CAN anyone really believe it was 10 years ago when the few thousand of us who watched the Albion at Withdean were marvelling at the goalscoring prowess of Bas Savage?

A quick check at the yellowing newsprint from 2007 reveals a clutch of Argus headlines extolling the virtues of a forward who, let’s face it, few could fathom.

After scoring twice in an away game at Northampton to take his tally to six in 11 games, Argus reporter Andy Naylor reminded us: “The gentle giant scored only twice in 66 appearances for Reading, Wycombe Wanderers, Bury, Bristol City and Gillingham before joining the Seagulls on a free transfer from the Gills at the beginning of February.”

Savage attributed his sudden burst of goalscoring on the coaching methods of manager Dean Wilkins, telling Naylor: “He is first out on the training pitch setting up sessions, and that enthusiasm rubs off on the squad.

“He may be young but tactically some of the sessions he has put on I have never seen before from experienced coaches, so I would say he has a good future ahead of him.

“He has worked on my movement as a striker, which has helped me in games, and being a bit more dangerous around the box.”

A prerequisite for a striker, though, you would have thought!

The movement most remember Savage for was his moonwalk goal celebration which was certainly a lot more entertaining than the ungainly style he displayed in pursuit of goals.

So good was his popping, sliding and gliding across the grass a la Michael Jackson that the Soccer AM programme on Sky Sports had him on to perform, a display which can still be found on YouTube.

There can be little doubt Savage’s goalscoring helped lift the Albion clear of the threat of relegation in the spring of 2007 and Wilkins told the Argus: “Bas has played a big part. We are very pleased with his ratio of chances and goals per game.

“We just felt that from what we had seen of him he would add to the squad and create different kind of problems to what we had in the side at that time.”

Naylor pondered whether the Seagulls might finally have found a talismanic striker in the mould of Bobby Zamora and Leon Knight. Savage replied: “I will definitely give it my best shot. I haven’t got the best record out there but I try in every game to score a goal.”

Savage scored the first goal of his professional career for Bristol City against Scunthorpe United in 2005 (his only goal in 23 appearances) but City fans were very divided in their opinion of his performances under current manager Lee Johnson’s dad Gary.

One of the more supportive comments, on otib.co.uk, came from RedTop, who said: “Yes he’s unorthodox, and no he doesn’t do everything right but this is third tier football and he causes havoc.”

Curiously, Scunthorpe were also the opponents when he scored his first home goal for the Albion in March 2007.

When Nicky Forster arrived at Brighton from Hull, there was the opportunity to resurrect what had been a very brief partnership at Reading but, at the Albion too, the partnership had a limited number of games.

A brief highlight in the autumn of 2007 saw a Savage-inspired 2-0 win away to Bournemouth. After Savage made one and scored one, Naylor began his assessment of the game: “Bas Savage may be unorthodox, even clumsy at times, but life is rarely dull with Albion’s moonwalking front man in the side.”

After scoring a total of nine in 36 games for Brighton, Savage moved on to Millwall, Tranmere, Dagenham and Redbridge and Northampton Town before ending up playing in Thailand.

In fact Savage was part of the Dagenham and Redbridge squad that caused a scare at Withdean when Albion were going for promotion from League One in 2011.

The Daily Mail reported how “the striker attempted to inspire them for their clash against league leaders Brighton with a Spiderman design sprayed on his head.

“But the man capable of performing the best moonwalk in the game and no stranger to dodgy barnets (having already had a red and blue pattern, a tiger skin style and many others… all this season) failed to come off the bench and John Still’s struggling side duly lost 4-3 at the Withdean.”

Albion twice had to come from behind but eventually ground out the win to secure their return to the second tier after a five-year absence.

Savage had started out with Walton & Hersham and got his league break with Reading in 2002 before a career-threatening injury kept him out of the game for over a year.

By the time he returned to action, Steve Coppell had arrived from Brighton and gave Savage few chances, resulting in his going out on loan to Bury and Wycombe. He spent 2005-06 at Ashton Gate and the earlier part of 2006-07 at Priestfield.

• Bas Savage pictures and articles from the Argus in 2007.

 

BRIAN Bromley was one of the key players in Brighton’s 1972 promotion-winning team.

Having played the majority of his career in the second tier, he brought a touch of guile and class to the midfield – and some important goals – as the team gained promotion from the old Division Three.

