Be interesting to know if Albion knew about Bobby Smith before he signed for them from Spurs in the 1960's.
Another problem case is of course Kenny Sansom. The stories which circulated about the reasons behind his shock "swop" from Palace to Arsenal with Clive Allen, set up by the pillar of...
Not surprised he is outside football, he shows a healthy disrespect for agents and all the mayhem they were beginning to cause back in the mid-1990's. I guess the PFA have come to "terms" - cough - with them now.
Ironically one of Garry Nelson's misjudgements in "LFF" was that he thought Newcastle got the better part of the deal when ManU off loaded Gillespie to them for over £1m as part of the Andy Cole deal. Garry didn't rate Cole but as events proved he was VFM.
Gillespie however decidedly wasn't...
Now halfway through "Left foot Forward" which has a lot to say about Albion in the period Garry was there, as well as Charlton in the mid-1990's.
Ironically Garry was thinking of joining Bounemouth from Albion before Charlton. At the time (1994/5) he was glad to be at the Valley rather than...