Danny Allen-Page

Danny Allen-Page
Personal information
Full name Danny Liam Allen-Page[1]
Date of birth (1983-10-30) 30 October 1983[2]
Place of birth London, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Playing position Defender / Midfielder
Youth career
Crystal Palace
000?–2002 Brentford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Brentford 0 (0)
2004–2006 Farnborough Town 55 (1)
2006–2007 Yeading 36 (0)
2007–2010 Hayes & Yeading United 111 (4)
2010 Hampton & Richmond Borough 12 (0)
2012 Merstham
Total 214 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Danny Liam Allen-Page (born 30 October 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Allen-Page started his career as a trainee with Brentford, making one first team appearance, before being released in 2004. He joined Farnborough Town and after two full seasons with them he left to join Yeading. They merged with Hayes in 2007 to form Hayes & Yeading United, with whom he won promotion to the Conference Premier in 2009. He was released a year later and joined Hampton & Richmond Borough, before having a spell with Merstham in 2012.

Career

Born in London,[2] Allen-Page played for Crystal Palace as a schoolboy and later became a trainee with Brentford in July 2002.[3][4] He made his first team debut as an 88th minute substitute in a 3–2 defeat to Peterborough United in the Football League Trophy on 4 November 2003.[5] His contract at Brentford was cancelled by mutual consent under new manager Martin Allen in March 2004,[6] after which he joined Football Conference team Farnborough Town.[7] He made his debut as a 23rd-minute substitute for James Deacons in a 3–0 away defeat to Margate and he finished the 2003–04 season with four appearances for Farnborough,[8][9] after which he signed a new one-year contract with the club.[10] He scored with a "stunning drive" to give Farnborough the lead against Accrington Stanley on 2 October 2004, with the match ending as a 2–1 home victory.[11] He finished the 2004–05 season with 31 appearances and one goal, while Farnborough were relegated to the Conference South,[12] after which manager Frank Gray exercised his option to extend Allen-Page's contract.[13] He made 23 appearances for Farnborough in the 2005–06 season, including an appearance in the play-off semi-finals.[14]

Allen-Page left Farnborough in July 2006 because of the instability at the club and he subsequently signed for Yeading.[15][16] He played for Yeading in a 5–0 defeat to Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on 11 November 2006 in the second round of the FA Cup.[17] He made 39 appearances for Yeading during the 2006–07 season.[18] Following the merger of Hayes and Yeading, Allen-Page joined the new club, Hayes & Yeading United.[16] He scored the opening goal for Hayes & Yeading against Dorchester Town in January 2008, which finished as a 2–2 draw.[19] He finished the 2007–08 season with 46 appearances and one goal for Hayes & Yeading.[20] Hayes & Yeading were promoted to the Conference Premier after the 2008–09 season, during which he made 45 appearances.[21] Allen-Page played as a right midfielder in Hayes & Yeading's first Conference Premier game, which finished as a 1–0 defeat to Kidderminster Harriers on 8 August 2009.[22] In the following match, Allen-Page scored Hayes & Yeading's first goal as a Conference Premier club with a 62nd-minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw at home to Stevenage Borough.[23] He finished the 2009–10 season with 38 appearances and three goals,[24] and was released by Hayes & Yeading on 7 May 2010.[25]

Allen-Page returned to playing in the Conference South after signing for Hampton & Richmond Borough during the summer of 2010.[26] He made 14 appearances for the club in the 2010–11 season before joining Merstham of the Isthmian League Division One South during the summer of 2012.[27][28]

Style of play

He was a right sided player who played as a right-back or midfielder,[15][29][30] and has been described as being "one of the best in the league at his job".[30]