Bromley initially joined on loan from Portsmouth in November 1971 and made his debut as sub for Dave Turner away to Chesterfield. He started the next game and kept his place until the end of the season.

The loan was turned into a permanent deal in exchange for a £14,000 fee. At the end of the promotion season, John Vinicombe wrote in the Argus: “His transfer was a giveaway and to this day Portsmouth fans still bemoan his departure.”

Ray Crawford, the former England international striker who was living in Portsmouth when he joined the backroom team during that season, tells a funny story about Bromley in his autobiography Curse of the Jungle Boy (PB Publishing, 2007).

‘Brom’ didn’t drive and Crawford was asked to give him a lift into training to save on train fares. “Most days, when I arrived at his digs, Brom was still asleep when I knocked on his door.

“After letting me in, I would have to watch him whilst he slowly drank a big mug of strong black tea with the leaves floating in it before he was ready to go.

“As a player, he was a class above most of the Brighton lads, a good passer of the ball with a good work rate and, just like his tea drinking, was never rushed in anything he did on the pitch.”

Bromley’s first goal for Brighton was the decider in a 1-0 win away to Mansfield Town but it was the opener in a 2-0 home win over Tranmere Rovers that lived long in the memory.

Manager Pat Saward said: “I think all followers will agree that Brian Bromley’s goal was one they will remember for a long, long time.

“It came early in the game, at just the right time for us, and I have to search way back in my memory to recall such an exciting goal, with Brian starting his run in his own half, after a neat bit of tackling, and finishing with a brilliant shot from the left which left even that experienced campaigner Tommy Lawrence (former Liverpool no. 1) flatfooted.”

Saward positively purred about Bromley’s capture. He told the Football League Review in 1972 that signing Bromley was “the best move I’ve made” adding: “He’s an exceptional player, one who instils and builds confidence in those around him. He can do anything I ask for because he has both ability and character.”

It was a bit of a mutual admiration society because Bromley played against Saward during his Bolton days and said: “I remember the boss playing a cultured game, the type of football I appreciate, making the ball do the work.”

Bromley took over the captaincy when his former Bolton teammate John Napier was dropped for the oft talked-about televised home game with Aston Villa.

As the excitement grew towards the promotion goal, one of the best performances I recall from that run-in was a night game when Blackburn Rovers were beaten 3-0. Bromley scored the third goal and it was described thus by Vinicombe in the Argus:

“Eighty-nine minutes: After Irvine was fouled just outside the box, Napier executed a brilliant free-kick and Bromley read it expertly. Jones was slow off his line as Bromley raced in to head home, 3-0.”

A Goal magazine article after promotion was won revealed how special it was to Bromley. It said when he had been transferred from Portsmouth earlier in mid-season there was talk that injury might end his career.

“I was heartbroken at the time,” Bromley said. “I really felt my career might be finished. But now I’ve led a side back into the Second Division and everything is just great.”

At the start of the 1972-73 season, Bromley was installed as the new club captain and, as a player with eight years’ experience of Second Division football, in an August matchday programme he wrote: “Although the majority of my footballing career has been spent in the second division, my debut came in the First Division with Bolton Wanderers when I was only 16 years old.

“And one of my greatest ambitions now is to play in the First Division again – with Brighton and Hove Albion.”

Bromley was born in Burnley on 20 March 1946, and, having represented Lancashire Schools, he began his career at Bolton.

After making that debut in March 1963 against Sheffield United, he went on to play 184 games for the Trotters, chipping in with 26 goals, and played many games alongside Gordon Taylor, who was later chairman of the PFA for more than 40 years.

On 27 February 1964, Bromley played for England Youth in a friendly against Spain in Murcia and scored along with Wolves’ Peter Knowles as the visitors won 2-1. His teammates that day included West Ham’s Harry Redknapp, John Hollins of Chelsea and Don Rogers of Swindon Town.

Bromley looked back on his Bolton days and said: “It was storybook stuff for me in the First Division, as you can imagine, playing alongside such great performers as Francis Lee, Wyn Davies and Freddie Hill in Bolton’s forward line. We were all disappointed when we got relegated.

“I spent five years in the 2^nd Division with Bolton before moving on to Portsmouth where I had three and a half seasons at Fratton Park.”

