Alan Willey (soccer player, 1941)

Alan Willey
Personnel
birthday	September 16, 1941
place of birth	Exeter ,  England
date of death	April 2017
Place of death	York ,  England
position	Half-striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Exeter City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1960	Bridgwater Town
1960-1966	Oxford United	114 (46)
1966-1967	Millwall FC	10 0(0)
	Durban City
	Banbury United
	Witney Town
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Willey (born September 16, 1941 in Exeter , † April 2017 in York ) was an English football player .

Career

Willey belonged to Exeter City as a youth (as a so-called ground staff boy ), but he started his career in the men's field at Bridgwater Town in the Western League . In November 1960 he played with Bridgwater in the FA Cup against Oxford United from the Southern League . Despite losing 2-1 with his team, he had impressed Oxford officials so much that he was signed for a £ 300 transfer back in December. At Oxford he had to be content with being a reservist, Tony Jones mostly occupied the position of the left - wing striker when he won the championship in 1960/61 , Willey only made his competitive debut in March 1961 in a draw with Yeovil Town . After Jones was withdrawn from Arthur Turner to the position of the left winger for the following season , Willey established himself as a half-forward. In 27 league games in the 1961/62 season he scored 23 goals, making him the second top scorer of his team behind center forward Bud Houghton when Oxford United not only successfully defended the Southern League championship, but was also elected to the Football League Fourth Division .

In the new league scoring Willey on Matchday 2 against Lincoln City in a 2: 1 victory the first goal in the domestic Manor Ground , in April 1963 also he succeeded with a 3: 0 win against Mansfield Town a hat trick . After the team had finished in the first two seasons in the Football League in 18th place (of 24 teams), succeeded in the season 1964/65 as fourth in the table of promotion to the third division . There Willey scored six goals in 14 appearances, including one as the historically first substitute for Oxford, before moving to London club Millwall in March 1966 . With Millwall, Willey rose to the Second Division at the end of the season , but only came to the train sporadically and in 1967 he joined the South African club Durban City . The attacker ended his career in the early 1970s in the Southern League at Banbury United and Witney Town .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alan Willey in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
2. ^ ^{A b} Martin Brodetsky: The Who's Who of Oxford United . The Derby Books Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-990-4 , pp. 356 .
3. ^ Leigh Edwards: The Official Centenary History of the SOUTHERN LEAGUE . Paper Plane Publishing, Halesowen 1993, ISBN 978-1-871872-08-8 , pp. 78 .