Lee Smelt
# Lee Smelt

Lee Adrian Smelt (born 13 March 1958) is an English former footballer and author of a goalkeeping coaching book (Practice Keeping: An elite goalkeeper development plan for under 9 to under 21s). A goalkeeper, he played professionally for Nottingham Forest, Peterborough United, Halifax Town, Cardiff City and Exeter City, making a total of 175 appearances in the Football League between 1980 and 1986.

After Cardiff, Lee then went to non-league Maidstone United and from there played at Welling United, Thanet United and Hythe Town. Lee was player-assistant manager in latter part of his time at Hythe Town and returned to former club Margate as Manager in 1991.

He left football in 1992 to join the police. He was as of 2018, the Academy Goalkeeping Coach (U9-23) at Charlton Athletic.

His son Jack was a goalkeeper and for a short period in his career followed in his fathers footsteps as a ‘keeper for Margate.

