Sellars: Scott

1983-1986&1992-1993 (Player Details)

Left Midfield

Born: Sheffield: 27-11-1965

Debut v Shrewsbury Town (a): 07-05-1983

5’6” 10st 0lb (1986)

#91 in 100 Greatest LUFC Players Ever

A pupil of Hindle House, Sheffield, he joined Leeds as an apprentice and turned professional in July 1983 three months after he had made his League debut as a seventeen-year-old. Early performances with United suggested that Sellars had a big future in the game. He was one of a number of talented youngsters encouraged to play open football by Leeds Manager Eddie Gray, but he struggled with some of the more physical aspects of the game. After asking for a transfer he was sold to Blackburn Rovers in July 1986 and won a Full Members’ Cup Winners’ medal at Wembley in 1987. In 1987-88 he was capped by England Under-Twenty-ones against Scotland, France and Sweden. In 1991-92 he featured in Blackburn Rovers’ Second Division promotion campaign but before he could help to establish Rovers as a force in the EPL he returned to Leeds for £800,000 in July 1992. He played two hundred and two League games for Rovers, which included eight from the bench and scored thirty-five goals. In all games he netted forty-one times in two hundred and forty-five appearances. He always seemed to struggle with injuries in his second spell at Elland Road and found himself on the fringes of the action. In March 1993 he joined Newcastle United for £700,000 and quickly returned to the EPL as Kevin Keegan’s Magpies swept to the First Division title. Having been brought in to replace Kevin Sheedy, Scott, with his bright and inventive style of play, was able to conjure up that vital tackle or pass that would unlock the opposition defence, which became an important aspect of the promotion push to the Premiership. Once promoted, Sellars’ influence quickly helped the Newcastle squad to settle into the top-flight again. However fate was to deal a cruel blow as he suffered a terrible cartilage injury just when you would have said he was 'at the top of his game'. He was subsequently replaced by David Ginola. Competition at big-spending Newcastle was hot and in December 1995 Sellars was on the move again, this time going to Bolton Wanderers for £720,000. With Newcastle he had played sixty-one League games, of which five were from the bench and scored five goals. He also played three games in the FA Cup, six starts and one substitute appearances in the League Cup for two goals and he scored once in his four UEFA appearances. He could not prevent the Trotters from crashing out of the EPL, but he was a leading light making forty starts and another two from the bench as Wanderers bounced straight back as champions of the First Division. Unfortunately Wanderers again suffered immediate relegation and then failed to regain their EPL status, as they failed to win the play-offs. He spent almost four years at Bolton before leaving to join Huddersfield Town in July 1999 on a free-transfer. He played one hundred and eleven games in the League for the Trotters, including five as a substitute, scoring fifteen times. He spent almost two years with Huddersfield, making forty-eight League appearances, of which nineteen were as substitute, scoring just once. He left Town in April 2001 and went to Danish side Aarhus GF on a free-transfer, where he scored once in twenty appearances before returning to the Football League with Mansfield Town in March 2002 to help them in their promotion push. At Field Mill he scored three times in the League from seventeen starts and three more off the bench. He was then linked with a move to Non-League Kettering Town in the close season but re-signed for a further year. Although he started as a regular in the side in 2002-03, suspension and injury meant that he was only involved in coaching and working with the youngsters from November to the end of the season. His son was a junior attached to Sheffield United and he took up coaching the Blades juniors. He joined Chesterfield as a coach in 2004 and became Assistant Manager.