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Anyone know of an Albion fan from Southwick, aged 50 or 51, called Ian Stacey?



Goldstone Rapper

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From Match Weekly in 1980:

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Anyway, on The Goldstone Ground Facebook group, we're trying to track him down... would love to get a few comments from him.
 






Elvis

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So if he started drinking at 15 then he was probably pissed on the bus therefore, it probably wasnt even Gary Stevens he bumped into.
 
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Stat Brother

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Elvis said:
So if he started drinking at 15 then he was probably pissed on the bus therefore, it probably was even Gary Stevens he bumped into.
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Or the Albion turned the boy Ian to alcohol.
 


Goldstone Rapper

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Fame in Match Weekly can do that to you.
 








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Can't be the real Ernest, though. No repetition in the letter.
 




Bwian

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I'm the right age, and from the right place, and got Match Weekly. But it wasn't me.

I did get a letter at about that time in the Guardian though. It was when some clubs were thinking of merging, and I suggested that Crystal Palace, QPR, and Charlton Athletic could become one and call themselves "Charlton Rangers And Palace" which would look good as an acronym. It appealed to the Grauniad's sense of humour anyway...

I'm not sure Gary Stevens would have been on the bus from Southwick. Mark Lawrenson & Gary Williams lived in Church Lane (I think), but I don't think Gary Stevens did?
 




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I can’t help noticing how the magazine has totally distorted young Ian’s words. Steven’s had merely stated to young Ian that he read Match Weekly every week but the journalist has completely twisted his words and misleadingly portrayed Steven’s as a Match Weekly obsessive unfairly labeling him an “avid” reader of the magazine when there was nothing in Ian’s letter to suggest any such thing. The magazine also implies that Steven’s “persuaded” young Ian to start reading the magazine when Steven’s had used no such strong arm tactics to coerce and intimidate the young boy into buying the magazine, Steven’s had merely made a casual passing remark that he read that particular magazine on a weekly basis. It is this sort of irresponsible reporting that gives journalism a bad name and I’m wondering if the obvious distress caused to young Ian, when he saw how he had been so callously misrepresented, had in any way contributed to his downward spiral.
 




Icy Gull

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Probably became a fan of another team when we became shit again, plenty did.
 




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