Allan Jones (footballer, born 1940)

Allan Jones
Personal information
Full name Allan Powell Jones[1]
Date of birth (1940-01-06)6 January 1940
Place of birth Flint, Wales
Date of death September 1993 (aged 53)[1]
Place of death Ealing, England[1]
Playing position Full back
Youth career
1955–1957 Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1957–1963 Liverpool 5 (0)
1963–1970 Brentford 249 (3)
1970–1972 Croatia
National team
Wales Schoolboys

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Allan Jones was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a full back. He is best remembered for the seven years he spent in the Football League with Brentford, making over 280 appearances for the club. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015.[2]

Career

Liverpool

Jones began his career at Division Two side Liverpool, joining as an amateur in April 1955.[3] After two years in the youth team, Jones signed professional forms in April 1957.[3] He had to wait until December 1959 to make his first team debut, deputising for John Molyneux in a 4-0 victory over Cardiff City on 19 December, a match also notable for the fact that it was Bill Shankly's first in management at Anfield.[3] Jones went on to make only four further appearances for Liverpool, departing the club at the end of the 1962/63 season.[3]

Brentford

Jones signed for newly promoted Division Three side Brentford for a £5000 fee in August 1963.[4] He became an integral part of the team at left back, making 55 appearances during the 1963/64 season.[5] Jones took over the right back spot when Ken Coote retired in 1964 and averaged 35 league appearances per season until the 1969/70 campaign, when he made only 13 appearances in all competitions, mostly in a utility role.[4][6] He departed the Bees in the summer of 1970, having made 281 appearances and scored three goals for the club.[4][7]

Croatia

Jones signed a two-year deal with Australian club Croatia in 1970.

International career

Jones featured for the Wales Schoolboys team and his mid-1960s performances for Brentford drew the attention of the senior selectors, but he failed to win a call into a squad.[4]

Honours

As a player

Brentford

As an individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Barry Hugman's Footballers - Allan Jones". hugmansfootballers.com. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 Chris Wickham. "Kevin O'Connor and Marcus Gayle join others in being added to Brentford FC Hall of Fame". brentfordfc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Player profile. "Liverpool career stats for Allan Jones - LFChistory - Stats galore for Liverpool FC!". LFChistory. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Yore Publications. pp. 88, 89. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  5. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". Brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  6. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". Brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  7. ↑ "Brentford Football Club History". Brentfordfchistory.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  8. ↑ Haynes, Graham (1998). A-Z Of Bees: Brentford Encyclopaedia. Yore Publications. p. 82. ISBN 1 874427 57 7.


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