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

[Iggle Piggle]

Correct answer is Johnny Crumplin (football genius)

Honourable mentions to Gerry Armstrong for vaulting the small fence at Southwick (iirc) and nutting the abusive fan. An Irish Cantona if you like.

Jimmy Case. For being sent off for being deaf.

Supermarket trolley and the phone in. Best chant ever.

 

[simon101]

Alan Duffy, Bert Murray (we paid for him), THE football genius that was J. Crumplin, Zamora, Vicente !!!!!!!!

 

[Shy Talk]

Peter Ward- no contest !

 

[Durlston]

Mike Small.

What a shot he had on him. The partnership with him and John Byrne was fantastic in the play-off final season (1990/91). I don't think he ever understood the offside rule though. Sold to West Ham for £600,000 (?). A huge profit on the 40k from a Greek club.

 

[catfish]

Jim Walker. For wearing odd boots.

 

[Trelford Mills Guide Dog]

Paul Clark
JCFG
Hans Kraay
Pete Smith
Baz
Vicente

I can't believe it took 10 pages before the legend that is Paul 'Tank' Clark received a mention.
'Clark is evil' !

 

[bobbysmith01]

Will probably get flamed for this, but never quite understood the hero worship of Johnny Crumplin. He was seriously crap when he first started playing for us, a complete liability and quite simply one of the most pilloried Albion players ever. The 'football genius' thing was (obviously) ironic to start with, although he did get better and had one very good game against Liverpool. Still not really sure why this makes him a 'cult hero', though...? I still have lots of memories of how awful he was.

Agree, he did get better, but he is still the only professional footballer I have ever seen completely miss the ball, when the ball was not moving. But is great example of when a footballer received positive support (although the very tongue in cheek) he got a lot better. My list would be: Bobby Smith, Ålan Duffy, Brian Horton, Peter Ward and Calderon

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Stuart Myall had a cult following and a very good song.

Yep. The 3-0 win at Cambridge in which he scored is still one of my favourite away days. Stu Myall, Stu Myall, Stu Myall and so on. Actually I can't quite get the tune in my head nowadays. We need to resurrect it. Sam Baldock would work

 

[Puppet Master]

Kez Mayo

 

[Screaming J]

Scrolled through all pages and...eventually...my three nominations have been mentioned!

Paul 'Tank' Clark ("Clark is eeeevil")
Tony 'Tiger' Towner
Kerry 'the Ginger Prince' Mayo

 

[LowKarate]

Wot no poll?

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He went from zero to absolute hero. Can't think of any other player who turned round the fans opinion of him to such a huge degree. And he got his own T-Shirt (which I still have).

 

[wigman]

Wardy, Robbie, Case, Zamora, Horton.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

THE BLOKE WHO CARRIED THE RAFFLE BOARD AROUND THE GOLDSTONE PITCH AT HALF TIME.............why..... because he could
regards
DR

Get that board DOWN!

 

[Mancgull]

Tank, for the performance at Newcastle, when Lawro was out and it was all to play for in 79.

I remember the home game against Aston Villa when within the first ten seconds he tackled Dennis Mortimer and sent him about four foot up in the air. Think we went on to win the game. He was proper hard.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

The two names most people will always remember at Albion are Peter Ward and Bobby Zamora at the moment.

 

[megcat]

Mike Bamber

 

[Hiney]

and the winner is............

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...cult-hero-voted-fans?page=0,1#:L7x8V4SbF-H_VA

 

[glasfryn]

probably not our best but a gentleman
Chris Catlin
and Harry Wilson was one nice bloke too

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Still say Peter Ward.... poetry in motion

Off the pitch it ought to be Dick Knight

 

[Blue3]

No one person could fill that spot but my list includes Peter Ward, Bobby Zamora, Alan Mullery, John Crumplin, Dick Knight, Ian Heart, Gary Heart, Atilla, all those who played a part however small in getting the Albion home and then Falmer you can go on and on all cult heroes