two days a week with Second Division club Crystal Palace. Butler and Gall contributed 26 goals apiece as Maidstone won the 1989 Conference title, thus earning promotion to the Fourth Division of the Football League. Gall and his club made their Football League debuts on 19 August 1989, as Maidstone lost 1–0 away at Peterborough United. His first League goals came on 16 September, scoring twice in a 3–2 defeat of Grimsby Town. Gall and Butler's partnership continued into the Football League. By the end of the regular season, they had scored 39 League goals between them to help the club to fifth position and a place in the semi-final of the first ever Fourth Division play-offs. Playing Cambridge United away from home, Maidstone fell a goal behind, but in the 90th minute of the match, Gall scored an equaliser: a long throw was headed against his own crossbar by Cambridge striker Dion Dublin, helping out in defence, and the rebound fell for Gall seven yards out. In the home leg, with the game goalless and "heading for injury time, Gall found himself clean through but could only put the ball wide". In the play-offs, the away goals rule applied only after extra time, and Cambridge scored twice in the extra 30-minute period to progress to the final. He scored 31 goals for the club from 85 League games before signing for Brighton & Hove Albion for a £45,000 fee in October 1991, as a replacement for John Byrne, who had just transferred to Sunderland for £225,000. Despite only joining the club two months into the season, the "ever-willing and speedy" Gall finished as Brighton's top scorer, with 14 goals in all competitions (13 in the League). He "quickly became a crowd favourite in a struggling side", and was chosen as the club's Player of the Season. He never played professional football again. After two operations on his left knee, Gall retired on specialist medical advice in December 1992 and resumed working in the family bakery. References 1963 births Living people Footballers from Brixton English footballers Association football forwards Maidstone United F.C. (1897) players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players National League (English football) players English Football League players Greenwich Borough F.C. players