[Albion] Albion legends - venerunt, viderunt, vicerunt…

Kosh · 2025-01-30T10:32:28+0000

The Alex Dawson stuff, within the Ferguson thread, made me realise how much our older fans could teach me about those players harking back to simpler times… you know, before the dry ice, and people of vertically challenged stature atop stilts juggling flaming wads of cash, whilst Marcus Rashford drives through their legs in an Aston Martin, atop a CGI football pitch bursting through a net, channeling the hyperbolic nonsense that Sky have woven into our entitled arses…

So, I’d ask those who are willing to use this thread to post things related to Albion legends from the hallowed days of antiquity, and (no) I don’t mean Peter Smith.

Some of us might learn a few things, and with it allow us to share and bask in the glory of one or two collective memories…

Over to you, if you please

The Alex Dawson stuff, if you missed it:

Busby Babe to terrifying Brighton opponents - the Alex Dawson story

Alex Dawson was a popular old-fashioned centre forward who scored 29 goals in 65 appearances for Brighton between 1968 and 1971

wearebrighton.com

Thanks to: @Change at Barnham

For originally posting.

(Note - use Latin more often)

Tom Hark Preston Park · 2025-01-30T10:39:03+0000

Albion legends - venerunt, viderunt, vicerunt… Vincentelot

Justice · 2025-01-30T10:46:46+0000

The days when every players favourite dish was steak & chips

Bakero · 2025-01-30T10:49:27+0000

Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Albion legends - venerunt, viderunt, vicerunt… Vincentelot

‘It was Cantona’s kung-fu kick that attracted me here’

Grassman · 2025-01-30T10:53:29+0000

My dad used to say - whenever anyone said X was the greatest ever Albion player - “he isn’t fit to lace Johnny McNichol’s boots”.
Si he was our greatest ever player. Though, that wasn’t the question….

WATFORD zero · 2025-01-30T10:56:41+0000

Justice said:
The days when every players favourite dish was steak & chips

This sort of thing ?

Kosh · 2025-01-30T10:57:25+0000

Grassman said:
My dad used to say - whenever anyone said X was the greatest ever Albion player - “he isn’t fit to lace Johnny McNichol’s boots”.
Si he was our greatest ever player. Though, that wasn’t the question….

That’s the kind of stuff I love tbh, my dad claims that no Sheff Utd player has ever lived up to the memory of Alan Woodward… indeed most since haven’t been fit to “sweep his drive…”

Justice · 2025-01-30T11:14:38+0000

WATFORD zero said:
This sort of thing ?

There’s always one

Justice · 2025-01-30T11:16:34+0000

Kosh said:
That’s the kind of stuff I love tbh, my dad claims that no Sheff Utd player has ever lived up to the memory of Alan Woodward… indeed most since haven’t been fit to “sweep his drive…”

My mate Wolves never stops going on about Steve Bull look at this lot no effort not like Steve Bull, Cunha not fit to clean Steve Bulls boots with that carry on

Kosh · 2025-01-30T11:23:30+0000

Justice said:
My mate Wolves never stops going on about Steve Bull look at this lot no effort not like Steve Bull, Cunha not fit to clean Steve Bulls boots with that carry on

We’ll all be like that in 30 years… “Good God man, this bloke isn’t fit to hold Solly March’s Beer

“

Solly will be a future legend, if he isn’t already a living one.

WATFORD zero · 2025-01-30T11:30:17+0000

Kosh said:
We’ll all be like that in 30 years… “Good God man, this bloke isn’t fit to hold Solly March’s Beer “

Solly will be a future legend, if he isn’t already a living one.

He already was, even before his shitehousing of Yoro and Garnacho a couple of weeks ago :wink:

Bald Gull · 2025-01-30T11:40:44+0000

Grassman said:
My dad used to say - whenever anyone said X was the greatest ever Albion player - “he isn’t fit to lace Johnny McNichol’s boots”.
Si he was our greatest ever player. Though, that wasn’t the question….

My Dad's favourite player as well!!

Flounce · 2025-01-30T12:12:39+0000

Grassman said:
My dad used to say - whenever anyone said X was the greatest ever Albion player - “he isn’t fit to lace Johnny McNichol’s boots”.
Si he was our greatest ever player. Though, that wasn’t the question….

Another one who ended up at f***ing Chelsea

Good mates ex’s mother was married to McNichol

Greg Bobkin · 2025-01-30T12:14:05+0000

Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Albion legends - venerunt, viderunt, vicerunt… Vincentelot

And don't forget VINCENTE...

Tom Hark Preston Park · 2025-01-30T12:20:59+0000

Greg Bobkin said:
And don't forget VINCENTE...

Vincent who?

Moshe Gariani · 2025-01-30T13:54:29+0000

I was fortunate to be able to volunteer with the "Sporting Memories" group in Polegate for a couple of years. There was a lovely bloke there who was a keen Albion fan and had first been to The Goldstone in the 1940s and regularly as a teenager in the 1950s. His admiration for the Div3(S) Albion players of that era was at least the equal of how modern day fans have seen MacAllister, Caicedo, Mitoma, etc ...

WATFORD zero · 2025-01-30T13:58:55+0000

Moshe Gariani said:
I was fortunate to be able to volunteer with the "Sporting Memories" group in Polegate for a couple of years. There was a lovely bloke there who was a keen Albion fan and had first been to The Goldstone in the 1940s and regularly as a teenager in the 1950s. His admiration for the Div3(S) Albion players of that era was at least the equal of how modern day fans have seen MacAllister, Caicedo, Mitoma, etc ...

It's an age thing. Having spoken to Norman Gall and Lewis Dunk, I was far more in awe of Sir Norm :bowdown:

Kosh · 2025-01-30T14:44:09+0000

I’ve been thinking around this one today - maybe the players back in the 60s etc. were simply more approachable/normal than the millionaires we all watch in the PL …. I guess it was easier to associate with one another, and with that came humility and (often) a more gentile down to earth vibe…

Small wonder our grandparents/parents have struggled to get on board with the Beats

modern ballers… God only knows what the likes of Alex Dawson would have thought!

thedonkeycentrehalf · 2025-01-30T15:30:20+0000

Kosh said:
I’ve been thinking around this one today - maybe the players back in the 60s etc. were simply more approachable/normal than the millionaires we all watch in the PL …. I guess it was easier to associate with one another, and with that came humility and (often) a more gentile down to earth vibe…

This, and also, with everyone recording and posting every interaction on social media, they have to be so careful not to say or do anything vaguely controversial.

dejavuatbtn · 2025-01-30T17:06:45+0000

I used to spend a lot of my time in the summer hols sitting on the nw terrace watching the training if it rained they’d do small sided under the west stand before it had been completed. I remember Bill Cassidy getting stripped by the others and had to run naked to the changing rooms. This was around 64/5. The players were great to the kids, played cricket with us in the park after their lunch in the cafe. The few who had cars parked inside the gates at the nw corner. They all signed autographs with a smile and were a completely different breed to most of today’s players who don’t have much of a connect with the fans. Different times, different world.

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