I had a quick flick through his autobiography in WHSmiths yesterday, well the Brighton chapter at least.
To sum up, he didn't get on well with McGhee, liked Bob Booker, Charlie, Danny Cullip and Darren Currie. He was on £1100 a week while here. He got the hump with McGhee because he was let...
Funny vid. But without wishing to sound miserable, did these knobbers really call 999 for an ambulance? It's about time people got fined for sh*t like that.
"You called us out because you're p*ssed and ate a really hot chilli burger?"
"Ha ha ha, yeah!"
"Great fun! That'll be £80 please."
Back before the Gus bus pulled into Withdean, Jim Gannon was all lined up to be "the special one". He turned us down to stay in Stockport, Russell Slade came in and saved us (for a little while) and the rest is history. I remember being a bit disappointed Gannon didn't join us at the time, but...
Middlesborough vs Brighton 21/03/92
5.30am start from the Goldstone, going on the Liz Costa funbus for the first (and last) time. No booze on board allowed, around 20 passengers playing bingo all the way up. Got to the outskirts of Middlesborough around 1pm to be greeted by half of Cleveland...
Signed.
The only time I have ever enjoyed an after-goal song is at Chester away in 2000 when we were 7-0 up and they scored, prompting Blur's "Song 2" to blare out around the ground. It was very funny.
Whatever your views on Southampton as a club, the manager's job there should be a really peachy one - good ground, good squad, plenty of cashola to spend, large crowds, lots potential for success at this level. But I get the feeling that there's something badly, badly wrong behind the scenes...
And £60k for Holroyd. Having not seen Holroyd play, I'm not in a position to comment on his abilities, but I remember we bought him at around the same time Barnard went to Saints for £250k and it annoyed me that we'd taken a£60k punt on a non-leaguer when for not too much more cash we could have...
I'm starting to think a lot of these players are uncoachable, their lives are so completely removed from reality that they see a manager as an irrelevance. Any attempt to generate a team spirit, either by the manager playing the tyrannical sergeant major type, or by appealing to their patriotic...
Kurt Nogan, Mark Beeney
I remember being very disappointed we couldn't afford Paul Moulden or Steve Cotterill when they played on loan for us at the start of the 92 season.