Alan Kimble

Infobox Football biography


playername = Alan Kimble
fullname = Alan Frank Kimble
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1966|8|6|df=yes
cityofbirth = Poole
countryofbirth = England
height = height|metre=1.73
position = Full back
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1984–1986
1985
1986–1993
1993–2002
2002
2002–2003
2003–2004
2004–2005
clubs = Charlton Athletic
→ Exeter City (loan)
Cambridge United
Wimbledon
→ Peterborough United (loan)
Luton Town
Dagenham & Redbridge
Heybridge Swifts
Career
caps(goals) = 006 0(0)
001 0(0)
299 (24)
215 0(0)
003 0(0)
012 0(0)
022 0(0)
022 0(0)
580 (24)

Alan Kimble (born August 6, 1966 in Poole, Dorset) is a retired English professional footballer. He is currently working as an Assistant Manager at Nationwide Conference side Ebbsfleet United.

Left back Kimble started his career at Charlton Athletic alongside his twin brother, Garry Kimble. They both progressed through the youth ranks to make brief appearances in the Charlton first team before the pair of them joined Exeter City on loan and then Cambridge United on free transfers in July 1986.

Alan Kimble went onto play 299 games for United, scoring 24 goals, most of which came from the penalty spot. He played a pivitol part in the club's amazing success in climbing the lower leagues in the early 1990s but left following relegation from (old) Division Two in 1993 after 7 years with the club.

Kimble moved to Premier League side Wimbledon for a fee of £175,000 and he went on to be a mainstay in their side for 9 years, making 215 league appearances. He failed to score a league goal for the club but did net once for them in one of his 25 League Cup games for the club.

After playing at the highest level he left Wimbledon at the end of the 2001/02 season following a brief loan spell at Peterborough United and joined ex-Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear at Luton Town. He managed only 12 games for Luton before dropping into the Nationwide Conference to play for Dagenham & Redbridge where he played a further 22 games to leave him with a total of more than 550 games in his top class career.

He had a brief spell with Heybridge Swifts before he was invited by ex-Cambridge team-mate Liam Daish to become Assistant Manager of Gravesend & Northfleet in March 2005.

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