Alan birchenall autobiography in five short
| A flamboyant footballer whose endless laughter and spirited love of life and the game spanned the enjoyable maverick era of the Sixties and Seventies. | |
| Alan John Birchenall, MBE (born 22 August 1945) is an English former footballer who played during the 1960s and 1970s as a forward. | |
| Keith Cooper was brought up in the Welsh town of Rhydyfelin, on the eastern bank of the River Taff. |
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“We didn’t have media departments in my day,” Birchenall laughs, who answered our call a few years ago to discuss times gone by. What followed was quite the entertaining discussion.
With 52 Palace appearances to his name, Birchenall only spent 15 months in south London, but says: “I did enjoy my time. I enjoyed my time everywhere, though. Bloody hell - how can you not enjoy being a footballer?”
From what follows, we find it hard to answer.
As he can for most of his career, Birchenall explains his arrival at Palace with a wry and vivid story.
“Me and Bobby Tambling came together from Chelsea,” he recalls. “I’d had a bad injury and missed the ‘70 cup final. I decided I needed football. A couple of clubs came in and then Palace did. They wanted Bobby as well.
“I said: ‘Bobby, do you fancy it?’ He says: ‘Well, do you?’ Palace had just come up to the old First Division so I said: ‘Let’s go down and talk. It’s a guy calle
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- Alan John Birchenall, MBE (born 22 August ) is an English former footballer who played during the s and s as a forward.
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
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- With 52 Palace appearances to his name, Birchenall only spent 15 months in south London, but says: “I did enjoy my time.
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- With 52 Palace appearances to his name, Birchenall only spent 15 months in south London, but says: “I did enjoy my time.