Martin Allen

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Martin Allen
Personal information
Full name	Martin James Allen
Date of birth	August 18, 1965 (age 41)
Place of birth	Reading, England
Nickname	'Mad Dog'
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Milton Keynes Dons (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984-1989 1989-1995 1995-1997 1997-1998	Queens Park Rangers West Ham United Portsmouth Southend United	136 (16) 190 (25) 045 0(4) 005 0(0)
National team
1986-1987	England U21	002 0(0)
Teams managed
2002-2004 2004-2006 2006-present	Barnet Brentford Milton Keynes Dons
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Martin Allen (born August 18, 1965 in Reading, England) is a former footballer and currently manager of Milton Keynes Dons.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Management career 2.1 Reading 2.2 Barnet 2.3 Brentford 2.4 Milton Keynes Dons 3 Managerial stats 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

In his playing career, during which he was known as 'Mad Dog', he played for QPR, signing professional in 1983 and spending six years at Loftus Road and played in the 1986 League Cup Final against Oxford United, before a £670,000 move to West Ham. He played in their promotion teams of 1991 and 1993.

Allen stayed with the Hammers until 1995 when he made a £500,000 switch to Portsmouth after a successful loan spell at Fratton Park. After three frustrating years with Pompey, which took in a brief loan stint at Southend, he hung up his boots and began a coaching career. He was a combative midfield player.

His cousins, Paul Allen, Bradley Allen and Clive Allen were also footballers. His father Dennis Allen played for Reading as well as Charlton Athletic and Bournemouth and died in 1995 at the age of 56.

[edit] Management career

[edit] Reading

Allen began his management career assistant manager at Reading where he joined Alan Pardew when the Royals were in the relegation zone and in the following months the team produced championship form, winning 12 and drawing 4 of their closing 20 fixtures to secure a ten top finish.

[edit] Barnet

Allen's first full manager role was at Conference side Barnet, from August 2002 to March 2004 when he moved to League One side Brentford.

[edit] Brentford

Allen had a good run at Brentord, taking the team to the promotion play offs in both the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 season. At Brentford, he proved to be a very popular manager with the fans and an object of curiosity to opponents and media alike due to his unconventional managerial methods, which seem to have paid off due to the relative success Brentford had under him on a limited budget. For example, he participated in a 25 mile sponsored bike ride on November 2005 to raise funds for Brentford[1]. His efforts helped to raise over £17,000 for the club[2].

He also took Brentford to the fifth round of the FA Cup in two consecutive years, going out to Southampton in the 2004/2005 season, losing 3-1 after a 2-2 draw at St Mary's, and to Charlton 3-1 in the 2005/2006 season. He also was in charge of one of the major giant killings in the fourth round in the 05/06 season, beating Sunderland 2-1.

On May 30, 2006 Martin Allen announced his resignation as manager of Brentford, citing lack of Board commitment to investing in the team to take it up a peg.[3].

[edit] Milton Keynes Dons

He took up the managerial position at Milton Keynes Dons on 21 June 2006, where he has stopped a slide that saw the club relegated twice in three years.

[edit] Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Brentford		March 18, 2004	May 31, 2006	124	54	34	36	43.54
MK Dons		June 21, 2006	Present	44	22	13	9	50.00

[edit] External links

• Martin Allen management career stats at Soccerbase

	The Allen family tree
Les       Dennis   Ron*                                                           Clive   Bradley   Martin   Paul                                   Oliver
Family tree of the Allen family football players. All family members, except Ron, have played professional football.

Preceded by Peter Shreeves	Barnet Manager 2002 – 2004	Succeeded by Paul Fairclough
Preceded by Wally Downes	Brentford Manager 2004 – 2006	Succeeded by Leroy Rosenior
Preceded by Danny Wilson	Milton Keynes Dons Manager 2006 –	Succeeded by incumbent

Milton Keynes Dons F.C. - Current Squad
1 Bankole | 2 J. Smith | 3 Lewington | 4 Diallo | 6 O'Hanlon | 7 McGovern | 9 Platt | 10 McLeod | 12 Stirling | 13 Andrews | 14 G. Smith | 15 Edds | 16 Knight | 19 Taylor | 20 Wilbraham | 21 Hayes | 22 Hastings | 23 Dyer | 24 Lewis | 25 Harper | 31 Baines | 35 Page | 37 Howe | 38 Baldock | 39 Collins | 40 Thorne | 42 Nash | Manager: Allen