Alan Devonshire
Devonshire in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Alan Ernest Devonshire | ||
| Date of birth | 13 April 1956 | ||
| Place of birth | Park Royal, Middlesex, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Maidenhead United (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1976 | Southall | ? | (?) |
| 1976–1990 | West Ham United | 358 | (29) |
| 1990–1992 | Watford | 25 | (1) |
| Total | 383+ | (30+) | |
| National team | |||
| 1980–1983 | England | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996–2003 | Maidenhead United | ||
| 2003–2011 | Hampton & Richmond Borough | ||
| 2011–2015 | Braintree Town | ||
| 2015– | Maidenhead United | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Alan Ernest Devonshire (born 13 April 1956) is an English former professional footballer who is the current manager of Maidenhead United. He was a wide midfielder who played for West Ham United, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1980, and Watford, where he finished his career in 1992. Devonshire won eight caps for England between 1980 and 1983. He subsequently became a manager with Maidenhead United, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Braintree Town.
Born in Park Royal, then a part of Middlesex, Devonshire had been a schoolboy footballer but had been turned away by Crystal Palace at age 14 for being too small. He returned to Selhurst Park two years later and played a couple of youth team games but was again released by the club, this time by former West Ham player and Palace manager, Malcolm Allison. Devonshire started playing for non-league Southall and in doing so came to the attention of league clubs such as Reading, Southampton, and Brentford. By day he worked as a fork-lift truck driver at the Hoover Factory in Perivale, Middlesex. During this time he was spotted playing for Southall by West Ham United scouts, Eddie Baily and Charlie Faulkner who recommended him to West Ham manager, Ron Greenwood. Devonshire signed for West Ham United in 1976 for a fee of £5,000, a transfer which has led to him being referred to as "West Ham's best ever buy".
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