Teddy Maybank is on Weakest Link now

[Uncle C]

Gave Brighton a mention

 

[REDLAND]

is he pissed ??

 

[Hunting 784561]

He sanded the floors in my house a few years ago !

Decent guy - but says he was treated badly by the club at the time. Made to play with a dodgy knee or summat.

I think he puts vodka rather than milk on his cornflakes most mornings though....

 

[Icy Gull]

He sanded the floors in my house a few years ago !

Decent guy - but says he was treated badly by the club at the time. Made to play with a dodgy knee or summat..

I think he puts vodka rather than milk on his cornflakes most mornings though...

I quite liked him for his effort and he had a great footballing brain, just didn't have the skill to go with it. I remember him having dodgy knees, seems too many players were just given cortisone (or suchlike) injections and told to get on with it in those days, resulting in permanent damage. Not sure if Mick Channon suffered the same way but the guy walks like a cripple these days.

 

[Uncle C]

I think you will find he does rather well in this

 

[csider]

drinks in the albion a fair bit. gotta be out this round though !

 

[csider]

only went and won it !!!!!

 

[smudge]

I remember being at Brighton station waiting for the Seagull Special to Wrexham, 1st game of the season, (78 I think). Anyway, Teddy Maybank was entertaining the supporters by having a go on a kids skateboard. Alan Mullery spotted what was going on & went f***ing ballistic!
Incidentally we drew 0-0 I think & it was f***ing roasting hot. The high point was the train being attacked as we pulled out of Wolverhampton Station on the way home.
5 quid return including entrance, happy days.
I f***ing loved the Seagull Special!

 

[Uncle C]

I have a picture somewhere of Teddy returning from the promotion victory at Newcastle wearing a T shirt reading 'Wanker of the Week'

Must look it out sometime and post it here

 

[the wanderbus]

I remember being at Brighton station waiting for the Seagull Special to Wrexham, 1st game of the season, (78 I think). Anyway, Teddy Maybank was entertaining the supporters by having a go on a kids skateboard. Alan Mullery spotted what was going on & went f***ing ballistic!
Incidentally we drew 0-0 I think & it was f***ing roasting hot. The high point was the train being attacked as we pulled out of Wolverhampton Station on the way home.
5 quid return including entrance, happy days.
I f***ing loved the Seagull Special!

I was on that train, my first long distance away trip. Pretty sure it was only the travel for a fiver though.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Seagull Specials did have a top price of £5.00 but it was train only, otherwise your post is spot on.

Young lad, who works with me asked about, TM a few weeks back. he was surprised to find out that he really was a footballer, not only that but he was our record signing for a while.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Hasn't he made previous TV appearances? I'm sure he was on blind date and also something else.

 

[csider]

Think he has been on weakest link before, someone said to me earlier.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

It's a repeat I think, as I've seen him on the show, and on a "Best of..." (ahem) show.

Anne Robinson ripped him apart when he said he was Brighton, asking him repeatedly whether he was gay.

 

[smudge]

I was on that train, my first long distance away trip. Pretty sure it was only the travel for a fiver though.

Well, time plays tricks, but you get a pint for under 50p!

 

[BigGully]

He was on Blind Date back in the 80's. I think his wife/girlfriend at the time didnt know he had applied and wasnt too happy .... by all accounts !

 

[steward 433]

Well, time plays tricks, but you get a pint for under 50p!

Paid £3.45 the last time i bought a pint.

 

[smudge]

Paid £3.45 the last time i bought a pint.

Yep, forgot the word "could".

 

[nobody's dupe]

I quite liked him for his effort and he had a great footballing brain, just didn't have the skill to go with it.

For some unknown reason Teddy didn't go down well with a section of the Goldstone crowd. One of the best target men ever to play for the Albion he was certainly a players' player. He used to finish most games with bumps and bruises, usually from taking on battles on behalf of one of his team mates.

The most important goal he scored for Brighton was at Kenilworth Road during our promotion season to the old First Division.

There were a lot of hostilities fired in our direction before the game, as Luton warned Alan Mullery not to play Paul Clark because one of their players had sustained a broken leg from a tackle from Clarky in the corresponding match at The Goldstone. Mullers was not to be intimidated and Clark's name was on the team sheet.

On top of this The Albion had seemed to be running out of steam with some below par performances and dropped points. They just couldn't afford to lose this one if they were to sustain their promotion push.

At half-time we were one down from an unlucky own goal by Willow. The manager must have been at his eloquent best in the dressing room because Brighton came out with a lot of determination in the second half. With about ten minutes to go and from sustained pressure applied to the host team we were awarded a free kick not far outside the penalty area. This was well within Nobby Horton's range, but he seemed reluctant to take it. Teddy Maybank just took it upon himself to step up and whack it. It flew in to the net and I can still visualise Penguin prancing back to the halfway line in celebration of his goal.

We drew the game one each. That was such an important goal, and the result seemed to kick-start a revival of Albion' fortunes.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Has he still got that awful hair?