Alan Boswell
Alan Henry Boswell (born August 8, 1943 in West Bromwich , † August 24, 2017 in Shrewsbury ) was an English football player .
Athletic career
Boswell started his adult career at FC Walsall , with whom the goalkeeper started in the second-rate Second Division . After relegation to the third division in the summer of 1963, he moved to Shrewsbury Town , who also played in the third division . Here he ran up to 1968 in 222 league games before the Wolverhampton Wanderers brought him to the First Division . He only played ten games for the club, including a 6-0 defeat against Liverpool . Therefore, he was given to the then second division Bolton Wanderers after just one season , where he guarded the gate for three years. In 1972 he joined the third division club Port Vale before ending his career at Oswestry Town in non-league football . There he also worked as a trainer in the late 1970s.
Boswell was one of the first English goalkeepers to use goalkeeper gloves in the 1960s . At the World Cup finals in 1966 , he attended a game of the Soviet Union in Roker Park and was enthusiastic about Lev Ivanovich Yashin , who - as was common in Eastern Europe at the time - was equipped accordingly. Roswell's mother or wife sewed the gloves using rubbers for table tennis bats . He also bought his own bottle-green goalkeeper jersey, including black shorts and socks, the color of which was based on Jaschin's outfit.
Individual evidence
- ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Alan Boswell , accessed June 29, 2020
- ↑ a b "Castigated - But Definitely A Visionary - Strange Ways Of Strong-Minded Keeper"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boswell, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boswell, Alan Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Bromwich |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2017 |
| Place of death | Shrewsbury |