Look on the bright side

[David Holden]

It will be 365 days before we lose another FA Cup game

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Don't you just love an optimist?

[Slartibartfast]

364 now.

[eufckev]

Is this the countdown to the FA Cup next year?

 

We still have the FA Trophy, Setanta Shield, and Kent Cup. Not as high profile as the FA Cup, but still something to achieve and aim for.

 

Up the Fleet!

[kaizen]

Then there's the playoffs next year...

[EUFC FAN]

Well we did meet Alan Brown on Saturday... He spotted my mum's Kent County Cricket fleece and introduced himself. He may have been slightly offended that we had not heard of him, but he played in the great sixties Kent side. He said go “look in your books” about him. Well Alan I have:

 

He played for England in 1961/62 and for Kent 1957-1970. He is from Nottinghamshire. So why was he at an Ebbsfleet game? He played football as a centre-forward for Gravesend too.

[Hempstead Gaz]

I remember well the shout around Stonebridge Road "Wakey, wakey, Brownie boy!!"

[Hirsty]

Are you really that old CG ??

 

Cheers,

[Hempstead Gaz]

'fraid so.

Brownie was a big burly fast bowler for Kent in the summer -but a really crap batsman, and a big strong lumbering centre forward for Fleet in the winter. Imagine a cross between Tony Sitford and Nathan Bunce.................well, you get the picture.

That said, the pitch at Fleet in those days wasn't the best - I imagine the "full time professional" players of today would struggle to last 45 minutes on a quagmire, using heavy boots and a waterlogged, leather ball!

[American FLEET FAN No1]

He was also the first player that I can remember with a really long 'throw-in'. Trouble was there never seemed to be anyone to get on the end of it!