Alan Blackburn
| Alan Blackburn | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | 4th August 1935 | |
| place of birth | Pleasly , England | |
| date of death | January 14, 2014 | |
| Place of death | Telford , England | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| West Ham United | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1954-1957 | West Ham United | 15 (3) |
| 1957-1961 | Halifax Town | 124 (35) |
| 1961-1965 | Margate FC | |
| 1965-1968 | Wellington Town | |
| Knightley | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Alan Blackburn (born August 4, 1935 in Pleasly , Derbyshire , † January 14, 2014 in Telford ) was an English football player .
Career
Blackburn, who grew up in an orphanage run by Barnardo's charity , was discovered as a youth footballer in Hertfordshire by spies from London club West Ham United . At the age of 17, Blackburn signed his first professional contract with West Ham and caused a sensation in the 1953/54 season when he scored 13 goals in the FA Youth Cup and won the title in the London Combination with the reserve team . In December 1954 he made his competitive debut for the professional team in the Second Division against Derby County , but further missions were limited due to his military service beginning in March 1955. He came to a number of missions only towards the end of the 1955/56 season, when he was called up in six games between March 30 and April 28 and also scored two goals.
After a total of 17 competitive games and 3 goals Blackburn moved in November 1957 for a transfer of £ 7,000 in the Third Division North to Halifax Town . At the end of his first season with Halifax he qualified for the new single-track Third Division , until his departure at the end of the 1960/61 season he was regularly used and scored 35 goals in 124 league games. In the summer of 1961, the striker switched to non-league football and joined FC Margate with play in Division One of the Southern Football League . Blackburn, who had a strong left shot and the ability to "stand" in the air with headers, was the team's top scorer in three seasons at Margate. Highlights of his four-year stay were a goal in a 3-0 first-round win in the 1961 FA Cup / 62 against third division club Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and promotion to the Premier Division of the Southern League in 1963.
In the summer of 1965 Blackburn left Margate after 121 goals in 211 competitive games after a doctor recommended moving to a more northerly area to treat his sick daughter. He continued his footballer career for three years in the Southern League at Wellington Town before he let his career at Knightley end in 1968 . Blackburn's job was in the window cleaning business. During his time at Margate, he ran such a company with his teammate Bob Harrop , and later he was also a partner in a company in Telford .
literature
- Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 28 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alan Blackburn - 1935-2014 ( January 16, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 21, 2014
- ^ Barry J. Hugman: Football League Players Records 1946-92 . Tony Williams Publications, North Curry 1992, ISBN 1-869833-20-1 , pp. 61 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blackburn, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pleasly , Derbyshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2014 |
| Place of death | Telford , England |