Kevin Allen (soccer player)

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Kevin Allen
Personnel
birthday March 22, 1961
place of birth Ryde ,  England
position External defense (left)
Juniors
Years station
Bournemouth AFC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1980 Bournemouth AFC 1 (0)
1980-1981 Oxford City
1981-1984 Poole Town
1984–? Newport IW
1 Only league games are given.

Kevin Allen (born March 22, 1961 in Ryde ) is a former English football player .

Career

The on the Isle of Wight -born Allen was one of the Apprentice (dt. Trainee) the nearby fourth-division AFC Bournemouth , before he ascended there in August 1979 to professionals. As a substitute behind Phil Ferns of the same age on the left full-back position , Allen came in the course of the 1979/80 season on March 1, 1980 in a 2-0 away defeat at Huddersfield Town for his only competitive game, at the end of the season he left the club.

In the following years Allen played for various clubs in non-league football . Together with his teammate Brian Benjafield , he moved to Oxford City in the Isthmian League for the 1980/81 season , the coaching team there consisted of world champion Bobby Moore and Harry Redknapp . After a year he moved to the Southern League at Poole Town , where he met Brian Chambers and John Evanson on two former Bournemouth teammates. In the FA Cup 1983/84 he reached the first main round with the club, where they failed in the replay at the third division AFC Newport County , Allen managed the consolation goal in the 1: 3 defeat.

In 1984 he returned to the Isle of Wight, played for Newport IW in the Hampshire League and from then on earned his living in Wootton Bridge as the operator of Appley Ltd , a supplier of plastic windows.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Allen in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Leigh Edwards: Life: A Bowl of Cherries - AFC Bournemouth Who's Who . Soccerdata, Nottingham 2015, ISBN 978-1-905891-97-9 , pp. 6 .
  3. ^ Peter Dunk: Rothmans Football Yearbook 1984-85 . Queen Anne Press, London 1984, ISBN 978-0-356-10446-1 , pp. 465 .
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryde