Bert LongstaffOutside right Bert (1885-1970) played for Brighton & Hove Albion 443 times over a period of 16 years after first helping his home town team Shoreham win the county treble in 1906. Nic, who lived in Gordon Road and Newbarn Road as a child, attended his first Brighton & Hove Albion game in 1967 and for 54 years has followed his beloved club the length and breadth of the UK. His last football book Death In Grimsby, published in 2019, became an Amazon best-seller. “The moment was Monday, April 1, 2019… the day I heard the news that my boyhood Brighton & Hove Albion hero Kit Napier had died at his home in Durban, South Africa, aged 75. “He later lived in Victoria Road, where I first went to school and in later life ran a beach kiosk in Hove.

Source: Express June 11, 2021 07:30 UTC