Pompey paid a £25,000 fee for him in 1968 and he went on to make 95 appearances for the Fratton Park outfit, scoring three times.

“When I joined Brighton last season, first as a loan player and then permanently, I was impressed with the standard of Albion’s play and the attacking football that was adopted,” he said.

“I always thought promotion was on for us. The four clubs at the top and maybe Rotherham as well had too much class for the rest. And this was exactly how it turned out.”

In an only-to-be-expected rallying cry, he continued: “I believe now that the Albion have the ability to do well in the Second Division. Everyone here thinks like a big club and we are ambitious.

“The biggest difference I think you will see between the Second and Third Divisions is that there are better professionals in the Second. They are better drilled and they think and read the game more cleverly than in the lower divisions.

“An early look through the teams doesn’t appear to throw up any exceptional outfits. Blackpool impressed me very much last season. They’re a good side and it will be interesting to see how Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield go.

“But in my opinion, Albion have nothing to fear. We could be a surprise side but are unlikely to win by four and five goals away like we did in the Third Division.”

Sadly as history records, it was to be a disastrous season which ended in an automatic return to the Third Division. The season was only a couple of months old when Bromley was reunited with his former Pompey teammate George Ley.

Interviewed several years later, Ley recalled: “One of my best mates, Brian Bromley, had gone to Brighton and they had just won promotion.

“He used to play just in front of me in midfield when I was at full back, that was one of the reasons why I left – to go and play with Brom again in that position.”

I discovered a nice little anecdote about the pair’s friendship which happened during an FA Cup fourth round replay in 1971 in which Arsenal narrowly got the better of Pompey by 3-2.

With only two minutes of the game to go, Ley hit Gunners full back Pat Rice and Bromley tried to intervene to hold his pal back – and was promptly sent off by the ref. Arsenal went on to win the cup that year.

Bromley played less than half of Albion’s games in Division 2 but was back in the team as they returned to Division 3 at the start of 1973-74.

Saward was struggling to get the side to gel, though, and after only three games, a 2-0 defeat at home to Bournemouth, was Bromley’s last in the stripes and he moved to Reading in September 1973. He had played 52 games for the Albion in total, plus three as a sub, but he made his mark when it mattered.

He spent the 1974-75 season with Reading but only made 14 appearances for Charlie Hurley’s side and was sent out on loan to Darlington.

The following season he moved on to Wigan Athletic, who at that time were in the Northern Premier League, and in a season with the Latics played 23 times.

In 1976-77, he linked up with his former Pompey teammate David Munks at Southern League Waterlooville.

After he’d finished playing, he did what many players of that generation did and moved into the licensed trade.

At one time he was the landlord of the Black Dog in Arundel Street, Portsmouth, and also the White Hart pub in Portchester.

He was working at a social club in Portchester in 2012 and a Portsmouth fan – pompeyblue1980 – takes up the story:

“He looked very ill and was advised by a friend of mine to go home. He was back in the club on Wednesday and looked even worse. He was taken to the QA (Queen Alexandra Hospital) on Wednesday and transferred to Southampton General Hospital on Thursday. He passed away on Friday in the hospital.”

He was 11 days short of his 66^th birthday.

• Top picture shows Bromley captured in Shoot magazine; in the montage, pictures show Bromley’s portrait in Goal magazine, depicted on a Pompey football card collection, signing for the Albion, from the Argus scoring THAT goal against Tranmere (beating the legendary Ron Yeats), and, a matchday programme action shot.

GEOFF Sidebottom, who played in the European Cup for Wolverhampton Wanderers and the very first League Cup Final for Aston Villa, kept goal for Brighton & Hove Albion when I first started watching them.

Brighton were the third club manager Freddie Goodwin had brought him to, and he vied for the no. 1 jersey with local lad Brian Powney.

However, a game he revelled in, that I have referred to in the post about Eddie Spearritt, came in September 1969 when he faced his old club in a League Cup third round tie in front of a packed house at the Goldstone.

In John Vinicombe’s Argus preview of the big game, Sidebottom told him: “It is always nice to play against your old club and I know what this draw means to our supporters. They don’t come much bigger than the Wolves – wherever they play the crowds flock to see them.”

