Reg Allen

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Reginald Arthur Allen (born 3 May 1919 in Marylebone, London, died April 1976) was a goalkeeper with QPR and Manchester United in the 1930s and 1940s.

Reg made his QPR debut against Newport County in December 1938 and was known as one of the best goalkeepers of his era. Reg went on to play 183 league games for QPR, his career impacted by the war years where he was a POW in North Africa. He was a member of the 1948 QPR that won the Third Division championship.

He was transferred to Manchester United in 1950 for a then world-record fee for a goalkeeper, but had retired from football within five years.

He died in April 1976, one month before what would have been his 57th birthday.