Alun Armstrong (footballer)

Football player infobox
playername = Alun Armstrong
height = height|ft=6
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1975|2|22
cityofbirth = Gateshead
countryofbirth = England
currentclub = Newcastle Blue Star
clubnumber = TBA
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs = Newcastle United
years = 1993–1994
1994–1998
1998–2000
2000
2000–2004
2003–2004
2004–2005
2005–2006
2006
2006–2007
2007–
clubs = Newcastle United
Stockport County
Middlesbrough
→ Huddersfield Town (loan)
Ipswich Town
→ Bradford City (loan)
Darlington
Rushden & Diamonds
→ Doncaster Rovers (loan)
Darlington
Newcastle Blue Star
caps(goals) = 000 0(0)
160 (49)
029 0(9)
006 0(1)
079 (14)
006 0(1)
032 0(9)
009 0(0)
006 0(0)
029 0(1)
000 0(0)
pcupdate = 14:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Alun Armstrong (born February 22, 1975 in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear) is an English professional footballer.

Career

Armstrong's first club was Newcastle United, where in October 1993 he came up from their youth team. He left in June 1994 having not played for them, and signed to Stockport County for £50,000. In 200 games for them, he scored 62 goals. In February 1998 he joined Middlesbrough for £1.6m. He stayed until 2000, when in March he joined Huddersfield Town for three months on loan. In December 2000 he joined Ipswich Town for £500,000. In the three years he was at Ipswich he scored 19 goals in 94 appearances, including a header in Ipswich's 1–0 win over Inter Milan in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup. Armstrong described the goal as "probably the most important of my career, as long as we get a result out there (In the return leg)". Ipswich were knocked out 4–2 on aggregate. From December 2003 until March 2004 he was on loan to Bradford City, and in September 2004 he joined Darlington on a free transfer. He left Darlington in June 2005, yet re-signed for them in August 2006 to join the club on a second spell, before leaving them again at the end of the 2006–07 season. He has since signed for Newcastle Blue Star in the UniBond Division One North.

External links

*soccerbase|233|Alun Armstrong
* [http://www.prideofanglia.com/sql/players/profile.phtml?&last=Armstrong&first=Alun Profile on Pride of Anglia website]
* [http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=45783 Armstrong Coup For Blue Star]