Here is the 24th in our weekly series profiling players across the region. Each week a different player will reveal their best (and worst) moments. This week it is the turn of lethal Stocksbridge Park Steels striker Joe Lumsden.
Stocksbridge Park Steels striker Joe Lumsden
Name: Joe Lumsden
Age: 25
Current Club: Stocksbridge Park Steels
Previous club: Armthorpe Welfare
Day Job: Electrician
Based: Doncaster
Favourite Team: Newcastle United
All time favourite player and why: Lionel Messi, he’s simply the greatest to ever play the game and is the only player to leave me speechless.
Best mate in football: Josh Gibbons and Craig Aspinall at Armthorpe Welfare.
Description of career highlight: Getting back into football and signing for a top team in Stocksbridge.
Lowest moment in football: Snapping my ACL for the third time playing against Scarborough in 2012.
Description of most memorable match: For Armthorpe last season in the FA Cup against AFC Liverpool. Everyone had wrote us off. We were 3-1 down and we came back and won 4-3. I scored the 4th… unbelievable day.
First semi-professional manager: Des Bennett at Armthorpe Welfare. Top guy, I’d like to see him get back into football!
Description of first red card: Last season playing for Armthorpe, the first ever game my fiancée and family came to see me play in. I retaliated and swung a punch, just before signing for Stocksbridge which meant the move was held up… wasn’t a good start!
Joe Lumsden was sent off when his fiancée came to watch him play for Armthorpe for the first time in late 2015
Joe Lumsden is Stocksbridge’s top goal-scorer. Picture: Peter Revitt
Joe Lumsden in action for Stocksbridge during the 3-1 defeat at Market Drayton
Joe Lumsden turns away after scoring the winner for Stocksbridge at Romulus. Picture: Ian Revitt
Description of first goal and semi professional level: After not playing for two years through injury, I was asked to go on the bench for Armthorpe in the 2010 League Cup Final. They were loosing 3-0 to Dinnington and Des chucked me on and I scored within five minutes, I think we managed to bring it back to 3-2 but we still ended up getting beat. I think it was a six-yard tap in after a scramble in the box.
Description of favourite goal: The one that sticks out, I played the day after my grandad died last season for Stocksbridge against Chasetown. I scored and set one up in a 2-0 win. When I scored my dad was behind the goal, I ran up to him to celebrate with him, which was quite emotional.
What do you want to achieve in football in the future: Like most players, I want to play as high as I can, but I’d love to win a trophy with Stocksbridge or get promoted, but most of all I just want to enjoy playing.
Favourite Non League Ground to play at (barring your own club): Tough one this, definitely not Gresley, and can’t get any better than Stocksbridge, but if I had to choose I would go for Staveley in the NCEL. Seems like a proper well run club and I enjoyed playing there.
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