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Milestone Birthday for Former QPR Player; former QPR manager; and of course, father of former QPR stars Clive Allen and Bradley Allen (not to mention, uncle of Martin Allen)...Les Allen. Allen
Just turned SEVENTY, on September 4. Born September 4, 1937.
Les Allen started with Chelsea; joined Spurs and was part of their double-winning team. Subsequently replaced at Spurs by Jimmy Greaves.
Allen joined QPR in July 1965 for a then record fee. Part of the 1966/1967 League Cup Winning/Division III Championship team; the promotion team. Scored QPR's first-ever goal in Division One coming on as sub at home to Leicester. Became player manager in late 1968, replacing Tommy Docherty. Shortly after that stopped playing. Managed QPR from then (the Division One relegation season; the whole next season in Division Two, which saw lots of goals; and then the following season until January 1971 when he was replaced by coach, Gordon Jago. (And arguably, since he brought Jago to QPR, without Allen, probably no Stan Bowles, Dave Thomas, etc...which impacted deeply on QPR!)...As manager, among other players he (and Owner Jim Gregory) bought: Terry Venables and Phil Parkes.
JOINING QPR - (Sunday Times 'Caught in time')
"2 Les Allen (QPR)
A striker in Tottenham's Doublewinning side of 1960-61, Allen moved to QPR for 21,000 pounds in July 1965. "I met Jim Gregory, the chairman, and he laid out the plans about what they wanted to do. I was impressed, even though they were in the Third Division," recalls Allen. "It was quite a change. When I started, we were only getting gates of 3,000 or 4,000 people, but that trebled when we began to get results". Allen became player-manager in December 1968 after the premature departure of Stock and the stormy 28-day reign of the colourful Scot Tommy Docherty. However, the club was relegated, and he moved on to manage Swindon, then spent time in Greece.
He then became a professional model-maker. Allen, who recently underwent hip replacement surgery, is retired and lives in Brentwood." Times
See: Les Allen/Wikipedia
SEE DAVE'S Queesns Park Ranges FC Site's warm Profile of Les Allen - Dave's Les Allen
See Les Allen/Spurs Profile
Match Report/summary from Feb 15, 1969
[Note: This was actually the last game Les Allen played for QPR - appropriately enough against Spurs - And the game in which Roger Morgan made his Spurs debut after having just been sold to Spurs for 100,000 pounds+]
"There was a frosty reception for recently signed Roger Morgan as he returned to Loftus Road, but it was only the freezing conditions that conspired to produce the chill. Most players on both teams wore gloves with Greaves donning fingerless fawn mittens.
Rangers were still near the bottom of the table and although both teams put on a good display of football in difficult conditions, the score was 0-0 at the break. The frosty pitch made errors likely and when Les Allen got past our defence, he put in a cross for Frank Clarke to head QPR into the lead soon after the second half started. It was late in the game that things swung Tottenham's way, with Mullery's free-kick being cleared and Morgan putting the ball back into the area for Jimmy Greaves to knock the ball past the keeper. The home side claimed Greaves had handled in the act of scoring, but the referee waved away their complaints.
Rangers almost won the game at the death with a shot from Ian Morgan (twin of Roger) being kicked off the line by Cyril Knowles to preserve the draw.
Teams :
QPR - , , , , Les Allen, Ian Morgan, Clarke
Spurs - Knowles, Mullery, Roger Morgan, Greaves
Attendance : - 30,013
Referee : -
Report
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Clement Hazell Hunt Watson
Morgan Sibley Allen
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