Scott Rendell

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Scott Rendell
Personal information
Full name	Scott Rendell
Date of birth	21 October 1986 (1986-10-21) (age 22)
Place of birth	Ashford, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Peterborough United
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004 2004–2006 2005 2005–2006 2006 2006–2007 2007 2007–2008 2008 2008– 2008 2008–2009	Aldershot Town Reading → Aldershot Town (loan) → Forest Green Rovers (loan) → Hayes (loan) → Crawley Town (loan) Crawley Town Cambridge United → Peterborough United (loan) Peterborough United → Yeovil Town (loan) → Cambridge United (loan)	00 0(0) 00 0(0) 07 0(0) 16 0(2) 08 0(0) 21 0(8) 21 0(3) 29 (17) 10 0(3) 03 0(1) 05 0(0) 26 (13)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:02, 16 June 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Scott Rendell (born 21 October 1986) is an English footballer who plays for Peterborough United. His position is striker.

[edit] Career

Scott born in Ashford, Surrey but lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire, Rendell started his career with Staines Albion where he played until the age of 16. After Staines, Scott was signed to the books of Aldershot Town before joining nearby Reading. Unable to break into the Reading first team, he was loaned back to Aldershot, and had work experience loans at Forest Green Rovers and Hayes.^[1]

Rendell scored Forest Green's first ever goal as a professional football club on the opening day of the 2005/06 season, against Cambridge United, who he would later go on to sign for. He had a spell with Crawley Town initially on loan before making the move permanent until the end of the 2006/07 season before joining Cambridge United in the summer of 2007. Scott started the season as a substitute, but after an injury to fellow United striker Lee Boylan, he was given a first team opportunity and had scored 22 goals by mid-February.

On 18 February 2008, Rendell joined Cambridge's rivals, Peterborough United on loan with a view to a permanent transfer for a fee of £115,000. The move was made permament in May.^[2]

However, after failing to make an impact at London Road due to the success of the pairing of Craig Mackail-Smith and Aaron McLean, Rendell joined Yeovil Town on loan for one month. When this deal expired, he rejoined his former club, Cambridge United, on an initial loan until January 2009. This had appeared to have been renewed after discussions between the chairmans of both clubs until the end of the 2008/2009 season, with no recall clause.^[3] But it materialised that the financial demands that would result in his stay would be too great considering United's budget, and it was announced that Scott would be returning to Peterborough with immediate effect on 7th January 2009. On the 19th January 2009 it was announced the striker, whose on-off-on move has had fans baffled, will be at the Abbey for the rest of the season. Rendell went on to score a 119th minute winning goal against Stevenage Borough, that sent Cambridge into the Blue Square Premier play-of final ^[4]

This was ultimately the fatal crash of the Stevenage Destiny Train that ended it's journey for another season. Some Stevenage fans are hopeful of another ill-fated journey but alas they aren't realists like most football fans who can tell you right now that Stevenage have no chance at the 2009/10 Blue Square Premier play-offs.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Scott Rendell career stats at Soccerbase
• Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database

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