1234andcounting
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- Mar 31, 2008
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Some of you may have known my brother, Dave “veggie postie” Jones, either personally, or at least by sight. He certainly put himself about a bit during the “gory” years. Sadly, Dave took his own life recently. He suffered from that terrible and much misunderstood condition, depression.
He was a committed, passionate Albion fan from the mid-1970s until 2005 when he began the slow descent which culminated in his suicide.
He started watching the Albion regularly in the 1975-76 season (being a glory seeker) and we went to hundreds of games together, home and away, from that time until he stopped going at the end of the 2004-05 season. He was also a member of the Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida collective, kit sponsors most notably of Kurt Nogan and Kerry Mayo. Kerry was somewhat bemused to be presented with a copy of the classic Iron Butterfly album by my brother in return for the signed shirt one season. Several of us have one of the turnstile manufacturer nameplates from the Goldstone Ground thanks to his visit to the ground the night before the Doncaster game.
Whilst in no way a leader of the protests against the Archer regime between 1995 and 1997, he was very much an activist. He can be seen in several photos in Paul Hayward’s and Stuart Weir’s excellent account of that time “More Than 90 Minutes”, most notably on p52; he is the guy in the Albion baseball cap. He was also one of the first to cross the pitch into the West Stand on that magnificent night when Bellotti was put to flight. A lesser known exploit was sending Paul Scally a dead seagull as a protest about the ground sharing arrangement.
It was sad that he chose never to watch the Albion play at Falmer and will now never have the chance, although I am sure he would have found the club’s move to being a business rather than a football club profoundly disappointing. I am equally certain he would have relished the full and frank exchange of view about the current situation in posts on here, snorting with derision at those he disagreed with.
From the Cup Final to Halifax at “home” in Gillingham he was there and was one of many who fought so hard to keep this club alive. Farewell, little brother. I hope you have found some peace at last.
He was a committed, passionate Albion fan from the mid-1970s until 2005 when he began the slow descent which culminated in his suicide.
He started watching the Albion regularly in the 1975-76 season (being a glory seeker) and we went to hundreds of games together, home and away, from that time until he stopped going at the end of the 2004-05 season. He was also a member of the Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida collective, kit sponsors most notably of Kurt Nogan and Kerry Mayo. Kerry was somewhat bemused to be presented with a copy of the classic Iron Butterfly album by my brother in return for the signed shirt one season. Several of us have one of the turnstile manufacturer nameplates from the Goldstone Ground thanks to his visit to the ground the night before the Doncaster game.
Whilst in no way a leader of the protests against the Archer regime between 1995 and 1997, he was very much an activist. He can be seen in several photos in Paul Hayward’s and Stuart Weir’s excellent account of that time “More Than 90 Minutes”, most notably on p52; he is the guy in the Albion baseball cap. He was also one of the first to cross the pitch into the West Stand on that magnificent night when Bellotti was put to flight. A lesser known exploit was sending Paul Scally a dead seagull as a protest about the ground sharing arrangement.
It was sad that he chose never to watch the Albion play at Falmer and will now never have the chance, although I am sure he would have found the club’s move to being a business rather than a football club profoundly disappointing. I am equally certain he would have relished the full and frank exchange of view about the current situation in posts on here, snorting with derision at those he disagreed with.
From the Cup Final to Halifax at “home” in Gillingham he was there and was one of many who fought so hard to keep this club alive. Farewell, little brother. I hope you have found some peace at last.
