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Post by JimmyisGod on Dec 8, 2022 17:11:24 GMT
So sad to hear the death of Tony Allen
Best left back I ever saw
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Post by slash on Dec 8, 2022 17:24:40 GMT
RIP
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Post by lordb on Dec 8, 2022 17:25:43 GMT
RIP
One of our best ever players
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Post by theonlooker on Dec 8, 2022 17:47:14 GMT
Used to work with him many years ago. Really nice man who would talk football for hours.
RIP Tony and thanks.
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Post by silsdenstokie on Dec 8, 2022 18:11:00 GMT
Before my time but very much a Stoke legend
RIP Tony
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Post by chad on Dec 8, 2022 18:12:36 GMT
In the team when I started going. Didn’t he get a couple of England caps ?
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Post by Sfance on Dec 8, 2022 18:29:21 GMT
Yes, I believe he did. Very solid player. As I recall, he came into the first team at age 16. So maybe youngest ever to play for Stoke?
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Post by s7oke on Dec 8, 2022 18:31:07 GMT
R.I.P
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Post by therightside on Dec 8, 2022 18:48:42 GMT
R.I.P.
Very sad news. Tony Allen was in the team for the very first Stoke game I saw.
A very talented footballer.
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Post by lordb on Dec 8, 2022 18:49:21 GMT
Yes, I believe he did. Very solid player. As I recall, he came into the first team at age 16. So maybe youngest ever to play for Stoke? Not quite Bridgwater and I think Tezgel younger |
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Post by joll1 on Dec 8, 2022 18:53:59 GMT
Randomly there’s a fantastic picture of him on the wall in a hotel in Florence, god knows how it got there. Before my time but one I wished I’d seen play
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Post by march4 on Dec 8, 2022 19:01:53 GMT
Very talented player. Always stood out from the rest of the players on the pitch.
RIP.
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Post by stokesaint1 on Dec 8, 2022 19:03:27 GMT
So sad to hear the death of Tony Allen Best left back I ever saw I would have to go along with that from a Stokie point of view. Pej probably ran him a fairly close second but Tony Allen just oozed sheer quality, elegance and class. Used to love it when England teams were announced and he was in there. It bought a feeling of real pride about being a Stokie. He was a fair cricket player from memory too. Heaven has inherited a new real star. RIP. |
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Post by Bagwash on Dec 8, 2022 19:10:53 GMT
Before my time but my Dad used to say he was very good and underrated.
RIP Tony.
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Post by OldStokie on Dec 8, 2022 19:25:24 GMT
He was a class act. I'd have a job to choose between him and Pej as the best left back we've had but I don't think you could get a fag paper between them. So sad to lose him, another part of our positive past history.
Sincere condolences to family and close friends.
OS doffs flat cap to Tony.
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Post by Marc01 on Dec 8, 2022 19:43:51 GMT
According to this, Tony Allen was the target of an incident that led to expansion of the offence violent conduct: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Allen_(footballer)My Dad often recounts with delight a story of standing on the Stoke End when Allen was playing as sweeper. The match was a boring one, the crowd in complete silence. The ball was played in the direction of Allen in the Stoke End penalty area. Suddenly, a supporter piped up with a big booming voice: “GET YOUR BRUSH OUT ALLEN!!!” Cue uproar in the crowd 🙂 |
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Post by raythesailor on Dec 8, 2022 19:52:21 GMT
Had the pleasure of seeing him play many times.
Echo all the above posts. An excellent full back and player.
RIP
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Post by str8outtahampton on Dec 8, 2022 20:34:52 GMT
R.I.P. Very sad news. Tony Allen was in the team for the very first Stoke game I saw. A very talented footballer. Almost certainly played in the first game I saw too. How quickly can 60 years pass..? |
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Post by deeside2 on Dec 8, 2022 20:45:55 GMT
Class player who was in the team when I first started going to the games with my dad.
Sad to hear that he's passed away.
R.I.P.
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Post by bloodtypered on Dec 8, 2022 20:47:39 GMT
I put this on a few days ago, wasnt sure if it was true  Sad....was a friend of my dads when i was a kid,they played for stoke together, I saw him play a few times in the late 60's. |
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Post by emmbrook1956 on Dec 8, 2022 21:02:51 GMT
MyFather raved about Tony Allen. I saw him a good number of times when very young.
Sincere condolences to the family
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Dec 8, 2022 21:14:12 GMT
I'm another Stokie who saw Tony playing regularly at the time I started to go regularly to Stoke games. A VERY classy player - deserved Man of the Match many times -or would have done had there been such a thing in his day. Like OS above I am torn between naming him or Pej as our best left back. As OS says, not much between them, although Pej was always more of an attacking left back than Tony.
RIP
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Post by Gods on Dec 8, 2022 21:31:02 GMT
He was before my time but according to wiki after ending his playing career he returned to Stoke where he became a newsagent in Blythe Bridge.
Hard to imagine a player these days with 3 England caps and 450 mostly top flight league games under his belt going on to run a newsagents?
I mean it would be strange to pop in to a newsagent next weekend for a copy of Fiesta Readers Wives and find for example Ryan Shawcross behind the counter popping it in to a brown paper bag for you and handing you your change.
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Post by spitthedog on Dec 8, 2022 22:40:02 GMT
RIP
That's desperately sad news
What a wonderful footballer he was. Deserved many more England caps than he received.
I look forward to seeing the club paying a worthy tribute to him. One of the Stoke all time greats.
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Post by BuzzB on Dec 8, 2022 23:18:50 GMT
He was before my time but according to wiki after ending his playing career he returned to Stoke where he became a newsagent in Blythe Bridge. Hard to imagine a player these days with 3 England caps and 450 mostly top flight league games under his belt going on to run a newsagents? I mean it would be strange to pop in to a newsagent next weekend for a copy of Fiesta Readers Wives and find for example Ryan Shawcross behind the counter popping it in to a brown paper bag for you and handing you your change. Yep its correct, newsagents opposite the school on Uttoxeter Road. I used to pop in now and again as I did in Blutos Trentham Road shop just to say hello and buy a paper. I never saw Tony play I don't think, my first games were 69 ish so I may have done but can't remember. RIP Tony Allen, another one of Waddos' gone. |
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Post by steve66 on Dec 9, 2022 8:46:04 GMT
R.I.P, a stalwart in our defence from time I started going.
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Post by nott1 on Dec 9, 2022 10:47:51 GMT
In the team when I started going. Didn’t he get a couple of England caps ? Same England team as Brian Clough! |
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Post by nott1 on Dec 9, 2022 10:49:10 GMT
Known him since I was a kid and played footie with him many times, RIP pal!
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Post by nott1 on Dec 9, 2022 10:52:31 GMT
He also ran the newsagents in Blythe Bridge (where I used to buy my fags and papers when I stupidly used to smoke).
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Post by Gob Bluth on Dec 9, 2022 13:17:13 GMT
I'd not heard of him but what a bio, born in Stoke, 417 games for Stoke over 13 years is an incredibly achievement, 7th all time top capped players just ahead of Ryan.
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