Alan Ashman
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Alan Ashman | ||
| Date of birth | 30 May 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 30 November 2002 (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death | Walsall, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Sheffield United | |||
| – | Nottingham Forest | ||
| 1951–1957 | Carlisle United | 214 | (98) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1963–1967 | Carlisle United | ||
| 1967–1971 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| 1971–1972 | Olympiacos | ||
| 1972–1975 | Carlisle United | ||
| 1975–1977 | Workington | ||
| 1978–1979 | Walsall | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
George Alan Ashman (30 May 1928 – 30 November 2002) was an English association footballer, best remembered for some notable managerial successes.
Born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, Ashman had an undistinguished amateur playing career with Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest during the ad hoc competitions of the Second World War.
In 1951, he signed for Carlisle United for whom he made 207 appearances, scoring 98 goals. In 1958, suffering from cartilage damage, he retired from playing to manage the poultry farm of one of the club's directors. As a recreation, he managed amateur team Penrith and when Third Division Carlisle found themselves in need of a manager in February 1963, the club offered Ashman the job. During his playing career he played cricket for Cumberland in the 1956 Minor Counties Championship.
In 2009 Ashman was named at 18th in a list of Carlisle United's top 100 players, compiled by local newspaper the News and Star.
Ashman was too late to prevent that season's relegation but the following season saw a bounce back, and the season after that, the Third Division championship. Leading Division Two for much of the 1965–66 season, the club was disappointed to miss out on promotion by finishing third.
Ashman's exploits had not gone unnoticed and, in 1967, he joined West Bromwich Albion, leading them in a series of exciting cup runs, crowned by victory in the 1968 FA Cup. His new club was, however, impatient for further trophies and he was dismissed in 1971, hearing of the news from a waiter while on holiday in Greece.
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