Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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Bear with me on this but I awoke this morning thinking about the late Tony Millard.
Was sorting some stuff out last night and found a flyer for the first ever Gulls Eye Dinner at Chapmans in early 1989, we even had a bomb scare, rumoured to be a 'tired and emotional' Greg Stanley from the bar of the Blue Peter in Angmering.
Millard spoke that night, as did Vinners and John Lees, all very interesting, but Tony's especially as he touched upon two potential transfers which didn't go through in the 1979/80 season and highlighted the emerging fractious relationship between Mike Bamber and Alan Mullery.
Mullers wanted what were back then minimal funds to sign two players, Mullery and his scouting team had watched both a number of times and felt they were both exactly what Albion needed to establish themselves as something more than relegation fodder in the top flight.
The first was a young midfielder from Bolton Wanderers named Peter Reid, the second a young striker from Newport County, John Aldridge.
Despite not watching them himself, Bamber effectively stated "they weren't all that" and scuppered the deals by refusing to release the funds.
Within a decade both players would start in World Cup Quarter Finals.
Any others spring to mind?
Was sorting some stuff out last night and found a flyer for the first ever Gulls Eye Dinner at Chapmans in early 1989, we even had a bomb scare, rumoured to be a 'tired and emotional' Greg Stanley from the bar of the Blue Peter in Angmering.
Millard spoke that night, as did Vinners and John Lees, all very interesting, but Tony's especially as he touched upon two potential transfers which didn't go through in the 1979/80 season and highlighted the emerging fractious relationship between Mike Bamber and Alan Mullery.
Mullers wanted what were back then minimal funds to sign two players, Mullery and his scouting team had watched both a number of times and felt they were both exactly what Albion needed to establish themselves as something more than relegation fodder in the top flight.
The first was a young midfielder from Bolton Wanderers named Peter Reid, the second a young striker from Newport County, John Aldridge.
Despite not watching them himself, Bamber effectively stated "they weren't all that" and scuppered the deals by refusing to release the funds.
Within a decade both players would start in World Cup Quarter Finals.
Any others spring to mind?
