Who Would You Have A Statue Of At Falmer

[Tory Boy]

Tony Bloom.

TB

 

[Drebin]

Good bounce. I didn't notice the dates until right at the end. I'm going to be a bit different and say I wouldn't go for a statue of a person but a bronze scale model type statue of the goldstone. Just so the young'uns know what the old ground looked like and the old'uns can show them where they sat/stood).

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Errr dick knight maybe

This

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Tony Bloom.

TB

Not a life sized one, one that is bigger!

Stuart Storer?

 

[Bwian]

No, our truely great Chairmen from the 70s & 80s! Unlike our current joker, he put a fortune into the club and took us all the way to Wembly and the top Div! It must be him!

He could also be held responsible for the state the club found itself in, opening the door for Archer to steal our ground.

 

[Superphil]

Dick Knight, end of thread

 

[kevo]

There is only one candidate really, it has to be Charlie Webb.

Checking Tim Carder's book, he made 275 appearances for us scoring 79 goals between 1909 and 1914, before managing us for 28 years (!), from 1919 to 1947, a total of 1,215 matches.

He was a full Irish international and scored the winner in the 1910 Charity Shield which earnt us the unofficial title of 'Champions of England'. In all, he was associated with the club for 40 years.

He also fought in the First World War and was captured by the Germans, spending eight months in a PoW camp.

A true Albion legend.

 

[Norman Potting]

I think some sort of statue/monument to the "unknown fan" - someone has mentioned a replica of the actual "Goldstone" in Hove Park I believe. Either that or the valiant St John's Ambulance guy who used to be at the Goldstone (anyone recall him) - he used to get a lot of "banter" about his moustache and the resemblance between him and a certain German dictator of the 20th Century that resulted from it.

 

[DumLum]

Dick Knight, Martin Perry and Tony Bloom!

 

[drew]

There is only one candidate really, it has to be Charlie Webb.

Checking Tim Carder's book, he made 275 appearances for us scoring 79 goals between 1909 and 1914, before managing us for 28 years (!), from 1919 to 1947, a total of 1,215 matches.

He was a full Irish international and scored the winner in the 1910 Charity Shield which earnt us the unofficial title of 'Champions of England'. In all, he was associated with the club for 40 years.

He also fought in the First World War and was captured by the Germans, spending eight months in a PoW camp.

A true Albion legend.

Agree. A lot of the other candidates are legends but didn't really serve the club for very long. Webb was Albion for just under 40 years, if you include the years he spent at war. Nobody in the current era will ever come close to that other than as a supporter and more lately chairman!!

 

[brakespear]

There is only one candidate really, it has to be Charlie Webb.

Checking Tim Carder's book, he made 275 appearances for us scoring 79 goals between 1909 and 1914, before managing us for 28 years (!), from 1919 to 1947, a total of 1,215 matches.

He was a full Irish international and scored the winner in the 1910 Charity Shield which earnt us the unofficial title of 'Champions of England'. In all, he was associated with the club for 40 years.

He also fought in the First World War and was captured by the Germans, spending eight months in a PoW camp.

A true Albion legend.

This.

and OGH.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There is only one candidate really, it has to be Charlie Webb.

Checking Tim Carder's book, he made 275 appearances for us scoring 79 goals between 1909 and 1914, before managing us for 28 years (!), from 1919 to 1947, a total of 1,215 matches.

He was a full Irish international and scored the winner in the 1910 Charity Shield which earnt us the unofficial title of 'Champions of England'. In all, he was associated with the club for 40 years.

He also fought in the First World War and was captured by the Germans, spending eight months in a PoW camp.

A true Albion legend.

Fascinating stuff...

On the outbreak of war, Brighton & Hove Albion supported the war effort by having a rifle range built at the Goldstone Ground. Webb led rifle drill on the pitch, using wooden replicas where there were insufficient actual weapons to go round.[26] He re-enlisted as a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, and served on the Western Front from July 1917. Promoted to acting captain (the rank was confirmed after the war), he was leading a patrol near Nesle in March 1918 when they were challenged in French. Unfortunately for Webb and his men, the French speakers were German troops. Preferring to avoid unnecessary injury or death, Webb surrendered. He saw out the duration as a prisoner of war in Mainz, Germany. While awaiting repatriation, he received a letter from the chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion offering him the post of team manager, an appointment he took up on his demobilisation in 1919

There is also Tommy Cook. Served in both wars. Played for Brighton and Sussex County Cricket Club. Died through suicide, most likely due to the stresses of his injuries in WW2.

 

[Seagull58]

I have to say that I'm a Mike Bamber fan. The 70's was an amazing time to follow the Albion and it was all down to him. A walk of fame would be a great way to honour our greatest heroes, many of whom never kicked a ball for the club; Bamber, Knight, Gritt, Mullery, Bloom and Lord Perry of Falmer.

A fitting epitaph:
In his 1994 autobiography, Clough said that Bamber was the nicest and best chairman he ever worked for, and if Bamber had been alive, and Clough was tempted to come out of retirement, Bamber's would have been the offer he would have taken.

 

[Razzoo]

How about a piece of work by the Chapmans depicting Archer and Bellotti being "abused" by skeletons and soldiers.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I have to say that I'm a Mike Bamber fan. The 70's was an amazing time to follow the Albion and it was all down to him. A walk of fame would be a great way to honour our greatest heroes, many of whom never kicked a ball for the club; Bamber, Knight, Gritt, Mullery, Bloom and Lord Perry of Falmer.

A fitting epitaph:
In his 1994 autobiography, Clough said that Bamber was the nicest and best chairman he ever worked for, and if Bamber had been alive, and Clough was tempted to come out of retirement, Bamber's would have been the offer he would have taken.

Yes! I love Mike Bamber. Such an exciting time to be an Albion fan.

 

[Cullip4]

Dick Knight, Martin Perry and Tony Bloom!

THIS!! I love the idea of Reinelt and Storer etc but it has to be this!

 

[papajaff]

Peter Ward? Please god no!!! Everyone knows there would have to be two.

Charlie Webb and Mike Bamber for me.

 

[Storer 68]

I'm sure there mustb be a sculptor in Brighton who could immortalise these two goals in bronze........

 

[Harold]

Canning. Drunk more cider than any Albion fan alive.

Materials mgiht by pricey though.

 

[Braders]

I had a vision of

Webb , ? , Ward , Zamora , Buckley - a swinging kick turning around for each with Buckley in Donny second goal celebration mode with "we've come a long,long way together" underneath

just not sure of the player in the "?" bit , hoping the Older NSCers may have an idea.