Terrence "Terry" Alcock (born 9 December 1946) is an English former professional football defender.

He played for Port Vale from 1963 to 1967, before spending nine years with Blackpool. He played over 100 appearances for Port Vale in the Football League and almost 200 appearances for Blackpool. After 1976 he had short spells back at Port Vale, and then Halifax Town and Lancaster City. He also had short loan spells with Bury, Blackburn Rovers and Portland Timbers.

[edit] Early life

Hanley-born Alcock attended Wellington Road School, where he played as a goalkeeper, before later converting into a versatile central defender.^[1]

[edit] Playing career

Starting his career at Third Division club Port Vale in 1963, he signed his first professional contract with the club in September of the following year. In August 1967, after 112 league appearances for the Valiants, he signed for Blackpool, who were then playing in the First Division, the top flight in England, for a fee of £30,000,^[2] which was a club record at the time.^[3]

He was a member of the Blackpool team that won the 1971 Anglo-Italian Cup, beating Bologna 2–1 after extra time in the final at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara on 12 June 1971.^[4][5][6]

In the 1971–72 season he spent a short time on loan at Third Division club Bury, playing six league games and scoring one goal.

Alcock played in the 1972 Anglo-Italian Cup, including scoring in Blackpool's 10–0 victory over Lanerossi Vicenza on 10 June 1971 at Bloomfield Road, en route to Blackpool's appearance in the final. Alcock scored the Seasiders' goal as they lost out 1–3 to Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.^[7]

In 1976 he joined fellow Second Division club Blackburn Rovers on loan. Then, after having played 191 league games and scoring 21 goals for the Seasiders, he re-joined Port Vale in February 1977. Later that year he spent a short period on loan with North American Soccer League club Portland Timbers, before joining Fourth Division club Halifax Town in 1978, and then later that same year moved into non-League football with Lancaster City, of the Northern Premier League, with whom he finished his playing career.^[2]

[edit] Post-retirement

After retiring from football, Alcock became the licensee of the Blackpool Supporters Club at Bloomfield Road, before taking on similar positions at pubs in Burscough, Warton and then Wrea Green.^[2]

[edit] Honours

Blackpool

• Anglo-Italian Cup winner: 1971

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile at Neil Brown's statistics site (total appearances for Blackpool is incorrect)
• 1968-69 squad picture at blackpoolfc.co.uk
• Profile at soccervoice.com (total appearances for Blackpool is incorrect)