Bobby Zamora edged out Peter Ward to be selected as Brighton & Hove Albion’s greatest ever player by the club’s fans in a poll conducted as part of The Football League's 125th Anniversary celebrations.
Zamora collected 42% of the votes cast after three prolific years with Brighton in which he registered over 80 goals, but Ward came in a solitary percentage point behind him with Mark Lawrenson, Brian Horton and Jimmy Case making up the top five.
Zamora sits alongside legends of the game including Brian Clough, Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Sir Stanley Matthews, Trevor Francis, Billy Bremner and Herbert Chapman who have all been named in a list of the greatest contributors to clubs’ league history in a vote as part of The Football League’s 125th Anniversary celebrations.
The names feature in lists for each of the current 72 Football League clubs’ greatest in various categories including managers, players, captains, fan favourites, matches and seasons. *The polls were run by The Football League to celebrate each club’s own contribution to the last 125 years of league football. *The results have been announced on the anniversary of The Football League’s formation on 17th April 1888 to bring down the curtain on a year of activity celebrating the start of the world’s original league football competition.
Nearly 100,000 votes were cast in the polls after clubs were first invited to compile their own shortlist for each category based on fans’ nominations via social media.
A club-by-club breakdown for each vote with more detail on the winners can be seen at*www.FL125.co.uk/brighton-hove-albion.
Supporters can find out more about The Football League’s 125th Anniversary at*www.FL125.co.uk. *Fans also still have a chance to visit a special exhibition called ‘Game Changers’ at the National Football Museum in Manchester celebrating 125 years of The Football League, with contributions from every club. *The exhibition is free to enter and open 7 days a week – for more details*click here.
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Zamora collected 42% of the votes cast after three prolific years with Brighton in which he registered over 80 goals, but Ward came in a solitary percentage point behind him with Mark Lawrenson, Brian Horton and Jimmy Case making up the top five.
Zamora sits alongside legends of the game including Brian Clough, Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Sir Stanley Matthews, Trevor Francis, Billy Bremner and Herbert Chapman who have all been named in a list of the greatest contributors to clubs’ league history in a vote as part of The Football League’s 125th Anniversary celebrations.
The names feature in lists for each of the current 72 Football League clubs’ greatest in various categories including managers, players, captains, fan favourites, matches and seasons. *The polls were run by The Football League to celebrate each club’s own contribution to the last 125 years of league football. *The results have been announced on the anniversary of The Football League’s formation on 17th April 1888 to bring down the curtain on a year of activity celebrating the start of the world’s original league football competition.
Nearly 100,000 votes were cast in the polls after clubs were first invited to compile their own shortlist for each category based on fans’ nominations via social media.
A club-by-club breakdown for each vote with more detail on the winners can be seen at*www.FL125.co.uk/brighton-hove-albion.
Supporters can find out more about The Football League’s 125th Anniversary at*www.FL125.co.uk. *Fans also still have a chance to visit a special exhibition called ‘Game Changers’ at the National Football Museum in Manchester celebrating 125 years of The Football League, with contributions from every club. *The exhibition is free to enter and open 7 days a week – for more details*click here.
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