Alan Crawford (English footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alan Paterson Crawford | ||
| Date of birth | 30 October 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Rotherham,[1] England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 19??–1971 | Rotherham United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1978 | Rotherham United | 237 | (49) |
| 1973 | → Mansfield Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1979–1982 | Chesterfield | 94 | (20) |
| 1982–1985 | Bristol City | 92 | (26) |
| 1985–19?? | Exeter City | 33 | (3) |
| Bath City | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| Blackpool (coach) | |||
| Stockport County (coach) | |||
| West Bromwich Albion (coach) | |||
| Nottingham Forest (coach) | |||
| Rotherham United (scout) | |||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alan Paterson Crawford (born 30 October 1953) is an English former footballer who made more than 450 Football League appearances scoring 98 goals playing as an outside left.[3]
Crawford started his football career with Rotherham United and went on to make 169 consecutive appearances for them. He scored 31 Football League goals in their Third Division campaign in 1976–77, which is a Rotherham record for a midfielder. In 2007, he was voted as the greatest ever left-sided midfielder for Rotherham, in a Millers Mad poll.[4]
Crawford later moved to Chesterfield, and scored the winning goal for them in their 1980/81 Anglo-Scottish Cup victory over Notts County.[5] Crawford subsequently played for Bristol City, Exeter City, Bath City and Bristol Manor Farm. He rejoined Bristol City as a youth team coach before retiring from football working as a painter & decorator in Backwell near Bristol in the late 1990s.[6]
