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Clive Allen

Clive Allen
Clive Allen 2016.jpeg
Allen in 2016
Born Clive Darren Allen
(1961-05-20) 20 May 1961 (age 55)
Stepney, Middlesex, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Association football career
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Havering/Essex Schools
Romford Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1980 Queens Park Rangers 49 (32)
1980 Arsenal 0 (0)
1980–1981 Crystal Palace 25 (9)
1981–1984 Queens Park Rangers 87 (40)
1984–1988 Tottenham Hotspur 105 (60)
1988–1989 Bordeaux 19 (13)
1989–1991 Manchester City 53 (16)
1991–1992 Chelsea 16 (7)
1992–1994 West Ham United 38 (17)
1994–1995 Millwall 12 (0)
1995 Carlisle United 3 (0)
Total 407 (194)
National team
1980 England U21 3 (0)
1984–1988 England 5 (0)
Teams managed
2007 Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
2008 Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Football career
Career information
Status Retired
Position(s) Placekicker
Career history
As player
1997 London Monarchs
Career highlights and awards
Records The Football Database
Career stats
PAT 7/10
FG 6/6
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Havering/Essex Schools
Romford Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1980 Queens Park Rangers 49 (32)
1980 Arsenal 0 (0)
1980–1981 Crystal Palace 25 (9)
1981–1984 Queens Park Rangers 87 (40)
1984–1988 Tottenham Hotspur 105 (60)
1988–1989 Bordeaux 19 (13)
1989–1991 Manchester City 53 (16)
1991–1992 Chelsea 16 (7)
1992–1994 West Ham United 38 (17)
1994–1995 Millwall 12 (0)
1995 Carlisle United 3 (0)
Total 407 (194)
National team
1980 England U21 3 (0)
1984–1988 England 5 (0)
Teams managed
2007 Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
2008 Tottenham Hotspur (caretaker)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Clive Darren Allen (born 20 May 1961) is a retired English footballer, who played as a forward for seven different London clubs.

He started his career at Queens Park Rangers in the late 1970s, and scored 32 league goals in 49 appearances, before moving to Arsenal.

Allen signed for Arsenal in the summer of 1980 for a fee of £1.25m, but he did not play a single competitive match (although he did play three matches in Arsenal's 1980–81 pre-season friendly campaign). He shortly moved on to Crystal Palace in a swap deal with Kenny Sansom.

Allen was Palace's top scorer for the 1980–81 season with nine goals in the league and 11 in all competitions, when Palace finished bottom of the First Division.

QPR, still in the Second Division, were now managed by Terry Venables (who had signed Allen for Palace) and in Allen's first season back at the club (1981–82) he scored 13 Second Division goals, though not enough to win promotion. QPR also had their most successful FA Cup run, reaching the FA Cup Final for the first time with Allen scoring the goals in 1–0 victories in both the 6th Round (vs Crystal Palace) and semi-final (vs West Bromwich Albion).

Over the next two seasons, Allen scored 27 League goals as QPR first won the Second Division Championship in 1982–83 and then finished fifth in the First Division in 1983–84. He moved to Tottenham for a £700,000 fee.

Allen scored twice on his debut on 25 August 1984, a 4-1 away win at Everton, and scored 10 goals from 18 appearances in his first season, in which Spurs finished third behind Liverpool and Everton.


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