Peter Harburn

Life and career Harburn was born in Shoreditch, London. he moved on to Brighton & Hove Albion, and turned professional with that club in February 1956 having bought himself out of the service. A few days later he was mistakenly named in the Great Britain squad preparing for the Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible.

In his first full season with Brighton, he scored 27 goals, including a sequence of 8 goals in 8 consecutive matches, a club record not beaten until 2001. The following season, 1957–58, Brighton finished as Third Division South champions. Harburn recalled the team were expected to take an attacking approach: "We scored 114 goals in our promotion year and I remember the manager Billy Lane telling us that when you see the whites of the goalposts whack it." He and Dave Sexton were joint top scorers with 20 goals in all competitions.

Harburn asked the club for an extra £1 a week, but was refused, The player himself thought he "wasn't ready for that quality of football", He scored in each of his first two games for Scunthorpe, and finished the season with 8 goals from 15 games, a return that "proved instrumental in the fight to avoid the drop" from the club's first season in the Football League Second Division. He played in the first five games of the following season, without scoring, but was deemed surplus to requirements after Harry Middleton's arrival from Wolverhampton Wanderers. He finished his Football League career with two seasons in the Fourth Division with Workington. After 50 games in charge, with 24 wins and 15 draws, Chelmsford sacked him, but he won a £601 compensation payment for wrongful dismissal.