I came across the programme for the game only the other day, annotated by my dad with the team changes, and, in the annals of Albion history over the years, it stands out as one of the great nights.

I was only 11 at the time and had just started high school so it was probably a big deal to skip homework that evening and head over to Hove from home in Shoreham.

Up to then I had only ever seen a handful of ‘daylight’ games (played Saturday afternoons or bank holidays) so it was my first ever game under the floodlights (I’d not been to the games in the previous two rounds, when Albion had beaten Portsmouth and Birmingham, at the time both one division higher).

At a time when the average crowd for league games was around the 12,000 mark, 32,539 packed in to the Goldstone to see if Albion could pull off a remarkable hat-trick of results. No thoughts of a weakened team for Albion but, even back then Wolves didn’t put out their big guns, neither captain Mike Bailey, who would later become Albion manager, nor fearsome centre forward Derek Dougan played. Dougan had been a teammate of Sidebottom’s at Villa.

The size of the crowd certainly wouldn’t have fazed Sidebottom. He had made his Wolves debut 11 years earlier in the Black Country derby against West Brom in front of 48,898 at The Hawthorns.

Although goals from Allan Gilliver and Spearritt had Brighton 2-1 up at half-time, Wolves ultimately showed their superiority in the second half when Scottish international Hugh Curran got the ball past Sidebottom twice in eight second half minutes to clinch the tie.

It was during another cup match two months later, a marathon FA Cup second round tie with Walsall, that Sidebottom sustained the first worrying head injury that would ultimately lead to his forced retirement from the game.

In those days cup games weren’t decided on the lottery of penalties so they just kept having replays until there was a conclusive result.

It required three replays before the Saddlers finally prevailed 2-1, and it was during the first of the four games when a concussed Sidebottom was stretchered off on 65 minutes, outfield player Spearritt taking over in goal (in the days before substitute goalkeepers) and Albion hung on for a 1-1 draw.

At 5’10”, Sidebottom wasn’t the tallest ‘keeper around but no-one doubted his courage.

He missed the following nine games but played another nine times before the end of the season. After Goodwin departed for Birmingham, his successor, Pat Saward, preferred Powney and Sidebottom played only a handful of games in 1970-71, his last appearance coming in a 3-0 win over Doncaster in January 1971.

But where did it all begin? Back in the day, Wolves were one of the top teams in the country, league title winners in 1957-58 and 1958-59 and FA Cup winners in 1960. They had a feeder nursery club based near Rotherham called Wath Wanderers.

It was run by a former Wolves player turned scout, Mark Crook, who would scour Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and the area between Hull and Newcastle searching for youngsters who might make it in the famous old gold.

Sidebottom, born on Boxing Day 1936 in Mapplewell, three miles north of Barnsley, worked in a foundry near Barnsley in his teens and was spotted playing for Barnsley Boys and ended up at Wath Wanderers.

He signed pro for Wolves aged 17 in 1954 and played in the Wolves side beaten by a Manchester United featuring the mighty Duncan Edwards in the final of the 1954 FA Youth Cup.

With England international Bert Williams and Scot Malcolm Finlayson ahead of him in the first team, it was four years before he made that debut in a 2-1 defeat to arch rivals WBA. Subsequently he vied for the jersey with Nigel Sims and Noel Dwyer but

Sidebottom would go on to play 35 times for Wolves including two of the matches en route to the 1960 FA Cup Final win over Blackburn Rovers, and in the 1960 Charity Shield draw with Burnley.

He also appeared in a 5-2 European Cup second-round defeat at home to Barcelona, as well as the Cup Winners’ Cup.

Most of his senior outings for Wolves came in the early part of the 1960-61 season, featuring in 18 of the first 22 League games as deputy for the injured Finlayson.

In February 1961 he was transferred to Villa for £15,000 where, in September that year, he played in goal as Joe Mercer’s side beat Rotherham 3-0 in the second leg of what was, in that inaugural season of the competition, a two-legged final, Rotherham having won the first game 2-0.

Interesting to look back now and see that among his teammates that day were John Neal, who later became manager of Chelsea, Gordon Lee, a future Everton manager, and Vic Crowe, who managed Villa in the early ‘70s.

Over the next four years, Sidebottom made 88 appearances for Villa before linking up with Freddie Goodwin for the first time in 1965 when he joined Division 3 Scunthorpe United.

