Lee Fowler

Lee Anthony Fowler (born 10 June 1983) is a Welsh professional football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder.

He earned 12 Wales Under-21 caps.

He is the manager of Flint Town United.

Fowler's career has taken in stints at an array of clubs within the English game; considered a journeyman, he has notably played in the Football League for Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Fleetwood Town, Doncaster Rovers and latterly Crawley Town.

Huddersfield qualified for the play-offs, but Fowler was uninvolved for the semi-final legs over Lincoln City, however Town progressed and Fowler came on as an 85th-minute substitute for Jonathan Worthington in the final at the Millennium Stadium against Mansfield Town.

However the game has gone to extra time and then penalties meaning Fowler would have a full 35 minutes on the field, including scoring the winning penalty that earned his club promotion to League One.

Fowler joined the ranks at English Premier League side Coventry City in the 1999–2000 season.

The club at the time were managed by Gordon Strachan, and Fowler was amongst the Sky Blues squad for the club's final two appearances in the top flight of English football.

At the end of the 2000–01 season, City were relegated along with Manchester City and Bradford City.

However Fowler would not make a single appearance for the club in the top flight, and did not make his professional debut until the following season when Strachan's replacement as manager, Roland Nilsson gave him his first opportunity bringing him on as a substitute to replace Barry Quinn in the 68th minute of a league defeat at home to Burnley on 17 November 2001.

Fowler would go on to make 13 appearances for Coventry during the 2001–02 season.

During the 2002–03 season, City had replaced Nilsson with Gary McAllister and this saw Fowler only feature three times in the entire season.

He went on to score his first senior goal in football, coming in an FA Cup tie with Cardiff City on 15 January 2003.

During the summer of 2003, Fowler was placed on the loan list and joined Huddersfield Town for an initial three-month period.

He made his Town debut on the opening day of the 2003–04 League Two campaign against Cambridge United.

Fowler went on to make 19 appearances in all competitions during his loan spell in West Yorkshire, and on 13 November 2003 he was released from his Coventry contract thus allowing him to join with Huddersfield on a permanent basis.

Fowler would go on to make a further 19 appearances for Town following his switch, scoring no goals, but collecting a tally of 8 yellow cards, and 2 red cards during his season.

The following season Fowler played a cameo role in the club's 2004–05 season, and finished the campaign having featured 23 times in all competitions, scoring one with a further 4 yellow cards and 1 red card to add to his disciplinary tally.

In June 2005 he joined Grimsby Town on trial along with a handful of other players hoping to earn a contract at Blundell Park.

However, despite playing in 4 pre-season friendlies, as well as joining the Grimsby squad in a pre-season Army training camp, Fowler was snubbed a full-time contract with boss Russell Slade signing Ciaran Toner, Paul Bolland and Jean-Paul Kamudimba Kalala to play in Fowler's central midfield role.

He returned to Huddersfield and predictably started the 2005–06 season out of favour.

In November 2005, after not making a single appearance so far that season, Fowler joined Scarborough on loan.

He joined debt riddled Conference National side Scarborough on loan in November 2005, sealing Fowler's first taste of Non-League football.

Fowler was brought to the club by Neil Redfearn, and would only play for The Seadogs for one season, making 25 appearances and scoring 3 goals.

Following the crippling debt at the McCain Stadium, Scarborough found it near impossible to stay in the Conference and were relegated to the Conference North division.

The money troubles and demotion meant that the club culled all but a few of its playing staff for the following season.

Fowler was one of the players who left Scarborough at the end of their final season inside the top 5 leagues in English football.

Under a year after Fowler left, the club eventually went bust and became defunct.

In the summer of 2006, Fowler was signed by Nigel Clough for Burton Albion.

Fowler would go on to make 23 appearances for The Brewers, scoring once during the 2006–2007 season.

He subsequently signed with Welsh outfit Newport County on a loan deal until the end of the season.

At the end of the campaign, Fowler was released.

Following a fruitful short loan spell in the previous season, Fowler signed a one-year deal with Newport County playing in the Conference South division.

Fowler made 34 appearances for County, scoring 4 goals.

At the end of the 2007–2008 season, he left the club.

Fowler moved back up a league and returned to the Conference National to sign with Jim Harvey and his Forest Green Rovers side.

Fowler played out the entire 2008–09 season with the club, making a total of 46 appearances in all competition, scoring a single goal, coming in a league encounter with Weymouth.

On 2 June 2009, Fowler turned down the chance of renewing his contract with Forest Green and signed for Kettering Town on a two-year contract.

Fowler signed for Kettering and made his debut for the play-off pushing side against his former club Forest Green on the opening day of the 2009–10 campaign.

Following the departure of his manager Mark Cooper, who had moved to join Peterborough United, Fowler became increasingly unsettled at the club, and publicly expressed his desire to leave the club, commenting he did not want to play for the club.