{{short description|English footballer}} {{Use British English|date=December 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Alan Woollett |image = |alt = |caption = |full_name = Alan Howard Woollett |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1947|3|4}} |birth_place = Wigston, England |death_date = |death_place = |height = |position = Defender |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = |collegeyears1 = |college1 = |collegecaps1 = |collegegoals1 = |years1 = 1964–1978 |clubs1 = Leicester City |caps1 = 227 |goals1 = 0 |years2 = 1978–1979 |clubs2 = Northampton Town |caps2 = 23 |goals2 = 0 |totalcaps = 250 |totalgoals = 0 |nationalyears1 = |nationalteam1 = |nationalcaps1 = |nationalgoals1 = |medaltemplates = }} '''Alan Howard Woollett''' (born 4 March 1947)<ref>{{Hugman|access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref> is a locally born former defender<ref>{{cite book|title=Complete Players' Records|author=Barry Hugman|location=London|publisher=Q.A.P.|year=1988|isbn=1-85291-585-4}}</ref> who played for Leicester City<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/leicester-city-fc/alan-woollett-4737/1966-67-1977-78_a19131/ |title=Club details |publisher=Sporting-heroes.net |date=25 June 2004 |access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> during what many people believe to have been their golden era in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref>''A history of Leicester City Football Club'' Folliard, R: Hornchurch, Ian Henry, 1980 {{ISBN|0-86025-700-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196869_fks/leicester_city.htm |title=Playing career portrait |publisher=Cards.littleoak.com.au |access-date=31 December 2011}}</ref>

==Career== Steady and committed<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t39109.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801063959/http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t39109.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 August 2012 |title=Fan's Testimony |publisher=Foxestalk.co.uk |access-date=31 December 2011 }}</ref> he was a member of the losing<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebluearmy.co.uk/details.asp?key=2A42%7c0%7c260608541983%7cR%7c608%7c174621127200455935630 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814081249/http://www.thebluearmy.co.uk/details.asp?key=2A42%7C0%7C260608541983%7CR%7C608%7C174621127200455935630 |archive-date=14 August 2007 |title=Woollett's considered career highlight|publisher= Thebluearmy.co.uk. |date=20 December 2011|access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> 1969 FA Cup Final side<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sportingchronicle.com/FACUP/1969.html |title=Match details |publisher=Sportingchronicle.com |access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> and was eventually awarded a testimonial against Chelsea in 1977.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=38996 |title=Testimonial details |publisher=Foxestalk.co.uk |access-date=31 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209091638/http://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=38996 |archive-date=9 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2003 ex-Fox<ref>The nickname of Leicester City ''Sky Sports Football Year Book'' 200/7 Rollin, G/Rollin, J: London, Q.A.P, 2006 {{ISBN|0-7553-1525-1}} p 220</ref> Steve Earle revealed that, unlike many players from that era, Woollett had never considered a move to the United States<ref>{{cite web|author=Lech Mintowt-Czyz|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article1161569.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524064623/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article1161569.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 May 2011 |title=Dogone USA |work=The Times |location=UK |access-date=31 December 2011}}</ref> because he could not bear to be parted from his dog. When it eventually died he was too distraught to travel with the squad for a game against Liverpool in May 1973. Manager Jimmy Bloomfield tried to get his teammates to show some respectful sympathy<ref>'' One Hump or Two:The Frank Worthington Story'' Cooper, S/Wells, N: Leicester, ACL & Polar, 1994 {{ISBN|1-899538-00-3}}</ref> – a feat teammate Len Glover was singularly unable to manage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2004/10/15/leicester_city_manager_rumour_mill_feature.shtml |title=The dog's memory lives on |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 December 2011}}</ref>

He spent 1978/79, his final season of league football, with Northampton Town.

==Honours== '''Leicester City''' *FA Cup runner-up: 1968–69<ref>{{cite book |first1=Leslie |first2=Jack |last1=Vernon |last2=Rollin |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78 |year=1977 |publisher=Brickfield Publications Ltd |location=London |isbn=0354 09018 6 |page=491}}</ref>

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