Goodwin had joined Scunny as player-manager in 1964. Waiting in the wings behind the experienced Sidebottom was a goalkeeper who would eventually emerge as one of England’s finest: Ray Clemence.

Sidebottom kept the youngster at bay during the 1965-66 season but eventually, after 59 games for The Iron, lost his place to the ‘keeper who went on to join Liverpool and Spurs and earn 61 caps for England before becoming the country’s goalkeeping coach.

When Goodwin tried his luck in America in 1967-68, Sidebottom was one of his first signings at New York Generals, and the ‘keeper played 44 games over there.

Almost, it seemed, as night followed day, shortly after Goodwin took over as Brighton manager, Sidebottom followed on 31 December 1968.

He would ultimately play 45 times for the Albion. After that earlier concussion incident against Walsall, he also had to leave the field with severe concussion when he cracked his head against a goalpost playing for the Reserves at Southwick.

He couldn’t shake off pains and double vision, and there followed a series of consultations. Even when the club’s own doctor advised him to pack up, he still didn’t want to accept the verdict.

It was only when he saw leading Harley Street neurologist Dr Roger Bannister (the same chap who ran the first sub-four minute mile) that he finally had to accept that he would have to quit the game at the age of 35.

“We went to the top to find out just why Geoff has been getting these pains,” manager Saward told the Argus. “I cannot say how sorry we all are. Geoff is the finest sort of professional; he is admired and liked throughout the game.”

Goodwin, who brought his Birmingham City side to the Goldstone to play in a testimonial match for Sidebottom in May 1972, said: “He was certainly the bravest goalkeeper I have ever seen.

“He was a marvellous club man. I signed him for Scunthorpe, New York Generals and Brighton and he never destroyed the faith I had in him.”

In the Birmingham side for that testimonial were striker Bob Latchford, who later played for Everton and England, and Gordon Taylor, who became chief executive of the PFA.

Sidebottom became a window cleaner and a building contractor after his playing days were over and he died aged 71 in November 2008.

Further reading

http://www.wolvesheroes.com/2008/11/06/keeper-passes-away/

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/former-aston-villa-goalkeeper-geoff-72339

www.nasljerseys.com/Players/S/Sidebottom.Geoff.htm

AMID the fairly seismic changes Brighton & Hove Albion went through in the summer of 1981, the arrival of full back Don Shanks was quite low key.

Manager Alan Mullery had quit in a fit of pique over chairman Mike Bamber selling Mark Lawrenson to Liverpool (when he’d already done a deal to sell him to Manchester United).

Brian Horton, the skipper throughout Albion’s rise from Third Division to First, left the club to join Luton Town with Tony Grealish coming in the opposite direction.

John Gregory, whose end of season switch from right back to midfield had played a big part in Albion’s narrow escape from relegation, moved to Second Division Queens Park Rangers.

In Gregory’s place, 28-year-old Hammersmith-born Shanks arrived at the Goldstone from Loftus Road.

He had been a part of that very successful QPR squad of the mid 1970s but had more of a reputation for activities off the field, getting into scrapes with his best mate Stan Bowles and living with former Miss World, Mary Stavin.

Shanks told Shoot magazine how he had been about to sign for Third Division Millwall despite having been on trial at Brighton, and playing on a pre-season tour, but Mike Bailey’s no. 2, John Collins, who’d been at Luton at the same time as Shanks recommended him to the boss and he agreed a one-year deal to play at the top level.

Bailey clearly favoured experience over youth. The inexperienced Chris Ramsey had come in at right back and impressed at the end of the 1980-81 season but didn’t get a look-in under Bailey, who also added top level nous on the left side with the free transfer capture of former Arsenal left back Sammy Nelson who he favoured over the long-serving Gary Williams.

With a midfield strengthened by the arrival of former European Cup winner Jimmy Case, who had moved from Anfield as part of the Lawrenson deal, there was a solid but not flamboyant look to the new line-up.

However unpopular Bailey’s defence-minded approach appeared, the fact remains he steered Brighton to their highest ever finish (13^th) in the football pyramid – a feat which stands to this day.

Shanks certainly played his part in that achievement and spoke about his time at the club on the popular Albion Roar podcast in October 2018. Shanks finished that historic season having completed 41 league and cup games, plus one as sub and was non-playing sub in two.

