Mark Gall
professional footballer (born 1963)
Mark Ian Gall (born 14 May 1963) is an English former professional footballer who scored 44 goals from 116 appearances in the Football League playing as a forward for Maidstone United and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Gall came to prominence as a goalscorer with Greenwich Borough in the Kent League before the manager of Maidstone United, then a Conference club, took a chance on him. Gall reproduced his scoring form at the higher level, helping the club to promotion into the Football League and coming close to a second consecutive promotion. A move to the Second Division with Brighton & Hove Albion brought him another 14 goals and the club's Player of the Year award before a knee injury put an end to his professional career after only three seasons.
Career
Gall was born in Brixton, south London. A prolific scorer for Greenwich Borough in the Kent League, playing part-time while employed in his father's bakery, he was watched by representatives of several Football League clubs. Loss of form – attributed by the player himself to an inability to concentrate because "so many clubs were watching me was on my mind a lot" – caused him to lose his place. He signed for Conference club Maidstone United in February 1988 for a £2,000 fee. Maidstone manager John Still was nevertheless surprised that no League club had been prepared to risk such a small sum on a player of potential, albeit one playing at an "fairly low" level.
Gall scored 14 goals from as many games for Maidstone in what remained of the 1987–88 season,
and added another four in the opening two games of the next.
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