Alan Bloor

Alan Bloor
Personal information
Full name Alan Bloor[1]
Date of birth (1943-03-16) 16 March 1943 (age 81)[1]
Place of birth Stoke-on-Trent, England[1]
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Centre-half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1978 Stoke City 388 (17)
1967 → Cleveland Stokers (loan) 11 (1)
1978 Port Vale 6 (1)
Total 405 (19)
International career
England Youth
Managerial career
1979 Port Vale
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alan Bloor (born 16 March 1943) is an English former professional footballer and manager. He made 394 league appearances in the Football League for both Potteries teams.

He spent eighteen years as a centre-half at Stoke City between 1960 and 1978, helping them to lift the League Cup in 1972, before spending a brief association with Port Vale as a player and manager between 1978 and 1979. He also briefly played for American club Cleveland Stokers in 1967. He is fifth in Stoke's all-time appearances list and was nicknamed "Bluto" by the club's supporters.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference kent was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Rollin, Jack (1980). Rothmans football yearbook. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 299. ISBN 0362020175. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ^ Matthews, Tony (18 December 2008). The Legends of Stoke City. Derby, United Kingdom: Breedon Books. pp. 30–1. ISBN 978-1-85983-653-8.