Alan Comfort
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 8 December 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Aldershot, England | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Queens Park Rangers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1984 | Queens Park Rangers | 0 | (0) |
| 1984–1986 | Cambridge United | 63 | (5) |
| 1986–1989 | Leyton Orient | 150 | (46) |
| 1989 | Middlesbrough | 15 | (2) |
| Total | 228 | (53) | |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Alan Comfort (born 8 December 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. Active between 1980 and 1989 before his career was cut short by injury, Comfort played for four teams, scoring 53 goals in 228 games in the Football League.
Career
Born in Aldershot, Comfort began his career at Queens Park Rangers, turning professional in 1980. After spending four years at Queens Park Rangers without making an appearance in the Football League,[1] Comfort signed for Cambridge United in 1984. In two seasons with Cambridge, Comfort scored five goals in 63 games,[2] before moving to Leyton Orient in early 1986. Comfort spent three-and-a-half seasons with Orient, scoring 46 goals in 150 appearances.[3] After moving to Middlesbrough in 1989, where he scored 2 goals in 15 games,[4] Comfort's career was cut short by a knee injury at the age of 25.[5][6]
After football
Comfort, who became a Christian at age 20 while at Cambridge United, trained as an Anglican Vicar at Ridley Hall College, Cambridge and has served as Chaplain to former club Leyton Orient for many years. He has led churches in Chadwell Heath, Buckhurst Hill, Epping, Loughton, Chelmsford (great Baddow) where his evangelical biblical teaching proved controversial, and Walthamstow, and is now leading a church in Standon, Herts. He is married to Jill, and has three children, Sarah, Henry and Ollie.
References
- ↑ "QUEENS PARK RANGERS : 1946/47 – 2008/09". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ "CAMBRIDGE UNITED : 1970/71 – 2004/05". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ "LEYTON ORIENT : 1946/47 – 2008/09". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ "MIDDLESBROUGH : 1946/47 – 2008/09". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ John Ashdown (18 August 2010). "God's footballers: Which players turned to religion after hanging up their boots?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ "From the pitch to the pulpit – a 'natural step' for Alan Comfort when his playing career came to a premature end!". Professional Footballer's Association. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2010.