[Albion] Semi-legendary players who will surely get forgotten over time, but deserve a shout for doing their bit

[METALMICKY]

Mark Gall. Exceptional pace, career sadly shortened by injury, I think.

Unusual pace considering he supposedly had one leg considerably shorter than the other hence that curious slight rocking gait.

 

[albionant]

Jeff Minton one of only a few 'class' players during the dark days

 

[upthealbion1970]

Had anyone propose Romain Vincelot yet?

 

[albionant]

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Jeff Minton one of only a few 'class' players during the dark days

Am I remembering right that his wage slip, did the rounds at the time ?

 

[TheCheekyBlinder]

One of the best threads for a while. Hope some of the players mentioned are eventually notified of this somehow.

Shout out to Adam Virgo, Wayne Bridge and Sam Baldock

 

[TheCheekyBlinder]

Not sure where we’d be without this man

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Eric Potts.

Ernie Machin

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Ian Mellor

Ian Mellor – the postman who delivered for Peter Ward

THE SONGS still sung today that immortalise Peter Ward sadly fail to recognise the man who laid on so many of the nimble striker’s goals. But fans of a certain vintage will never forget the contrib…

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[Robert Codners Nostrils]

I’m not having that Peter Smith bashing ! His dreads were only part of his mystique, and his overlaps were legendary - not even semi, absolutely 100% A grade legendary.

I think you need to have a word with yourself tbh…

In all seriousness, the rise and fall of Peter Smith was a bit strange. Joined us from non-league. Player of the season in 94/95. Then he went downhill rapidly. Seemed to completely lose his confidence. I know the rest of the team were also poor, but he was not even close to replicating his form from his first season.

 

[Hovegull]

Ulloa?

 

[Robinjakarta]

Eric Potts.

Ernie Machin

Great shouts. Potts our supersub and Machin our Brian Horton who never was. With his spiritual home elsewhere and bad luck with injuries, that did for Machin. Shame as he was a really good midfielder, but Horton was soon to follow. We were good at unearthing players even then.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Ian Mellor

Ian Mellor – the postman who delivered for Peter Ward

THE SONGS still sung today that immortalise Peter Ward sadly fail to recognise the man who laid on so many of the nimble striker’s goals. But fans of a certain vintage will never forget the contrib…

inparallellines.wordpress.com

Mellor was a great player to have at a great time for us, and he and Peter Ward dovetailed beautifully. Strikers in pairs and all that.

 

[jackalbion]

Bong

 

[stewart12]

Sam Baldock in our promotion season was so useful. Hemed and Murray were both better than him but didn't really work as a duo and both played better with Baldock alongside them. He was industrious and a bit annoying to play against and was able to find some decent goalscoring form that season which he'd struggled with in the second tier previously

 

[Tiger Barb]

Gotsmanov

 

[Dave the OAP]

Doug loft…..just for the joy division song

loft
loft will tear your apart again….

they don’t do songs like that anymore


btw. Whatever happened to krispies

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Remember going to MK dons back in the day when our fans spent most of the game singing if number oneeee was Andy Whing, if number two was Andy Whing

I do kind of miss the days in a way where such a bang average plodder like Andy Whing was a cult hero because of how shite the rest of the team was

He’s making a great job of management though. He got Banbury promoted, moved to Solihull Moors, who now sit top of the league undefeated.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I think we're close to naming nearly every Albion player in history here!

So I'll chuck in CMS and Abdul Razak for good measure!