Late Tackle

Alan Dowson An Old Fashioned Hero

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 March 2018

MATT BADCOCK talks to the colourful Hampton & Richmond Borough manager about his football career…

MATT BADCOCK
A LIFE IN FOOTBALL

ALAN Dowson wasn’t good enough to make the big time as a professional footballer.
He didn’t think that should stop him from trying though because, in his own words, he’s a football nut.
He would send letters to clubs asking for trials but because his writing wasn’t very good, he didn’t get many replies.
The trials he did get didn’t work out until a schoolteacher helped him get one at Millwall. Aged 15, he was trav...

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