Whatever became of ex-Albion apprentices from 1970s and 1980s?

[Crispy Ambulance]

Mark Nye worked at Amex always thought he had eye make up on. He was good crack and the story of the shampoo bottle was true he also said an ex employee used to leave his office door open to watch the guys in the showers. no names.!

Aye, worked in the Amex mailroom with him. Always looked a bit too Marc Almond for my liking!!

 

[dale jasper football guru]

Played with Frankie Fraser on a great Sunday league team " James lytle.
Darren freeman...Gerry Armstrong played aswell as a load of quality county league players.
He was doing some sort of insurance for legal and general I think back in the mid 90s
Great bloke !

Best line from him ever during a disagreement with a player from another team " I've go something in the back of my car and it pumps, do you want me to show you "

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Mark Nye. Utter legend of the clubbing scene in the 80's. allegedly pissed in Mullers shampoo bottle whilst an apprentice. Was a big player at Worthing during their success in the early 80's with Edmonds, Cornwall, Rainsford, etc. reasonable at Horsham, Burgess Hill etc afterwards. During the early 80's, every birds bogs in the town had 'I've shagged Mark Nye' in lippy on the mirror!
Was the lucky recipient of a black blow up doll on his 21st birthday!

Lock up your daughters. Here's Mark Nye.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Franco Massimo?

Is that the Horsham Massimo's? Lived opposite them in Park Terrace East

 

[Jam The Man]

Mark Nye worked at Amex always thought he had eye make up on. He was good crack and the story of the shampoo bottle was true he also said an ex employee used to leave his office door open to watch the guys in the showers. no names.!

yes and how that never got made more public, i'll never know!

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Jack Dinnen was talking about Garry Nelsons goal at Brentford on Twitter the other night

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Jack Dinnen was talking about Garry Nelsons goal at Brentford on Twitter the other night

I think I saw that. Wondered if it was the same- he seems to have, er, filled out a bit.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Bradley Wosahlo.

 

[sweetmagee]

Just stumbled across this thread, Steve Breach had a spell at Margate in the 1970's and played well into his 40's before a quite bizarre ending to his career. Profile on my site at http://www.margatefchistory.com/stevebreach.shtml

Ricky Sopp also had a spell at Margate - http://www.margatefchistory.com/rickysopp.shtml

Dave Linstrem played 100's of games for Canterbury City in the Southern League and ended up having a testimonial game against Spurs in the early 1990's.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I think I saw that. Wondered if it was the same- he seems to have, er, filled out a bit.

Who has filled out?, Jack Dineen or Nelse?

Sorry Edna, l know you posted that four months ago!

 

[sully]

Just stumbled across this thread, Steve Breach had a spell at Margate in the 1970's and played well into his 40's before a quite bizarre ending to his career. Profile on my site at http://www.margatefchistory.com/stevebreach.shtml

That's brilliant. Thanks.

Steve is my cousin, and I'm really looking forward to his 60th birthday party in January.

Incredibly, there's things in that article I wasn't aware of!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Who has filled out?, Jack Dineen or Nelse?

Sorry Edna, l know you posted that four months ago!

Dineen

 

[The Birdman]

It was nice to see young mark recently he has not changed much. I think he managed A Brighton Sunday league side for a while.i did check my Shampoo bottle.

 

[sweetmagee]

Glad to be of service Sully ! Be great if you could let Steve know about his page on my site.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I used to work with a lady who provided digs for young Albion apprentices - this is back in the late 80's [I was working at International Factors]

These would have been lads who had been scouted from out of the area and bought in - probably 16-21 year olds.
The only name I can remember is Stuart Munday and I can't remember her name but for the lads, she was their Albion "mum".

 

[sully]

Glad to be of service Sully ! Be great if you could let Steve know about his page on my site.

I've sent him the link on Facebook.

 

[Horses Arse]

Is that the Horsham Massimo's? Lived opposite them in Park Terrace East

Yes it was - I played (badly) in the same Chesworth Rovers team as him, his dad used to give him 50p per goal and he scored loads. Greedy bugger.

 

[Biffer]

I used to work with a lady who provided digs for young Albion apprentices - this is back in the late 80's [I was working at International Factors]

These would have been lads who had been scouted from out of the area and bought in - probably 16-21 year olds.
The only name I can remember is Stuart Munday and I can't remember her name but for the lads, she was their Albion "mum".

Sue Huffer ?

 

[Jello]

Yes it was - I played (badly) in the same Chesworth Rovers team as him, his dad used to give him 50p per goal and he scored loads. Greedy bugger.

I used to play for Chesworth Rovers (very badly) but I was year below Franco at Forest and don't think I played with him, my team had Jason Cheater. Maybe we know each other?

 

[Peter Grummit]

Paul Gent broke my 11 year old football heart by leading Moulscoomb to a 4-3 Baker Cup final win against my Westdene team, 1975. We led 3-1 at HT and I'm sure he scored at least one.

Jack Dineen was seeing (and messing about) our secretary when I worked at SDG in Queens Square 1997-ish. He was always getting into scrapes, mostly of his own volition (allegedly).

PG