Spanish Seagulls
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Probably alluding to his nights out cruising the streets of Brighton, Nobby, don't you get it? He is more likely to admit to a bit of homolove than playing for us.
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Probably alluding to his nights out cruising the streets of Brighton, Nobby, don't you get it? He is more likely to admit to a bit of homolove than playing for us.
One trivial fact about Lawro that sticks in my mind is that his favourite drink (when he was with us anyway) was Guinness with blackcurrant - a concoction so revolting that I wondered whether his mind was addled. I'm sure he's moved on from that.
It's strange that Lawro has completely blanked his time with us. It must have had an effect on supporters' memories because he's never up with Brighton legends. He was a superb player - by some distance the best I've ever seen in a Brighton shirt. My dad, who remembered the likes of Johnny McNichol and Jimmy Langley, also thought he was the best ever. And yet, he's destined to remembered by Brighton fans, not as the team's greatest player but as a moaning, ungrateful git on telly.
Maybe he has Gareth Thomas syndrome....I always think he looks and talks a bit girly alongside Alan Hansen on the box.
John Boy
Paul McShane
It's way before my time, but I heard a story, that whilst at Preston, he was made to drink Guinness 'to build him up'. He hated the taste of it, so he added a lot of blackcurrant in it to disguise it. When he had his medical with us, we thought he had diabetes, as his blood sugar level was through the roof!
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
Lawro: "I remember my Goldstone days with affection. I made many friends in the area and I still come down from time to time... Yes, my Goldstone days will live with me forever."
Given where we are have been for most of the time Since Lawrenson left us I reckon he's embarrassed. He has to share a sofa with the likes of Lineker and Crooks whose 'little' teams were Leicester and Stoke respectively. And of course Hansen who afaik never played anywhere but Liverpool. Yeah sure he'll admit to starting off at his home-town club Preston as they're not that bad, but then to all intents and purposes it looks like he then went backwards (or at very least sideways) by spending time four years at shitty old, perpetually struggling Brighton. I think it's easier to ignore us than to try to explain to an incredulous 21st century football audience that there was a very short period when little old Brighton were actually a decent side.
Freddie Goodwin.
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He was a £100k signing for a 'little' 3rd div club at a time when that was big money.
he then had promotion, a very near miss and then another promotion before a creditable position in the top leage.
Nothing to be shy about as much of that success was down to him.
he then had promotion, a very near miss and then another promotion before a creditable position in the top leage.
Nothing to be shy about as much of that success was down to him.
He doesn't mention being manager at Oxford or defensive coach at *cough* Newcastle too much too.
He is a Preston lad, and supported them as a kid, so hardly surprising why he talks about them. He won five league championships, a European cup, three league cups and an FA Cup at Anfield, why on earth he mentions those losers is beyond me.
He is a Preston lad, and supported them as a kid, so hardly surprising why he talks about them. He won five league championships, a European cup, three league cups and an FA Cup at Anfield, why on earth he mentions those losers is beyond me.
Yes, as I said, WE know that, but without explaining a lot of the backstory that there was a very short period in our history when we weren't a perennial third division team and that a large part of that was down to him, a modern MoTD viewer isn't going to view four years at Brighton as something to write home about. In other words saying "I started off at Preston and ended up at Liverpool" is both accurate and saves all the palaver of saying "I started off at Preston and then moved to Brighton which wasn't as backward as it sounds as at the time they were really going places no they were honestly and played a major part in getting them into to the top division and keeping them there before a club-record move to Liverpool."
Ah, that rings a vague bell now. It makes sense - would anyone really drink Guinness and blackcurrant voluntarily?
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
From "A few Good Men":-
'So where does Brighton and Hove Albion lie in his affections? "It falls just behind Liverpool," says Mark, as we talk in a make up room deep within the bowels of the BBC's HQ at White City. "Liverpool was just sensational in terms of what you won, which is, after all, what you show your kids and grandkids. I got another career out of playing for them. But the most fun I ever had was at Brighton, definitely. I've really got nothing but fantastic, fond memories of the place. I hope people understand that Preston is a spiritual thing for me. I was born in a hospital 350 yards as the crow flies from Deepdale. My dad played for them. My stepdad was on the board there. It's where I made my debut in front of my schoolmates, so it's a very special place."'
So:-
1 Preston
2 Liverpool
3 The Albion
Doesn't sound unreasonable in the circs.
'So where does Brighton and Hove Albion lie in his affections? "It falls just behind Liverpool," says Mark, as we talk in a make up room deep within the bowels of the BBC's HQ at White City. "Liverpool was just sensational in terms of what you won, which is, after all, what you show your kids and grandkids. I got another career out of playing for them. But the most fun I ever had was at Brighton, definitely. I've really got nothing but fantastic, fond memories of the place. I hope people understand that Preston is a spiritual thing for me. I was born in a hospital 350 yards as the crow flies from Deepdale. My dad played for them. My stepdad was on the board there. It's where I made my debut in front of my schoolmates, so it's a very special place."'
So:-
1 Preston
2 Liverpool
3 The Albion
Doesn't sound unreasonable in the circs.
This thread is beginning to make me believe that the whole "Lawrensen ashamed of his Brighton links" is a bit of a myth.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Exactly.
Lawrenson, as a pundit, is not there to reminince about his time at Brighton because, frankly, no one gives a shit about us outside of our own support and we are at the foot of the 3rd division..Hardly scintillating entertainment for the mass market.
I expect if we, say, went on a decent cup run and he was asked about his time with The Albion he would show that he still retains affection for us.