Rory Allen

Rory Allen
Personnel
Surname	Rory William Allen
birthday	17th October 1977
place of birth	Beckenham ,  England
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1992-1996	Tottenham Hotspur
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-1999	Tottenham Hotspur	21 (2)
1998	→  Luton Town  (loan)	8 (6)
1999-2002	Portsmouth FC	15 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1998	England U21	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Rory William Allen (born October 17, 1977 in Beckenham ) is a former English football player . The striker made 21 appearances for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League from 1996 to 1998 , ending his career at the age of 25 due to an injury.

Career

Allen, whose grandfather Des Quinn was a professional footballer at the end of the 1940s, was a member of Tottenham Hotspur while he was still at school, and in 1994 he signed with the club as a trainee . and formed a feared attacking duo with Neale Fenn in the youth team . In March 1996, he signed his first professional contract and moved into the Spurs matchday squad at the beginning of the 1996/97 season . After his competitive debut in the Premier League on September 4, 1996 against Wimbledon FC , he was three days later in the home game against Newcastle United in the starting line-up and scored the goal in the 1: 2 defeat. By the end of the season, Allen had two more goals in a League Cup game against Preston North End and in the 1-2 league defeat by Manchester United .

In March 1998 he was signed on the last day of the transfer on loan from the third division Luton Town , the coach David Pleat had contacts with Tottenham. At Tottenham, Allen had only made four league appearances during the season due to injury. On his debut for Luton, the club was penultimate place in the table, with six goals in eight appearances, Allen was mainly responsible for the fact that the club ended the season in 17th place in the table with seven points ahead of a relegation place.

Shortly after his professional debut, the Irish association reported an interest in which he would have been eligible to play due to his grandfather's origins. Ultimately, after his performance at Luton, he played his only three appearances in a national jersey in May 1998 as part of the Toulon tournament , when he was with the English U-21 national team at the side of the later national players Kieron Dyer , Jamie Carragher , Frank Lampard and Emile Heskey failed in the group stage.

In the 1998/99 season he was regularly on the substitute bench for Spurs, but behind the established strikers Chris Armstrong , Steffen Iversen and Les Ferdinand , he rarely got a chance under coach George Graham and played three games as a substitute in addition to five league appearances League Cup. In the summer of 1999 he moved to the second division club Portsmouth FC for a transfer fee of one million pounds , a record signing for Portsmouth. Allen's injury problems continued at Portsmouth as well, after two goals in his first three league appearances, he broke his left ankle a little later, in his comeback game in December 1999 against Sheffield United , he suffered the same injury in his right ankle and only came off Used again sporadically in mid-March. On the last day of the season, he scored his third goal of the season in a 3-1 defeat against Queens Park Rangers , it should also be his last competitive game.

Allen spent the next two years with numerous knee and ankle operations before ending his career in the headlines in November 2002. Annoyed by the ongoing injury problems, he sent a letter to his coach Harry Redknapp , informing him of his intention to terminate his contract - he waived the current salary of over £ 100,000 until the end of the season. At this point, Allen was already on his way to Australia to cheer on the English national cricket team on the Ashes Tour 2002/03 . A year later he also attended the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup in Australia. 15 months after his resignation, he is said to have asked his former coach Steve Claridge for a trial training session at his club Weymouth FC , but did not appear on the agreed date; Allen himself later denied having contacted Claridge. After his professional career, Allen worked for the British Foreign Office .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rory Allen in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
2. ^ Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC . Robwin Publishing House, West Cheshunt 2017, ISBN 978-0-9540434-2-1 , pp. 7th f .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} uk.sports.yahoo.com: Blast from the Past no.66: Rory Allen (March 14, 2017) , accessed July 6, 2019
4. ^ Roger Wash: Hatters Heroes: An A - Z of Luton Town players since 1946 . Newmarket 2008, ISBN 978-0-9560832-0-3 .
5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 13 .
6. ↑ chance . In: Sunday World (Dublin) , September 22, 1996, p. 71.  (link with costs)
7. ↑ MICK McCARTHY is keeping a watching . In: Irish Independent , September 28, 1996, p. 20.  (paid link)
8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 12 .
9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 13 .
10. ↑ Football: Allen Goes Walkabout to Watch the Ashes; NATIONAL ROUND-UP . In: The Birmingham Post , November 14, 2002  (paid link)
11. ↑ Cricket: The Battle for the Ashes: 2nd Test, at Adelaide Oval: Wanted: Rory Allen to Join the Barmy Army; Reward: He Could Even Get a Game . In: The Mirror , November 21, 2002  (paid link)
12. ^ So, What's the Story with Missing Rory? . In: The Evening Standard , January 16, 2004  (paid link)
13. ↑ ^{a b} 11freunde.de: "Money is not everything" (July 18, 2009) , accessed on July 6, 2019