Bill Lee was one of those footballers who passed under the radar for most of his career <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He played mainly for one club but towards the end of his career he drifted around a variety of football clubs <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the start of his career he could be found as a goalkeeper as he was just over six foot tall and is remembered as a spectacular goalkeeper who was capable of making astonishing saves<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However there were flaws to his play as he tended to stay on his line and left all but the obvious crosses to his defenders <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However as goalkeeping evolved and the sweeper keeper became popular Bill Lee was found out and found that his style of keeping was all but redundant <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Bill Lee had another option as he was a capable striker and when playing up front scored his fair share of goals <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He once scored four goals in a game and then followed it up a few weeks later with another four goals both against strong opposition <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirteen goals in seven games and September had not run its course but any chance of increasing this impressive total were ruined when Bill Lee suffered a serious training injury <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He did not play again to March but his goals had dried up and he was often to be found as a substitute <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This continued for nearly a season until George Cousins the new manager saw something in Bill Lee that nobody else had spotted<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strangely enough it was after Bill Lee had been sent off for a particularly gruesome foul which saw him banned for eight matches <\/p>\n\n\n\n
George converted Bill Lee to a full back not so much on his favoured right foot but mainly on the left<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was here that Bill Lee found his groove and he played there for a number of seasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This said he was often in trouble with the authorities due to his physical style of play and collected red and yellow cards frequently<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to his appearance he soon was given the nickname Animal which persists to this day <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it was not all physical as when on the ball Bill Lee was very elegant and his passing was normally without fault <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He put this down to playing on his left foot which for some reason he said gave him thinking time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bill Lee was also very effective when sweeping up behind his centre backs as having once been a goalkeeper he was aware of the disciplines required<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When George left the club Bill Lee also left in protest and retired soon afterwards stating that he was unhappy with the direction that football was going<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stated that football was once a mans game played by real men but had been diluted by those who did not understand the game <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rules had become confusing and referees no longer ran game with any common sense <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full Backs were now expected to play like wingers and abandon their primary duties <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was not the game he knew so he just walked away at the end of his final contract <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bill Lee now lives in Cornwall with his wife Jane where he owns a gallery that showcases local artists <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Occasionally he is seen at football matches often with George and has played in the occasional charity match as he has retained his fitness due as he notes to the savage Cornish hills <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bill Lee Nom-Ates to my calculations played in over one thousand games and scored eighty-six goals <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was sent off on fourteen separate occasions <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was never capped for his country as he was openly critical of the manager who he did not think was up to standard <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bill Lee was once suspended along with George for walking out of a disciplinary hearing as he considered that he was being punished unfairly <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was suspended for twelve weeks because of this and gave his full salary to charity during that period and suggested that the authorities match him<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George resigned from their club at the end of the season as he did not think that they had supported them during this troublesome period<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was once asked to write a book about himself but declined as he thought nobody would be interested in him <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what is not widely known is that Bill Lee does indeed write but always uses his pen name Stuart Miller Osborne <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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