Alun Evans

Alun Evans
Personal information
Date of birth	30 April 1949 (age 74)
Place of birth	Kidderminster, England
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1964–1967	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years	Team
1967–1968	Wolverhampton Wanderers
1967	→ Los Angeles Wolves (guest)
1968–1972	Liverpool
1972–1975	Aston Villa
1975–1978	Walsall
1978–1982	South Melbourne
1983	Morwell Falcons
1984–1985	Sandringham City
Total
International career
1968–1969	England Under-23
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alun William Evans (born 30 April 1949) is an English former footballer who made his name as a centre forward in the Liverpool side rebuilt by Bill Shankly at the start of the 1970s. He was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

Career

Evans began his professional career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, breaking into the first team in the 1967/68 season. He had already appeared for the club on their summer success in winning the United Soccer Association under the guise of the Los Angeles Wolves in Summer 1967.

He only had one full season in Wolves' first team as he swiftly joined

£100,000, making him Britain's most expensive teenager. He had caught the eye of manager Bill Shankly after he outran and out-thought Liverpool captain Ron Yeats

in a match in 1968. Although only 19, and despite Shankly's known desire to introduce new players gradually to the team, Evans was put straight into the side and stayed there until the end of the season.

He made his debut on 21 September 1968 in a league match against Leicester City at Anfield, scoring in a 4–0 win. Evans went on to feature in 33 league games, scoring seven goals as Liverpool finished runners-up to Leeds.

After an unimpressive 1969–70 campaign, he fared better the next season, scoring frequently in the opening games but suffered from injury and ill-luck which forced him out of the team, including facial scarring after being attacked with broken glass in a nightclub.

He returned to the fray near the end, and bagged a

Old Trafford. However, Evans played disappointingly in the final and was substituted midway through the second half. Liverpool eventually lost 2–1 to Arsenal

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