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Stephen Brian Foster (born 24 September 1957) is an English former footballer. Football career. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Foster was an associate schoolboy with Southampton, but was not offered a professional contract. He started his professional career at Portsmouth in 1973 as a centre forward.
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Jun 14, 2024 · Stephen Foster, American composer whose popular minstrel songs and sentimental ballads achieved for him an honored place in the music of the United States. Among his most notable songs are ‘Oh! Susanna,’ ‘Camptown Races,’ ‘My Old Kentucky Home,’ and ‘Beautiful Dreamer.’
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It was the most famous headwear in football. The sight of Steve Foster sporting a white headband was one of the enduring images of the game in the early 1980s. This week, he revealed the real story behind it and how he deliberately tried to earn a red card in a bid to play in the FA Cup final.
Only once have Premier League newcomers Brighton previously played at this level. In 1979, manager Alan Mullery led them to promotion to the old First Division. That summer, he strengthened the team with the £130,000 signing of Foster, a young centre back from Portsmouth.
"It was probably the best football I played, week in week out," Foster told Sky Sports. "Playing all the big clubs like Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool. You just love that experience.
"Team spirit - that was very big in those days, especially for Brighton. We had really good players like Mark Lawrenson, Jimmy Case and Michael Robinson. There was a great rapport with the fans and the manager, Alan Mullery, was brilliant. Having good people around you - that's what helps."
Foster was playing with a point to prove. As a 16-year-old schoolboy striker he'd been released by Southampton.
"We were all called into the home changing room, one by one we had to go in and be told `yes' or `no'," he recalls. "I was told by the manager Lawrie McMenemy to walk out of the door, get my head up and prove him wrong."
As Brighton sought to establish themselves in the top division, Foster earned a reputation as one of the game's most impressive young players and - thanks to the headband that he'd begun to wear in every game - one of the most instantly recognisable. He says a clash of heads with the former Wolves striker Andy Gray was initially to blame.
Steve Foster was a centre back who played for Brighton in the 1980s and became the only Seagulls player to represent England at a World Cup. He also wore a white headband to protect his wound, tried to get sent off to play in the FA Cup final and captained Luton to a League Cup triumph.
Steven Eugene Foster Jr. (born August 16, 1966) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds from 1991 to 1993. Foster was the pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies from 2015 to 2021.
Oct 26, 2021 · The Rockies shook up their major-league coaching staff for the first time in several years, moving pitching coach Steve Foster off the bench and replacing him with bullpen coach Darryl Scott,...
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Jan 13, 2015 · The story of America's first professional songwriter, Stephen Foster, who penned such classics as "Oh! Susanna," "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Beautiful Dreamer."
