Tony joined the Supporters’ Club in 1993, the committee in 1994, and was chairman for two years from 1996 \u2013 the last season at the Goldstone and the first at Gillingham. Since that time he has been a general committee member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born in Hove almost under the floodlights of the old Goldstone Ground, he was taken to his first game was on his ninth birthday, 7 March 1970, when Albion beat Barnsley 2-0. Now the young Tony was hooked, and returned three weeks later for the 2-1 victory over Reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since that time he has been going to games regularly, rarely missing a home game and attending, on average, perhaps half of the away games. Tony has been to all the big matches in modern times: the FA Cup Final and replay in 1983, FA Cup semi-finals (1983, 2019 and 2023), both play-off finals (1991 and 2004), the last game at the Goldstone (1997), the game at Hereford that saw our League status preserved (1997), and all the promotion and relegation games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A season-ticket holder since 1992, Tony also wrote for a number of fanzines. Now a carer, he worked for many years as a chartered quantity surveyor in procurement, in a number of senior management positions in the transport sector primarily in and out of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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