Just who was your childhood Albion hero?

[Dave the OAP]

My footballing hero when I was a child was Dennis Law ( my father remembers him playing for Huddersfield under Bill Shankley)

the first real Albion"hero" was Tony Towner. I useed to love it when he picked the ball up on the wing and like an old fashioned winger, attacked the full backs!.....that seems to have dissapeared from the game.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Granny, you have changed your mind from Fred Binney?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Gary Stevens. And I was lucky enough to meet him earlier this year. Got really pissed and nattered for ages

 

[Dave the OAP]

Granny, you have changed your mind from Fred Binney?

last night we were discussing the old days and my over riding memories were of Towner ....Binney was certainly a great striker but looking back, not the FLAIR player

So yes...my mind has changed

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Alan Duffy, Alex Dawson, Sully, Towner

 

[Milton Keynes Seagull]

Alan Duffy, Alex Dawson, Sully, Towner

Alan Duffy was our poor man's George Best. A player with enormous talent and potential who wasted it all in the usual "birds, booze, fast cars" fashion.

My childhood heroes stem from the first Albion teams I regularly saw.

Charlie Livesey (pictured when at Northampton), Dave Turner and a long forgotten but solid full back Stewart Henderson.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Jack Bertolini
Johnnie (Granny) Goodchild
Bobby Smith

Bugger, I thought I would get in the Jack Bertollini first! Mind you, it was only cos I fancied his daughter!

 

[User removed 4]

fred binney.

 

[dahdevon]

john keely....legend.

 

[Trufflehound]

Willie Irvine

 

[robinsonsgrin]

steve penney on our wing.............mmmmmmmmmmm x

 

[Langley]

Jimmy Langley, I also went to Fulham to see him play when he moved on, Steve Foster & Peter Grummit follow close by.

 

[Two Professors]

Brian Powney.He was very big when I was very small!And can't remember any other Albion players from Seaford,although I'm sure other posters will find at least 1

 

[Milton Keynes Seagull]

Bugger, I thought I would get in the Jack Bertollini first! Mind you, it was only cos I fancied his daughter!

My sister fancied Jack Bertolini!

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Charlie Livesey was my very first hero

 

[£1.99]

For me in the early days of watching the Albion in was Kit Napier and Alan Duffy.

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Dean Saunders closely followed by Terry Connor.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Steve Foster (during his second spell with the club) in the 1990s when I started watching the Albion. What a player.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Mine - its a close run thing between Peter O'Sullivan and Tony Towner. How we could do with those two aged 23 in our side now!

I was a fan of them too i quite liked Eric Steele too.

 

[essex seagull]

junior school days=jimmy collins brilliant played against him when he must have been in his forties i wasnt bad but couldnt get near him.north stand days =super kenny beamish.