Alan Webb (footballer)

Alan Webb
Personal information
Full name Alan Richard Webb[1]
Date of birth (1963-01-01) 1 January 1963 (age 61)[1]
Place of birth Wrockwardine, England[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
1978–1981 West Bromwich Albion
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1984 West Bromwich Albion 24 (0)
1983–1984 → Lincoln City (loan) 11 (0)
1984–1992 Port Vale 190 (2)
Total 225 (2)
Managerial career
Stourbridge (joint)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Richard Webb (born 1 January 1963) is an English former footballer who played as a right-back. He played 225 league games in an eleven-year career in the Football League. He spent 1981 to 1984 with West Bromwich Albion, and also played on loan at Lincoln City, but spent most of his career at Port Vale. He was voted Port Vale F.C. Player of the Year in 1984–85, helped the club to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1985–86, and won the Third Division play-off final with the club in 1989. He was forced into early retirement in June 1992 following a broken leg sustained in October 1989.

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  2. ^ Dunk, Peter (1987). Rothmans football yearbook 1987-88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0356143545. Retrieved 14 April 2020.