All the while Bailey was at the helm, Shanks was a regular and he began the 1982-83 season in the number 2 shirt again.

However, the talented and versatile Gary Stevens was always able to slot in comfortably as a right back or centre back and before long Shanks was not first choice. He made his last – 54^th – appearance in a 2-0 defeat away to Coventry on 4 December 1982, after which Bailey was sacked.

The new management team of George Aitken and Jimmy Melia instantly reinstated Ramsey at right back and Shanks never played for the Seagulls again.

On his release he linked up with Wimbledon and played a game for them before moving into non-league football with Wealdstone.

Born on 27 October 1952, Shanks began his football career as a junior at Fulham during the Johnny Haynes era, but was released aged 17. Shanks made seven appearances for the England Youth side between March and May 1971, when his teammates included future England international Trevor Francis.

After leaving Fulham, Shanks joined Luton Town where he played 90 games for the Hatters under manager Harry Haslam. He was in their 1973-74 promotion side along with Barry Butlin and Ken Goodeve, who both later had spells at Brighton, and former Man Utd European Cup winner John Aston, former United player and coach Jimmy Ryan and ex-Everton striker Jimmy Husband.

QPR signed him for £35,000 and he made his debut for the Hoops on 7 December 1974.

Shanks was generally regarded as back-up to first choice right back Dave Clement but nonetheless was part of QPR’s Championship runners-up squad in 1975-76. Manager Dave Sexton’s team was captained by Gerry Francis and included Phil Parkes in goal, Frank McLintock and David Webb in defence and Shanks’ great mate Stan Bowles up front with Don Givens.

In one interview, Bowles said: “Sexton signed Don Shanks from Luton to keep me happy. He was my best mate – and a bigger gambler than me!”

In another, he told sabotagetimes.com: “Everyone talks about George Best and Rodney Marsh. They were characters, all right. But they weren’t the only ones. Back in the 70s, there’d be a few characters in every team. At QPR we had Don Shanks, a very decent full-back who’d do just about anything for a laugh.”

And former QPR midfield player and subsequent England manager, Terry Venables, told journalist Joe Lovejoy: “Stan was game for a wind-up and formed a double act with Don Shanks which was different class. They never had any money and they always used to be borrowing or wanting an advance from the club secretary, Ron Phillips.”

Speaking exclusively to The Inside’R’ magazine, Shanks – who played 206 games and scored 11 goals for QPR between 1974 and 1981 – admitted: “I had a few situations with Stanley when it came to greyhounds. We bought a couple of them together, which was basically disastrous. Why? Well, they just weren’t very good.”

The pair also shared a flat for a short time. “We had this flat just off the Uxbridge Road in Ealing,” Shanks said. “We were there for four or five months until we ran out of money to pay the rent. I remember when the landlord came for the rent. I‘d paid it a couple of times, and I said to Stan, ‘It’s your turn to pay.’

“He said, ‘Let him knock, I’ll answer it.’

“So this big fella knocks on our door, and fair play to Stan, he got up to answer it. He said to him, ‘What do you want?’

“And the fella says, ‘I’m looking for my rent’.

“So Stan says, ‘You better come in and we can all look for it!’

“That was our last weekend there, and there was no more flat-sharing after that. It was an interesting four or five months because Stan knew a lot of interesting people, in the pop business and on the TV, all that sort of carry-on.

“It was fun. You’d go everywhere, and everyone knew Stan. I was just seen as Stan’s mate – I liked it that way!”

Many of the old QPR squad were reunited in December 2014 for a gathering largely organised by Shanks to raise money for his old pal who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s, and in 2015 Shanks returned to Loftus Road as a matchday guest for a half-time Q&A session.
Read more at

http://www.qpr.co.uk/news/article/don-shanks-stan-bowles-qpr-the-insider-2105386.aspx#8LCqydUhMqofR1e5.99

http://sabotagetimes.com/football/stan-bowles-chopper-harris-and-charlie-george-on-the-glory-days-part-2

http://www.wearetherangersboys.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-95833.html

http://www.qpr.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=156071#ixzz4b2YjdOdt

• Pictures show a portrait of Don Shanks shortly after signing for the Albion; in action against Nottingham Forest’s Garry Birtles, and a still from a video on wn.com shot in October 2016.