Alan Maxwell


Alan Maxwell was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Darwen, Everton and Stoke.

Career

Maxwell was born in Glasgow and played for Cambuslang before joining English club Everton in 1891. He spent three years at Everton scoring 15 goals and helped them reach the 1893 FA Cup Final where he played in a 1–0 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers. He joined Darwen in 1893 and spent another three years with the struggling Lancashire club before he was subject to a bizarre transfer to Stoke: Instead of requesting an amount of money for Maxwell, Darwen instead wanted Stoke to provide them with a new set of wrought iron gates. He spent two seasons with Stoke, making 37 appearances and scoring six goals, before returning to Scotland with St Bernard's.
The closest Maxwell came to international honours was being selected for the annual Home Scots v Anglo-Scots annual trial match in 1901 while with Stoke. A decade earlier he had also played in the Glasgow FA v Sheffield FA challenge fixture while with Cambuslang.

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