Our next striker
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Our next striker
Bobby Smith. One brilliant season forever etched into my memory. Was England’s centre forward only two years previous and one of the country’s top top strikers. Not only did he score goals and make them for others, he gave the other players a kick up the backside and they were suddenly world beaters. The crowds flooded back for what was division four football - I doubt if many clubs in the bottom division have ever had crowds like that. Came back the following season 2 stone over what was already overweight and was lost to us forever.
Craig Maskell and Paul McDonald from Southampton. Found out the emotional news on the Seagull Line after returning from school.
CMS - we had been in Leicestershire the weekend before at our daughter’s and their local paper had a big article of an interview with Sven Goran Erickson about how he was looking forward to working with this exciting young player....... then he signed for us!
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No question that Bobby Smith was the Albion's most exciting signing ever. In the days before the internet and social media there were no rumors whatsoever of the possibility of him coming. And then suddenly the announcement in the papers and on the radio. Unbelievable.
I remember as a kid being out with some mates on a bike ride around town when we came across a white Astra GTE stuffed into a telegraph pole. Steam and smoke pouring out and Alan Biley sitting on a nearby wall smoking a fag.
We asked him what happened and he just told us to **** off.
Mate said you're shit at football and driving then. We didn't hang around after that