Alan Webb (footballer)
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.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Richard Webb | ||
| Date of birth | 1 January 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Wrockwardine, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| 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 | |||
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