Career statistics

Club statistics
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Brentford 2003–04[9] Second Division 0000001[lower-alpha 1]010
Farnborough Town 2003–04[8] Football Conference 4000—0040
2004–05[12] Conference National 29110—1[lower-alpha 2]0311
2005–06[14] Conference South 22000—1[lower-alpha 3]0230
Total 55110—20581
Yeading 2006–07[18] Conference South 36010—2[lower-alpha 2]0390
Hayes & Yeading United 2007–08[20] Conference South 40140—2[lower-alpha 2]0461
2008–09[21] Conference South 35040—6[lower-alpha 4]0450
2009–10[24] Conference Premier 36310—1[lower-alpha 2]0383
Total 111490—901294
Hampton & Richmond Borough 2010–11[27] Conference South 12020—00140
Career total 2145130001402415
  1. ↑ Appearance in Football League Trophy
  2. 1 2 3 4 Appearance(s) in FA Trophy
  3. ↑ Appearance in Conference South play-offs
  4. ↑ Two appearances in Conference League Cup, three in FA Trophy, one in Conference South play-offs

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/08/2010 and 31/08/2010" (PDF). The Football Association. p. 1. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Hugman, Barry J., ed. (2004). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005. Queen Anne Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85291-660-2.
  3. ↑ Flood, Tony (25 March 2004). "Brentford will be without boss Allen if Barnet win court battle". Richmond & Twickenham Times. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Danny Allen-Page". BeezNeez. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Peterborough 3–2 Brentford". BBC Sport. 4 November 2003. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "Allen continues clearout". BBC Sport. 28 April 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "Bees duo join Farnborough". BBC Sport. 25 March 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  8. 1 2 Williams, Mike; Williams, Tony, eds. (2004). Non League Club Directory 2005. Tony Williams Publications. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-1-869833-49-7.
  9. 1 2 "Games played by Danny Allen-Page in 2003/2004". Soccerbase. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "Farnborough duo given deals". BBC Sport. 25 May 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "Farnborough 2–1 Accrington". BBC Sport. 2 October 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  12. 1 2 "Danny Allen-Page season details 2004/2005". Leyton Orient Mad. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  13. ↑ "Eleven go at Farnborough". Non-League Daily. 9 May 2005. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  14. 1 2 "Player Details: Season 2005–2006". SoccerFactsUK. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  15. 1 2 "More leave Boro". Non-League Daily. 12 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  16. 1 2 "First Team Squad". Hayes & Yeading United F.C. Archived from the original on 30 May 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  17. ↑ "Nottingham Forest 5–0 Yeading". BBC Sport. 11 November 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  18. 1 2 "Player Details: Season 2006–2007". SoccerFactsUK. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  19. ↑ "Hayes & Yeading 2–2 Dorchester Town". SoccerFactsUK. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  20. 1 2 Williams, Mike; Williams, Tony, eds. (2008). Non-League Club Directory 2009. Tony Williams Publications. pp. 376–377. ISBN 978-1-869833-59-6.
  21. 1 2 Williams, Tony; Wright, James, eds. (2009). Non-League Club Directory 2010. Tony Williams Publications. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-1-869833-66-4.
  22. ↑ "Kidderminster 1–0 Hayes & Yeading". BBC Sport. 8 August 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  23. ↑ "Hayes & Yeading 1–1 Stevenage". BBC Sport. 11 August 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  24. 1 2 Williams, Tony; Wright, James, eds. (2010). Non-League Club Directory 2011. Tony Williams Publications. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-1-869833-68-8.
  25. ↑ "Hayes manager Haylock releases eleven players". BBC Sport. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  26. ↑ Clark, Gary (14 August 2010). "Preview: Hampton & Richmond Borough v Dartford". Dartford F.C. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  27. 1 2 Williams, Mike; Williams, Tony, eds. (2011). Non-League Club Directory 2012. Tony Williams Publications. pp. 296–297. ISBN 978-1-869833-70-1.
  28. ↑ "Bird happy with how squad looks". Croydon Advertiser. 19 July 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  29. ↑ "Two sign – but Boro release Beall". Non-League Daily. 22 May 2004. Archived from the original on 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
  30. 1 2 "Yeading aim to fell Forest". BBC Sport. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
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