[Albion] who are your Albion cult heroes?

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

Big Eric Young - ungainly, leggy, sponge headband, moments of brilliance, wore contact lenses that came out every other game,
Hans Kraay - nutter, Dutch, nutter
John Crumplin - one stunning match, local lad
I really wanted Paddy McCourt to have done something to join this list!!!

 

[Icy Gull]

Big Eric Young - ungainly, leggy, sponge headband, moments of brilliance, wore contact lenses that came out every other game,
Hans Kraay - nutter, Dutch, nutter
John Crumplin - one stunning match, local lad
I really wanted Paddy McCourt to have done something to join this list!!!

Eric Young FA Cup winner too, had his Brighton and Hove Albion kit bag burnt/shat in (can’t remember which) as he used it whilst at Wimbledon

Definitely a cult hero for using his BHA bag when at Wimbledon

 

[bobby baxter]

Jim Oliver
Peter Leggett

Wow, like me, you must have watched a lot of reserve team games at the Goldstone.

 

[Weststander]

Glenn Murray
Peter Grummitt
Peter Ward
Brian Horton
Garry Nelson
Gary Hart

All class, they made the supporters happy (one still is!).

 

[albionfan37]

Wendy
Codner
Small
Chippy
P Smith
Storer
Reinelt

 

[Brovion]

I have given this no thought .....because I don't need to.

Crumplin.

Absolutely. The Football Genius is the epitome of the term 'cult hero'. Probably only Alan Duffy and Hans Kraay come close in my 53 years of following Brighton.

And yes, just to join the O/T debate: Napier, Horton, Ward, Zamora, Lawrenson, etc aren't 'Cult Heroes', they're 'Legends'. There is a huge difference.

 

[dingodan]

Lee Steele

 

[amexer]

Wow, like me, you must have watched a lot of reserve team games at the Goldstone.

They were both in digs close to me in Hove when I was a very young lad

 

[maltaseagull]

Spider Mellor
Fred Binney
Wardy
Kit Napier
OGH
Dunky

and I think Yves Bissouma will achieve the same status in the next couple of years....


TNBA

TTF

This plus Brian Horton, Calderón and Bruno.

 

[Eddiespearritt]

Obviously Sergei Gotsmanov

 

[swd40]

Working on the principle that the cult hero has enthusiasm/recklessness/length of service inversely proportional to football ability, I give you - Phil Stant. Especially in substitute role charging about like a headless chicken with the staring eyes!
Non-player is Keith Cuss. Then Ron Pavey in semi-caricature form.
Far too good a player to really be here, but Dunk tackling with his head whilst laying flat on the ground has to appear high in some category list for single cult action.

Didnt Stant use his mad head, to tackle with as well once?
At the Withdean, during a game?

 

[Gwylan]

Jim Oliver

The first Albion player I saw score a goal. He has to be a bit of cult hero just for that

 

[Gwylan]

Didnt Stant use his mad head, to tackle with as well once?
At the Withdean, during a game?

No, that was some guy we had on loan for a few games. Short, bearded fella, can't remember his name ... something Thomas?

 

[Reddleman]

A list of cult players cannot include the likes of Ward, Zamora or even Nogan, these were our best players in various seasons so that is not cult.

Cult for me would include:

- Spanish Dave
- Peter Smith
- Bryan Wade

 

[AZ Gull]

No, that was some guy we had on loan for a few games. Short, bearded fella, can't remember his name ... something Thomas?

Do you mean Rod Thomas?

 

[maffew]

Baz savage and trolley cult heroes. The both of them

 

[Icy Gull]

Do you mean Rod Thomas?

I may have been whooshed here but he wasn’t on loan and I never saw him with a beard. I did see him get sent off for a full length finger tip brilliant save at Gillingham though

 

[stewart12]

No, that was some guy we had on loan for a few games. Short, bearded fella, can't remember his name ... something Thomas?

martin thomas- think he was a defensive midfielder who had played under adams at fulham

 

[AZ Gull]

I may have been whooshed here but he wasn’t on loan and I never saw him with a beard. I did see him get sent off for a full length brilliant save at Gillingham though

He was short though! To be fair, I thought it was a decent guess given what Gwylan gave us to work with!

We did have a lad on loan from Man City called Scott Thomas, but I don't think he had a beard.

Martin Thomas joined us from Swansea, but that was on a short-term contract (not a loan).

 

[Medwayseagull]

Has anyone mentioned Charlie Livesey whose long range shooting could end up anywhere between the goal and the corner flag ?