[Albion] Explain Yourself

Harry Wilson's tackle said:

There used to be a fantastic second had record shop near The Dome called The Cottage. Till one of the owners was murdered by a piece of filth.

The Cottage, 111 Church Street

I have to start with The Cottage as it remains my favourite second-hand record shop of all time. The premises ...

www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk

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Dorset Seagull said:

I learnt that last week after staying with friends in Louth

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ozzygull said:

Mine has nothing to do with the lead singer of black sabbath, that’s all I going to say about it.

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DavePage said:

clearly to protect my identity

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Worried Man Blues said:

I thought Mullered came from the German forward who mullered us? Gerd??

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Bodian said:

I was in the 6th form with @South Stand Bonfire, and he may not remember this now, but with another lad (Manu) we made up quotes and attributed them to a fictitious Edwin Columbus Bodian and I liberally sprinkled them into Geography and Economics essays on the basis that if you use enough quotes it looks as though you know what you're talking about. Used the name ever since for things here and there. Including further non-existent quotes at University until one of the lecturers kept hassling me for a copy of Bodian's book....

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hart's shirt said:

Irrespective of talent, every fan loves a player who will leave everything out on the pitch every game.

Gary Hart embodied this for me and I'm sure for many others. The ultimate utility man who would play anywhere the team needed.

I always imagined his post-match shirt to be dripping with sweat that he'd expended for our team. And so the name was born.

Hard-working, honest, authentic sweat. The unentitled sweat that's the result of a £1,000 transfer plus tracksuits from a non-league side.

Based solely on his original transfer fee, Hart's 373 games cost £2.68 each. We got the 45 goals for free. It was always over-delivering with him.

His early partnership with a young Zamora helped Bobby's career, put a smile on our faces and brought in silverware in the SKINT days.

So could he have played in the Premier League at his prime? On honest endeavour, energy and attitude alone, few would have bet against it.

But regardless, we'll always have the memories. And the history-making too.

Signed just a year after the Albion left the Goldstone, Hart represents Albion's recovery from grim Gillingham through wild Withdean to finally Falmer.

For those of us of a certain age, it's been running side by side with much of our lives. And dare I say it on here, the existence of NSC too.

So who scored the first goal at Falmer to complete the journey home? Of course it was. It had to be.

To finish, here's a few words from OGH himself after that game. https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/albion/9144064.Hart_so_pleased_to_score_Amex_opener/

Gary Hart has admitted he was desperate to score the first goal at Albion's new stadium to complete an Amex/Withdean double.
The long-serving striker's fairytale 70th minute header helped the Seagulls to a 2-0 victory over Eastbourne Borough in the Sussex Senior Cup final at The Amex.
Hart, 34, said: "I wanted to score the first goal, I am not going to deny that."
"I was getting frustrated in the first half, because I didn't really have many chances but it came to me and it's good, a little bit of history for me again, because I scored the first goal at Withdean as well (against Nottingham Forest)."
Hart released by Albion at the end of last season, captained the team and lifted the Cup after he was substituted late on to a warm ovation from the crowd of 7,104.
"It's an amazing stadium to play in," he said. "I'm just glad I got the chance."

Gary, I'm just glad we got the chance to have you playing for us.

HS

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Gary Hart's Stalker said:

This.

Fantastic write up there HS.

When he was on the pitch, I could rarely take my eyes off him, hence the 'Stalker' bit to my name.

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Shropshire Seagull said:

I thought it might be that you had antipodean roots.

As in g'day Sheila

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Mellotron said:

It incorporates my surname, is a brilliant instrument used famously by The Beatles (and many others) - think the flute sounds on Strawberry Fields Forever, or the distorted choir sounds towards the end of Paranoid Android.

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I'm a musician who has worked with synths and would love to own one one day (but they are about £2-3,000 for the models I'd be interested in, so I think it's unlikely sadly).

It also sounds a bit like the name of a Transformer which I probably thought was cool many years ago.

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Si Gull said:

Well, I've got news for you, Bob. It hasn't worked.

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Nitram said:

I’m backward.

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zefarelly said:

my username is just a nickname from school. I never gave it ay thought at the time, ad that time was so long ago I can't remember exactly . . .I still use it as a username and still have it as my email address.

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Stato said:

Apparently a 'muller' was a type of pestle for grinding stuff up, so I guess that 'mullering' became slang for grinding up and 'mullered' became an adjective meaning pounded or ground up and evolved to mean destroyed. It was then adapted in the 90s to mean drunk, or destroyed by booze. The German surname Muller is the English equivalent of Miller, so the surnames probably have deriviations that are connected to the term. Gerd Muller scored the extra time goal that knocked England out of the 1970 World Cup, but his apogee was the 1974 World Cup that we didn't qualify for. Andreas Möller (also meaning Miller) scored the winning penalty in the Euro 96 semi final, so we've been mullered, by a couple of German Millers.

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Shropshire Seagull said:

I knew a Bob Page (HH copper & biker) who had a brother called Dave (played cricket for Wivelsfield)
Don't recall either had any interest in BHAFC - any relation?

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