BenStrevens

Former player

About Ben

Young striker signed on loan from Barnet with defender Lee Gledhill. Scored twice in his five appearances for the side and has gone on to become a prominent player for Dagenham & Redbridge in both the Conference and League Two.

Strevens began his career at Wingate & Finchley and in the 1998–99 season in the Isthmian League Division Three he scored 28 league goals coming joint second in the top scorers chart, helping the side to promotion. He was then signed by Barnet.

He was then loaned out to Slough Town and then to St Albans City, before becoming a regular first team player for The Bees. He made 41 appearances in 2005–06 season for the Football League side, by which point he was their longest serving player, but left the club at the end of the season, having scored 42 career goals for the club.

He was the only player in the Barnet squad to be relegated to the Conference National in 2000–01 season, and then be re-promoted back into the Football League in 2004–05. He was picked up on free transfer by Crawley Town and scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Rushden & Diamonds

Strevens suffered a fractured cheek bone and damaged eye socket in Crawley's 3–2 defeat to Lewes in an FA Cup game in 2006.

He signed for Dagenham & Redbridge in December 2006, whom he was promoted with at the end of the 2006–07 season into League Two. At the end of the 2008–09 season he signed for Brentford, along with Dagenham team-mates Danny Foster and Sam Saunders.