Joe Allon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Ball Allon | ||
| Date of birth | 12 November 1966 | ||
| Place of birth | Gateshead, England | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1987 | Newcastle United | 9 | (2) |
| 1987–1988 | Swansea City | 34 | (12) |
| 1988–1991 | Hartlepool United | 112 | (48) |
| 1991–1992 | Chelsea | 14 | (2) |
| 1992 | → Port Vale (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1992–1994 | Brentford | 45 | (19) |
| 1993 | → Southend United (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Port Vale | 23 | (9) |
| 1995 | Lincoln City | 4 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | Hartlepool United | 56 | (19) |
| Total | 306 | (111) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Joseph Ball Allon (born 12 November 1966) is an English former footballer. A striker, he scored 112 goals in 300 league games in a 14-year career in the Football League.
Starting his career with Newcastle United in 1984, he failed to break into the first team and moved on to Swansea City three years later. After a season with the "Swans" he signed with Hartlepool United. After scoring 50 league goals for the club he transferred to Chelsea in 1991. After a season with Chelsea, including a loan spell with Port Vale, he joined Brentford. In 1994, he moved back to Port Vale permanently, before moving back to Hartlepool United via Lincoln City in 1995. He retired in 1998. He won three promotions with three different clubs, and was voted onto the Fourth Division PFA Team of the Year in 1990–91.
A forward, Allon started his professional career with Newcastle United in 1984, at a time when Jack Charlton was manager at St James' Park. At the end of 1984–85 he starred in the FA Youth Cup final victory over Watford, in which Paul Gascoigne scored a wonder goal. Allon scored twice in nine First Division games in 1985–86 and 1986–87, before manager Willie McFaul moved him on to Swansea City in August 1987. Terry Yorath's "Swans" won promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1987–88 after beating Torquay United 5–4 on aggregate in the play-off final. During the season Allon also scored against rivals Cardiff City in the South Wales derby, in a 2–2 draw at Vetch Field on New Year's Day. He scored twelve times in 40 league and cup appearances in a partnership with Colin Pascoe, before he returned to the North-East to join Hartlepool United in November 1988, as one of Bobby Moncur's first signings as manager.
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