[Albion] Who is the Albion's greatest ever cult hero...

[Brian Fantana]

Vicente.

For the sheer, 'how on EARTH have we managed to sign him?'.

I can't imagine a time when we'll sign a player who had one stage or another in their career was GENUINELY world class.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Various reasons whilst growing up watching Brighton to today:
Peter Grummitt, Peter O'Sullivan, Teddy Maybank, Peter Ward, Robbie Reinault, Jimmy Case, Bobby Zamora and especially Calde

 

[Peter Grummit]

Hans Kraay.

Daft, Dutch, Dangerous. Didn't give a monkey's. Once ran the length of the pitch to celebrate a goal with us.

PG

 

[Bruntburger]

Crumplin - John Barnes was never before or after, marked out of a game so well.

From sarcastic chants of Genius when he was crap to god like chants of Genius when he showed he was , well a football Genius.

 

[Taybha]

On a personal level Mark Barham , as a whole wow he's played for us thing then Frank Worthington , the only player I've ever seen comb his hair on the bench .

 

[daveinprague]

Frank Worthington was a cult figure before he even joined us

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

this is slightly encroaching on a poll based competition I had planned to introduce following the WHC entitled "Who is the FLAIREST of them all?". It's basically a quest to discover the flairest ever albion player. Many of the names in this thread are sure to feature

 

[seagully]

7 pages and no-one has mentioned Bas Savage yet?

 

[Eeyore]

Johnny Crumplin has to be up there. Peter Smith and Hans Kray too.

 

[Seasidesage]

He shot, he scored..

 

[Postman Pat]

Mike Small was one of my early cult heroes, and I think he ticks all the boxes.

Wasn't the greatest footballer, but certainly knew where the net was, and one of the best headers of the ball I have ever seen.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Not interested in definition of "cult".

My long list of Albion special favourites (1976-2016) roughly chronological but as they come to mind:

Peter Ward
Nobby Horton
Eric Steele
....

(Note to self: "Are you really going to spend the next half an hour typing out a list of your 50 favourite Albion players...?" )

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

It was Tony Towner for me, just the player that first captured my Albion imagination and I thought I'd want to be like. Shame I ended up more like Razor Ruddock, in both style and build!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

John Crumplin is the definition of a cult hero.

 

[Buzzer]

Any thoughts on Baz Savage? There weren't too many other moonwalking footballers.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Not interested in definition of "cult".

My long list of Albion special favourites (1976-2016) roughly chronological but as they come to mind:

Peter Ward
Nobby Horton
Eric Steele
....

(Note to self: "Are you really going to spend the next half an hour typing out a list of your 50 favourite Albion players...?" )

Start a different thread, then.

Players like Nobby and Ward who are popular with everyone or whose quality is immediately obvious cannot, by definition, be cult heroes. It has to be someone whose appeal is slightly mysterious to the majority, at least in the first place.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

He shot, he scored..

How do you get that to rhyme with "Lee Steele"?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Any thoughts on Baz Savage? There weren't too many other moonwalking footballers.

yeah he was a big one for me. He had that classic lower league striker attribute of going on solo runs without ever being in control of the ball (his goal away to Hartlepool is evidence of this). In that game he also did his moonwalk several metres away from the grieving relatives of a hartlepool player who had unfortunately passed away not long before that game (I'm sure Savage didn't do this on purpose as he came across as a decent guy) which sparked a bit of a BRAWL

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

Votes for Fran Sandaza and Lloyd Owusu, absolutely loved him during that brief loan spell - raise the roof!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Vicente (just never quite got over that was THE Vicente playing for MY team)

Paddy McCourt. Looked like a tramp, played like a talented tramp. The ultimate CAMEO player.