Roy Littlejohn

Roy Littlejohn (2 June 1933 – 6 September 2022) was an English 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]

Roy Littlejohn

Personal information
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]