Craig Allardyce

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Craig Allardyce
Personnel
Surname Craig Samuel Allardyce
birthday June 9, 1975
place of birth Bolton ,  England
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
Preston North End
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993 Preston North End 1 (0)
1993-1994 Macclesfield Town 2 (0)
1994 Guangdong Hongyuan
1994 Northwich Victoria 0 (0)
1994-1996 Blackpool FC 1 (0)
1997 Rushden & Diamonds 1 (0)
1997-1998 Chorley FC
1998 Chesterfield FC 1 (0)
1998 Peterborough United 4 (0)
1998 Welling United 0 (0)
1998-2000 Mansfield Town 10 (0)
2000 Boston United 5 (1)
Leigh RMI 0 (0)
Kendal Town
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007-2009 Turton FC
1 Only league games are given.

Craig Samuel Allardyce (born June 9, 1975 in Bolton ) is a former English football player . The defender played 17 games in the lower division of the Football League for five different clubs between 1993 and 2000 , had several engagements in higher-class non-league football clubs and a brief interlude in China. In 2006, he and his father, longtime Premier League coach Sam Allardyce , were at the center of an alleged bribery scandal.

Player career

Allardyce was a trainee (German apprentice) at Preston North End when he came on April 6, 1993 as a substitute against Port Vale for his debut in the Football League Second Division . He was not accepted into the professional team at the end of the season and was hired in the Football Conference at Macclesfield Town . There the defender only made two appearances at the beginning of the season and left the club in the course of the season for China.

In 1994, professional football was officially introduced in China and the Guangdong Hongyuan club signed a number of relatively unknown English footballers for the premiere season. In addition to Allardyce, Richard Crossley , Ian Docker , Murray Jones and Darren Tilley were also in the Guangdong squad. Allardyce's guest appearance in China was short-lived. On his fifth appearance against Bayi FC on July 31, 1994, he got into a fight with opponent Hao Haidong on the pitch . The Chinese association then banned both players for half a year, which prompted Allardyce to return to England immediately. After a short stay at Northwich Victoria Allardyce was signed on a free transfer from Blackpool FC in September 1994 , the coach there was his father Sam Allardyce at the time .

Craig Allardyce stayed a little more than two years at Blackpool, but came in this time only to a single competitive game use for the professional team, on December 16, 1995 as a substitute for Bradford City . After the dismissal of his father at the end of the 1995/96 season, Allardyce's days were numbered at the club, which dissolved his contract in November 1996. On a contractless basis, Allardyce was presented to the fifth division Rushden & Diamonds from March 1997 and was used in the last game of the season against FC Altrincham , but no further engagement.

Allardyce continued his career at Chorley FC in the sixth-class Northern Premier League , which he led as captain. From March 1998 he was active on a contractless basis at Chesterfield FC in the Second Division , which had a bottleneck on the central defender position. Allardyce only made a two-minute appearance against the Wycombe Wanderers for the rest of the season . During the summer break, he completed a successful trial session under Barry Fry at fourth division Peterborough United , but left the club - after four starting eleven in the first few weeks - for fifth division Welling United in November . Just a month later, Allardyce moved again and was back under contract with a fourth division team through his employment at Mansfield Town . It was only at the end of March 1999 that he made the leap into the team and was used in six games before losing his place again to Mark Peters . Nevertheless, he received a contract for the 1999/2000 season, but remained behind the loan commitments Leigh Bromby and Jonathan Fortune only substitute players . After six missions during the season, including only one in the starting line-up, he joined Boston United in the Southern Football League from late March to May 2000 . His football career ended at Leigh RMI and Kendal Town .

further activities

After the end of his playing career, Craig Allardyce worked as a player advisor . Initially as an employee of the consultant Mark Curtis, he started his own business around 2004. Since Allardyce signed Tal Ben Haim and Joey O'Brien , both players of the Bolton Wanderers where his father was coach at the time, the club officials felt compelled to inform Craig Allardyce of any transfer activities related to the Exclude the association in order to avoid conflicts of interest. In September 2006, a BBC Panorama report hit the headlines alleging illegal player transfer payments, centered around Craig Allardyce and his father.

The Premier League had previously used John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington as an investigator on similar allegations . In its 2007 final report, referring to Craig Allardyce, it said that "no evidence or evidence of illegal payments was found," but the transfers of Ali al-Habsi , Tal Ben Haim and Blessing Kaku - all with the involvement of Craig Allardyce - remained unresolved . The investigators continued to believe "that there was a conflict of interest between Craig Allardyce, his father Sam Allardyce (then coach at Bolton Wanderers) and the club itself." Shortly after the publication of the Panorama report, Allardyce had given up his player agent license and thereby also evaded the association's investigations.

In 2007, he was also sued by an unlicensed advisor regarding the Bolton transfer from Idan Tal for nearly £ 70,000. The two parties finally settled out of court in June 2008 to pay around £ 20,000.

From 2007 to 2009 he was part of a coaching team at Turton FC , a club from the eleventh-class West Lancashire League .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b silkmenarchives.org.uk: Player Profiles - A , accessed July 29, 2017
  3. ↑ hongkongfootie.tumblr.com: CHINA 1994 , accessed July 29, 2017
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1996-97 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1996, ISBN 1-85291-571-4 , pp. 11 f .
  5. ↑ rdfc1992.com: Craig Allardyce (Aug 13, 2012) , accessed July 29, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 12 .
  7. ^ Matt Hill: Peterborough United Who's Who? Desert Island Books Ltd., Westcliff-on-Sea 2002, ISBN 978-1-874287-48-3 , pp. 8 .
  8. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 11 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 12 .
  10. ↑ bufc.drfox.org.uk: Allardyce, Academy (March 30, 2000) , accessed July 29, 2017
  11. ↑ bufc.drfox.org.uk: Wooding, Releases (May 10, 2000) , accessed July 29, 2017
  12. ↑ bufc.drfox.org.uk: Boston United's Season 1999/2000 , accessed August 18, 2020
  13. ↑ bufc.drfox.org.uk: Loan (Aug. 18, 2000) , accessed July 29, 2017
  14. ↑ thetelegraphandargus.co.uk: Guiseley are in the mire (March 15, 2001) , accessed July 29, 2017
  15. ↑ highbeam.com: Daily Mail (London): SPORTS AGENDA. (Column) (Feb. 13, 2002) ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  16. ↑ a b highbeam.com: Daily Mail (London): Bolton Put Block on Agent Son of Sam (Aug. 20, 2005) ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  17. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Agents claim manager was bribed (Sep. 19, 2006) , accessed on July 29, 2017
  18. ↑ theguardian.com: Allardyce and son accused in bung exposé (Sep. 20, 2006) , accessed on July 29, 2017
  19. ↑ telegraph.co.uk: Lord Stevens timeline (June 16, 2007) , accessed July 29, 2017
  20. ↑ theguardian.com: Key findings from the Stevens report (June 15, 2007) , accessed July 29, 2017
  21. ↑ theguardian.com: Three years on - why the FA has yet to break its silence on Panorama (June 24, 2009) , accessed July 29, 2017
  22. ↑ theboltonnews.co.uk: Football agent sues Craig Allardyce (November 27, 2007) , accessed on July 29, 2017
  23. ↑ highbeam.com: The People (London, England): Allardyce in agent pay-off. (Sport) (June 29, 2008) ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
personal data
SURNAME Allardyce, Craig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allardyce, Craig Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolton