8th tier club sign jailed former EFL footballer

8th tier club Wantage Town sign jailed former EFL footballer player Chris Zebroski earlier this week in a bid to survive the drop.

The 35 year old striker joined the Southern League Division One Central outfit from Swindon Supermarine ahead of their derby at home to Didcot Town in which 403 people watched the away side win 1-0.

He was named in the starting lineup for that game, producing a flurry of chances but couldn’t turn them into much needed goals.

Next up for Wantage, they travel to Kidlington, with his side sitting 19th in the standings (relegation zone), picking up 9 points from 21 games played.

Wantage Town are delighted to announce the arrival for experienced striker @Chriszebroski . Chris joins us from Southern Prem side @SupermarineFC. #WelcomeChris pic.twitter.com/DowmAbYXya

— Wantage Town FC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 (@WantageTownFC) December 26, 2021

ZEBROSKI’S CAREER:

Zebroski was a youth player for his hometown club Swindon Town, but was released after failing to earn a professional contract.

After his release there he trained under the watch of former Wales international Steve Lowndes at Cirencester football academy, it was from here that he was spotted by scouts of then-Championship club Plymouth Argyle and signed as a youth player by the club. He later signed a professional contract, and made four first-team appearances for the Pilgrims before his contract was terminated after he was found guilty of gross misconduct by the club. This followed an incident involving the club captain Paul Wotton.

Three weeks after leaving Plymouth, he was signed for Millwall by manager Nigel Spackman, and on the 21st of March 2007, Zebroski joined Oxford United on a month’s loan.

On the 31st of July 2007, Zebroski signed for Conference National side Torquay United on loan until May 2008, and went on to score 19 goals in league and cup competitions during the 2007–08 season.

He was transferred to Wycombe Wanderers for £20,000 in June 2008 and finished the 2008–09 season with seven goals from 33 league matches, mostly from the wing, helping the team win promotion to League One.

The start of the 2009–10 season saw Zebroski score two goals in a 3–2 defeat at Charlton Athletic.

On the 20th of November 2009, Zebroski returned to the Gulls on loan with a view to permanent transfer in January and a year later, Zebroski was given a 12-month community order and fine for kicking and punching a soldier in a street fight in Torquay in August 2010. He scored twice in a 5–0 home win against Darlington on 12 December and the move later became permanent.

After helping the club avoid relegation from League Two during the 2009–10 campaign, Zebroski scored 16 league goals to help the club finish seventh and reach the play-offs the following season. In the semi-final first leg versus Shrewsbury at Plainmoor, Zebroski scored the first goal to set up a 2–0 victory. The second leg finished 0–0, leaving Torquay to play Stevenage in the play-off final at Old Trafford. Stevenage won the match 1–0. In July 2011 he followed former Torquay manager Paul Buckle to his new club, Bristol Rovers.

In August 2012 Zebroski joined Cheltenham Town. His contract with Cheltenham was cancelled by mutual consent on the 4th of January 2013 after Zebroski withdrew from the matchday squad at short notice on a number of occasions.

On Monday the 25th of February 2013, it was announced that Zebroski had joined Conference South side Eastleigh. He scored his first goal for the club in the 1–0 win over Eastbourne Borough on 2 March 2013.

On June 5th 2013, Zebroski signed for newly promoted League Two club Newport County. But in April 2015 he was jailed for 4 years and 4 months after he “admitted four charges of robbery, attempted robbery and assault relating to two incidents”.

Zebroski attributed the incidents to alcoholism, and failed in an appeal against the sentence. He served two years of his sentence at HMP Prescoed, and was released in 2017.

Following his release from prison, Zebroski rejoined Eastleigh in June 2017.

On the 8th of August 2019, Zebroski signed for National League South side Chippenham Town. He departed the club in May 2021.

Zebroski joined Hellenic Football League Division One side Malmesbury Victoria in August 2021, but less than one month later, he joined Southern Football League Premier Division South side Swindon Supermarine.
In December 2021 he transferred to Wantage Town.

Three years ago in June 2019, he was allegedly caught cheating by his wife who has outed him on his own Twitter account.

He was labelled a “cheating scum” with his wife posting his conversations with a woman named Layla, who the wife ends up calling a ‘ugly fat cunt’.

The wife on his profile also posted a photo of herself with a thumbs up, stating “How you feel when rat out your husband for cheating!” with some snake emojis.

She also put up screenshots of his explicit messages to the woman he is cheating with, for all to see.

His wikipedia page was also edited, it said his playing position was ’69 with fat Layla”.