Lee eyes change in fortunes - exclusive

Last updated : 11 August 2005 By Andy Parsons

The former Hartlepool defender has never let Wednesday down although his injury problems in the last two years have hampered his progress.

He came into the season still lacking match-fitness but he was thrown in at the deep end against Stoke on Saturday and Hull on Tuesday because of the club's current injury crisis and played well alongside Richard Wood.

He told Footymad: "I got through the Stoke game, that’s the main thing. I had a feeling I would be playing though after Graham Coughlan got injured and in honesty it’s perhaps a little early for me as I have only had one full 90 minutes previously, and that was at York (where Wednesday lost 2-1) – and that wasn’t exactly great preparation!

"But leading up to the Stoke game I was excited and looking forward to the start of the season and I was delighted to be out there. We kept a clean sheet, I know they missed a penalty but we did our job well at the back to get a good point away from home - but we have to have more believe in ourselves in the way we go at teams.

"I have had so many injuries while I have been here," Lee admits, while obviously hoping for a change in fortune. "I have had a run in the first team, got injured, had another run and then got injured again and I am so desperate to get a full season.

"My first season here I started well and I played until January and it all went down hill from there – same happened last season but hopefully that’s behind me now and I can get a full season under my belt."

Meanwhile, Wednesday have been linked with a move to bring in the much-travelled veteran Steve Claridge after Leon Best went back to Southampton with a broken foot.