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4 unusual facts about Alfred Homer


Alfred Homer

Homer became Bristol Rovers' first full-time manager-secretary in 1899, a job he held for twenty-one years until 1920.

Homer's father, also called Alfred Homer, founded the Vulcan Brewery in Aston, Birmingham, in 1878.

Ben Appleby

He was signed by Rovers manager Alfred Homer in 1903 having played just a single game of League football, for West Bromwich Albion against Glossop North End in the Football League Second Division, but he immediately established himself as a regular in the Rovers' first team.

Bert Tann

He was the longest-serving post-war manager of Rovers, and the second longest overall behind Alfred Homer.



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