His career finished with a benefit match against Middlesbrough when he made £540.

Allen even found himself left out of his own benefit match".

The women's event has become a benefit match for the defending champions, China.

Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.

Two years later his old club Alkmaar held a benefit match for him.

A benefit match was played every year at Dorking for him after this.

He was allotted a benefit match which could not be played.

In total he played 330 matches between 1889 and 1904, with his benefit match in 1902 being worth £1,739.

It was an emotional return, playing in his own benefit match with some of the sport's biggest names.

His benefit match in 1920 reaped an incredible £1,079 13s 8d.