MK Dons' manager Scott Lindsey has been through unspeakable loss in his career and has come out the other side a relentlessly positive person
MK Dons' manager Scott Lindsey has been through unspeakable loss in his career and has come out the other side a relentlessly positive personTo a casual observer, a lot seems to have gone right for Scott Lindsey over the last decade. He progressed from a coaching job to his first senior managerial role at non-league Chatham Town. He left to becomein January 2023, Lindsey decided to take the reins at Crawley Town, the club then 89th in the Football League ladder.
The point is this: you would not guess what Scott Lindsey has been through, and Scott Lindsey has been through plenty. His story, of a guy with a dream to be a head coach for two decades who finally saw it realised, would be endearing anyway. In this case, it’s extraordinary. Scott’s Mum Jean helped out with the girls as much as she could and was, in Scott’s own words, entirely adored by his three children. But Jean also suffered from health problems. In 2022, at the age of 73, she also passed away from cancer and Lindsey had lost his complete family network.
Football became a form of escape but also a dose of normality. Having been a player, an academy coach, a first-team coach, an assistant manager and a manager, what other way to clear your head than football? For all that football has helped Scott, he must surely be able to cut through some of the bluster? If you needed a way of putting sport – even one that provides your livelihood – into perspective, he has experienced it.
That’s partly explained by the desire to make the most of rare opportunities and is shared by plenty in the game. If you play your last Football League match in 1995 and have to wait until 2022 for your first Football League game as a manager, you’re going to commit everything to it. Scott’s Dad Keith used to say something on repeat to him: “You’ll only ever get out of football what you put in”.
“Now you’ve asked me that question too, I wonder if, without really knowing it, that’s what I have done to myself because I’ve lost good people at young ages. What’s the point in not going for it and what’s the point in waiting?” The things that matter most, though, are going well. Scott has met someone and he and partner Kelly are now living together. Kelly has three children, Scott has three and, with his mother-in-law also with them, theirs is now a nine-person household. It’s busy and vibrant, just as Scott likes it.
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