Allan John Clarke (born 31 July 1946),
Career
Early career
Clarke was born in Short Heath, Willenhall, Staffordshire. He is the third of seven children. Clarke joined Walsall in 1961 as an apprentice, Clarke spent just one season at Leicester City, in which he scored the winning goal in the semi-final of the 1969 FA Cup, knocking out the team he had supported as a boy – West Bromwich Albion. He also played in the FA Cup final and was man of the match, despite Leicester City losing 1–0 to Manchester City. For the second time, Clarke had topped the British football transfer fee record. He made his debut for his country against Czechoslovakia in the heat and pressure of a World Cup first-round match. A goal down, England were awarded a penalty from which Clarke scored, and under him they won promotion to the old third Division in May 1979, with Clarke scoring 12 goals himself that season including a hat-trick against Port Vale on Boxing Day. Clarke then began to bring in new players such as Trevor Aylott and Derrick Parker and Ian Evans and Barnsley finished mid-table. Clarke was a travelling salesman for MTS Nationwide, a firm based at Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="3"|League
!colspan="2"|FA Cup
!colspan="2"|League Cup
!colspan="2"|Europe
!colspan="2"|Total
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!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
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|rowspan="4"|Walsall
|1963–64
|Third Division
|6||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||6||0
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|1964–65
|Third Division
|43||23||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||43||23
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|1965–66
|Third Division
|24||19||2||1||3||1||colspan="2"|–||29||21
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!colspan="2"|Total
!73!!42!!2!!1!!3!!1!!0!!0!!78!!44
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|rowspan="4"|Fulham
|1965–66
|First Division
|8||1||0||0||0||0||||||8||1
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|1966–67
|First Division
|42||24||3||3||2||2||||||47||29
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|1967–68
|First Division
|36||20||3||2||6||5||||||45||27
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!colspan="2"|Total
!86!!45!!6!!5!!8!!7!!0!!0!!100!!57
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|Leicester City
|1968–69
|First Division
|36||12||8||1||2||3|| ||||46||16
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|rowspan="10"|Leeds United
|1969–70
|First Division
|28||17||9||7||colspan="2"|–||5||2||42||26
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|1970–71
|First Division
|41||19||4||1||1||0||10||3||56||23
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|1971–72
|First Division
|35||11||6||4||4||0||colspan="2"|–||45||15
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|1972–73
|First Division
|36||18||8||6||4||0||5||2||53||26
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|1973–74
|First Division
|34||13||3||0||colspan="2"|–||5||3||42||16
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|1974–75
|First Division
|34||14||7||3||3||1||8||4||52||22
|-
|1975–76
|First Division
|36||11||2||1||1||1||colspan="2"|–||39||13
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|1976–77
|First Division
|20||4||5||3||1||0||colspan="2"|–||26||7
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|1977–78
|First Division
|9||3||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||11||3
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!colspan="2"|Total
!273!!110!!45!!25!!15!!2!!33!!14!!366!!151
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|rowspan="3"|Barnsley
|1978–79
|Fourth Division
|34||12||3||2||2||0||colspan="2"|–||39||14
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|1979–80
|Third Division
|13||3||2||1||3||0||||||18||4
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!colspan="2"|Total
!47!!15!!5!!3!!5!!0!!0!!0!!57!!18
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!colspan="3"|Career total
!515!!224!!66!!35!!33!!13!!33!!14!!647!!286
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Honours
Leicester City
- FA Cup runner-up: 1968–69
Leeds United
- Football League First Division: 1973–74
- FA Cup: 1971–72; runner-up: 1969–70, 1972–73
- FA Charity Shield: 1969
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1970–71
- European Cup runner-up: 1974–75
Individual
- PFA Team of the Year: 1973–74 First Division
References
External links
- 'Very honoured for my mum & dad – Clarke'. BBC Sounds, October 2023
- Full Managerial Stats for Leeds United from WAFLL
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