Your Nobby Horton memories?

[Icy Gull]

Can't be arsed to text in as requested.

My outstanding memory of our best ever captain whilst I have watched the Albion is of him trying to ref as well as play in every game

Running arguement all game sometimes, I'm suprised he didn't get sent off for it.

Good goal record as well

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

met him when he opened a factory in peacehaven / only eleven at the time .best captain we have ever had

 

[Icy Gull]

Still trying to ref the game from the commentary box

 

[wellquickwoody]

Great player for us, total let down as a manager (leaving for a bigger club my arse!)

 

[dougdeep]

.best captain we have ever had

Best penalty taker too.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Being 18, my only memory of him is

"who's the bigger club now, nob - who's the bigger club now?" being sung at Port Vale

 

[Northstander]

Would be in my list for the Albions Hardest Midfielders

Arguably, best Captain Brighton has had!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Legend...

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Saw him walking with his wife in Hove Park in 1979

 

[drew]

He never said he was leaving for a bigger club. He followed his heart as Port Vale were his first league club and more local to his roots.

 

[The Bun Elephant]

I was he's paperboy when he lived in Westdene and was our captain

best house on the round

 

[drew]

Would be in my list for the Albions Hardest Midfielders

Arguably, best Captain Brighton has had!

One of the hardest agreed but not the hardest. That title must belong to Paul Clark.

 

[Icy Gull]

One of the hardest agreed but not the hardest. That title must belong to Paul Clark.

or Jimmy Case

 

[Everest]

met him when he opened a factory in peacehaven / only eleven at the time

Nobby opened a factory when he was 11?
Now that IS flair.

I was watching a charity game at Southwick with the wifey.
Nobby barged his way next to her, she told him to "watch it".
I asked her if she knew who he was, she replied "I know full well who he is, still doesn't excuse him".
He apologised after that.

 

[sod1]

Best penalty taker too.

missed a penalty against Scarborough in the FA cup circa 1978
we still won 3-0 if my memory serves me right .

 

[Lincoln Imp]

One weekday afternoon in the 80s I was in Hull with the family and we decided to go and look at the old ground. The team were about to get on a coach to take them to long distance away game. My daughter, a pretty-as-a-picture teenager, wanted an autograph and trotted over towards them. The players preened. She walked past them all and asked the balding, tired-looking manager for his signature. He looked surprised. She explained that she was a Brighton supporter. "Ah," he said quietly, "They were the great days." He asked for her name and added a little x to his signature.

 

[blue2]

Great player for us, as a manager leaving for a bigger club "Huddisfield"

 

[drew]

Great player for us, as a manager leaving for a bigger club "Huddisfield"

??

 

[supaseagull]

Great player for us, as a manager leaving for a bigger club "Huddisfield"

It was port vale actually- his home town club

 

[BigGully]

Could give the fiercest of bollickings just by a stare !!!!