[Albion] Player Profile

[Postman Pat]

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

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Professional ambition

To play for Wales & in the 1st Division

He did both

 

[Cheshire Cat]

What was it with players in the 1970s and steak. There was other food available, even then.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Ah Tony Towner. Bit before my time when at the Albion but when we went to the Valley in Jan 1984, he was playing for them and was hugely popular with the Albion support. (Decent winger, Brighton born and bred, what's not to like).

That day he ripped us a new one to be fair (along with Mick Flanagan), and yet we somehow won thanks to O'Reilly after 46 seconds.

Very popular at Rotherham too

I think he even makes there all time starting XI

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

What was it with players in the 1970s and steak. There was other food available, even then.

It was the decade when the average person could afford to start eating out regularly.

Prawn Cocktail, Steak & Chips, and Black Forest Gateaux, all washed down with a bottle of Matteus Rose, being a very popular choice from the menu.

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

A somewhat underrated and unfashionable manager was Peter Taylor, liked to think of himself as primarily a coach and scout of course, but great kudos to him for sticking with it at the Albion after his best mate decided to jump ship for Dirty Leeds.

To be fair to Peter Taylor, he built the team that won promotion. It just needed Alan Mullery to come along and manage it.

 

[timbha]

It was the decade when the average person could afford to start eating out regularly.

Prawn Cocktail, Steak & Chips, and Black Forest Gateaux, all washed down with a bottle of Matteus Rose, being a very popular choice from the menu.

You were posh. We had chicken Kiev and a bottle of Blue Nun

 

[Postman Pat]

What was it with players in the 1970s and steak. There was other food available, even then.

Not professional northerner Lawro

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Not professional northerner Lawro

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I bet that has changed in the intervening years.

 

[timbha]

It was the decade when the average person could afford to start eating out regularly.

Prawn Cocktail, Steak & Chips, and Black Forest Gateaux, all washed down with a bottle of Matteus Rose, being a very popular choice from the menu.

You were posh. We had chicken Kiev and a bottle of Blue Nun

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Not professional northerner Lawro

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At least he had a car

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It was. He and Clough too were bringing in players who couldn't get in their clubs' first teams including Jim Walker and Tommy Mason (Derby), Ronnie Welch and Harry Wilson (Burnley) and Paul Fuschillo (Blackpool)? Only Wilson of that five was any good. To be fair and as you say, Taylor did see the problem and also brought some cracking players to us including Ward and Mellor, which started our revival.

 

[Questions]

What was it with players in the 1970s and steak. There was other food available, even then.

Only prawn cocktails

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Only prawn cocktails

You do the Black Forest Gateaux a disservice Sir.

 

[Questions]

You do the Black Forest Gateaux a disservice Sir.

It was the tiramisu of its day Cowfold, for sure.

 

[Postman Pat]

Fozzie no headband



Likes - Blondes?! Wasn't Match a kids magazine?

Whatever happened to Mark Vanston?

 

[Robinjakarta]

Fozzie no headband

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Likes - Blondes?! Wasn't Match a kids magazine?

Whatever happened to Mark Vanston?

Hmm. And favourite TV programme Benny Hill. And professional ambition to play at Wembley. Maybe not the greatest idea ..

 

[AnotherArch]

It was. He and Clough too were bringing in players who couldn't get in their clubs' first teams including Jim Walker and Tommy Mason (Derby), Ronnie Welch and Harry Wilson (Burnley) and Paul Fuschillo (Blackpool)? Only Wilson of that five was any good. To be fair and as you say, Taylor did see the problem and also brought some cracking players to us including Ward and Mellor, which started our revival.

Also there was Billy McEwan - he was pretty good as well.

 

[AZ Gull]

Fozzie no headband

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Likes - Blondes?! Wasn't Match a kids magazine?

Whatever happened to Mark Vanston?

He headed off to the US and had a very successful college career at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut:-



He was inducted into their Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008:-



He currently resides in Houston, TX.