nationalcaps manageryears years youthyears caps goals nationalyears name fullname nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position managerclubs article_title
5 2 1966 1977 1980 1981 -- 1982 1988 -- 1968 1967 1969 -- 1971 1972 1973 1941 -- 1944 1944 -- 1946 1961 -- 1965 1941 -- 1944 1944 -- 1946 123 415 100 34 208 34 1952 -- 1954 1954 ronnie allen ronald allen england england b 1.73 0 638 276 2 0 northwood mission port vale northwood mission port vale crystal palace outside forward / centre-forward wolverhampton athletic bilbao sporting lisbon walsall west bromwich albion panathinaikos west wanderers bromwich albion saudi arabia → los angeles wolves -lrb- usa -rrb- ronnie allen

ronnie allen

ronald `` ronnie '' allen -lrb- 15 january 1929 -- 9 june 2001 -rrb- was an english international football player and manager .
he was a professional footballer for nineteen years , between 1946 and 1964 , making 638 appearances in the football league , and scoring 276 goals .
he also won five caps for england national team .
he later became a manager at clubs in england , spain , portugal , and greece .
his son , russell , also played professional football throughout the 1970s .
starting his career in 1946 with port vale , he spent four years with the club , before making a record breaking transfer to west bromwich albion .
he was one of the best strikers of the 1950s , playing over 400 games , with a ratio of a goal every two games .
he lifted the fa cup in 1954 , and helped the club to the fa charity shield in 1954 , and a second-place finish in the first division in 1953 -- 54 .
in 1961 he signed with crystal palace , where he spent the final four years of his playing career .
he helped palace win promotion out of the third division in 1963 -- 64 .
his management career began in 1966 with wolverhampton wanderers , as he led wolves out of the second division in 1966 -- 67 .
in 1969 he took up the reins at spanish club athletic bilbao , leading the club to a second-place finish in la liga in 1969 -- 70 and copa del rey glory in 1969 .
in 1972 he was appointed manager of portuguese club sporting lisbon , after one season with the club he moved back to england to manage walsall for a brief period .
in 1977 he spent a short time as manager of west bromwich albion .
after a spell advising the saudi arabia national team , he took charge of greek club panathinaikos for a short time in 1980 .
his last management position was back at west brom in 1981 -- 82 , following which he served the club as a coach and scout .
