Roy Littlejohn
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Roy Littlejohn (2 June 1933 - 6 September 2022) was an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.[2] He was an England amateur international and won the 1958 Amateur Cup with Woking.[3]
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1933-06-02)2 June 1933 | ||
Place of birth | Bournemouth, England | ||
Date of death | 6 September 2022(2022-09-06) (aged 89)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Outside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1952–1956 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic | 22 | (2) |
1956–1957 | Portsmouth | ? | (?) |
1957–1959 | Woking | 52 | (18) |
International career | |||
– | England Amateurs | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Littlejohn, who played as an outside-right, began his football career as a junior with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, and made his first-team debut during the 1952–53 season.[2] He was on Portsmouth's books for a time while doing his National Service with the Royal Engineers,[4] and by 1957 was a Woking player,[5] and, as a PT instructor, was involved in training the team.[6] He was part of the Woking team that won the FA Amateur Cup in 1958, involved in the first two goals as Woking defeated Ilford 3–0 at Wembley.[7][8]
Littlejohn retained amateur status throughout his career, and was capped a number of times for the England amateur team.[9][10] He played for the Great Britain Olympic team eliminated in the qualifying round for the 1956 Games,[11] but was not selected for the team which eventually competed by special invitation.[12][13] He also was part of a British "FA XI" that toured Nigeria and Ghana in 1958.[14][1]
He pursued a career in architecture later on in life.[15]