Albion Connections

[Curious Orange]

I was chatting with my Grandad the other day, and have found out that my family has an interesting connection with the very earliest years of the club. My Great Grandfather ran the Albion Saloon, the barber shop where early Albion players used to get their hair cut (he gave the club a discount presumably to encouage business from the fans by having the players in his shop, an early form of product endorsment I guess).

Anyone else got any odd connections to the Albion?

 

[Brighton Boy]

i played in the same cricket team as jake robinson

And used to play for sussex and club team with chris may (u19 gkeeper)


Not really proper connections. BUT there you go

 

[poke]

im related to matt piper (he's my nans sisters grandson) and steve piper

 

[Turkey]

I know Adam El-Abd. Went to primary/seconday school with him.

 

[poke]

Adam El-abd's mum used to be my teacher when i was at junior school

 

[Everest]

My great grandad, Edgar Everest, has his photo in the History of the Albion book. Actually, it's the very first photo.

Edgar Everest - The father of pro football in Brighton.



Number 10 on this link

 

[Dave the OAP]

my Godfather is/was Chris Balderstone, the famous English Test Umpire, England Cricketer and Full Back for Carlisle

Not Albion related but there you go.

 

[Trigger]

Terry Connor's wife once looked after me for an afternoon in my younger days!

Also visited their house a few times for the occasional brew!

 

[ditchy]

i live in the same block as bz

 

[Turkey]

My great grandad, Edgar Everest, has his photo in the History of the Albion book. Actually, it's the very first photo.

Edgar Everest - The father of pro football in Brighton.



Number 10 on this link

Respect.

 

[Marc]

My old mans old house in Shoreham backed onto John Byrne's house and during a storm John's shed roof flew into my old mans garden!

 

[Easy 10]

Simon Rodger is my cousin (my mums brothers son).

 

[On the Left Wing]

I used to interview the former Stranraer manager Sanny McAnespie regularly when I was a newspaper reporter in Scotland about 10 years ago. I was gobsmacked when he told me he was an Albion player in the 1960s .... I was too young to remember him I think!

Also have a photo at home of Gordon "must score" Smith with my late gran and grandad at their old people's home in Shoreham ... apparently he had a relation living there!

 

[Everest]

Respect.

Does that mean I win?

 

[Turkey]

Does that mean I win?

...lose and draw. Yes.

 

[Brovion]

The man who once fixed my fridge used to maintain the fridges at the Goldstone.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

My Uncle,Jack Vitty played for the Albion in the 60s.

 

[Blue&WhiteSea]

My aunt used to have albion players as lodgers

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I went to college with someone who went out with Stuart Munday. He was a very devout Christian.

 

[Curious Orange]

I went to college with someone who went out with Stuart Munday. He was a very devout Christian.

And yet more tenuous links - I was at college with a mate of Stuart Munday's from Southend (the town, not the club!!)

I was also at the same college with Liz Hurley's cousin, but thats another story entirely!!