[Albion] Who was your first favourite player?

[LamieRobertson]

Kit Napier and his red boots

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

1970 was my first real interest and that save by Gordon Banks from Pele's header impressed.
Earliest Albion fave was Brian Powney - I think he lived along the road from me in Saltdean?

 

[WATFORD zero]

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Zamora, Hart and Virgo. Can’t spilt them, but technically it would have been Zamora and Hart first.

Very similar to this. As an adult, Anthony Knockeart by a mile.

 

[Happy Exile]

Steve Heighway I got slightly obsessed about in Match and Shoot comics as a player for no reason except a crystal clear memory of him being the first player I ever got a sticker of for my (probably) Panini album. Bryan Robson is the first player I remember watching on TV and keeping an eye out for.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Ryan Giggs

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[Super Steve Earle]

Charlie Livesey

 

[Soton Seagull]

Steve Penney

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Peter Ward (Brighton)

Johannes Edvaldesson (Celtic)

Alan Rough (Patrick Thistle)

Forbes Phillipson Masters (Southampton)

 

[Eeyore]

It was 3 Apr 82, I checked my match programme.. Month I got wrong .. Fat fingers on my phone caused the typo on the year....

It's okay to accept you are growing older

What were we talking about ?

 

[um bongo molongo]

Safe as houses, the keeper in trousers.

 

[portlock seagull]

Dalglish and Clemence. By the mid 80s it was Penny and Perry!

 

[Boys 9d]

As a near octiginerian my first heroes were from long ago:
John Charles possibly the greatest British footballer
and for Albion: a toss up between Des Tennant and Eric Gill

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

Kit Napier followed closely by Peter O'Sullivan

 

[The Fits]

Minton.

 

[NooBHA]

Peter Marinello

 

[Berty23]

John Barnes. Still my favourite player.

 

[W3 BHA]

Definitely Brian Powney for me but the Albion didn't seem to 'count' when I was at school so my first non Albion fave was Jeff Astle, which was handy as he also played for an Albion in blue and white stripes. I thought he was unfairly hung out to dry for not scoring against Brazil 1970 through a totally packed area as well.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Jimmy Greaves.

For us: Bobby Smith.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

For the Abion Once a Jimmy Case Liverpool legend, who became an Albion legend on the pitch and off it fighting against adversity.

https://youtu.be/y5xj0WC0fE8

https://youtu.be/zg815R2LDCY

1st though was Alan Kennedy, to be me he was a midfield general, like Case that could unleash a thunderbolt