Robert Kean

Robert Kean

At the start of the 1997/98 season, Luton Town manager Lennie Lawrence was suffering a horrendous injury crisis culminating in only 14 players being available for an away trip to Bristol City at the end of September.

Of those 14, four would be making their League debuts including Rob Kean who came on as substitute for skipper Gary Waddock. Luton born, and a member of the successful youth squad at Kenilworth Road which won the South East Counties championship in consecutive seasons, Kean was a promising midfielder but he did not get the opportunity to add to his solitary appearance being released the following summer.

Rob became an aircraft engineer and turned out for Hemel Hempstead and Stevenage in subsequent years.