The name of Terry Evans features in three of the categories as a Brentford great in a poll conducted with the club’s fans as part of The Football League's 125th Anniversary celebrations.

Terry Evans, now 49, spent eight years with The Bees after being plucked from non-league football and made more than 200 Football League appearances between 1985 and 1993.

He featured in Brentford’s rise to the second tier of the English game in the early 1990s and his legendary status at Griffin Park is backed up by him being voted the club’s greatest ever captain and all-time fans’ favourite.

In the captain poll he received 41 per cent of the votes to beat Ken Coote, Joe James, Jimmy Bain and Arthur Bateman to the title, while he also registered 44 per cent to take the fans’ favourite title, ahead of Peter Gelson, Jamie Bates, Gary Blissett and Terry Hurlock.

Terry Evans picked up 25 per cent of the greatest ever player vote but that only saw him finish second in the poll to Jim Towers, who won with 33 per cent.

Also in the running were Leslie Smith, Jack Holliday and Terry Hurlock again.

Jim Towers is the club’s all-time leading goal scorer, netting 153 times for the Bees in the 1950’s and early 1960’s to secure his legendary status before being sold to Queens Park Rangers.

Terry Evans meanwhile was a big part of Brentford’s 1991/92 season which saw them promoted to what was the new First Division, a campaign which was voted the club’s greatest and had two particularly memorable results – a 4-0 win over Fulham came out on top of that particular poll with just over half of the votes, followed by a 1-0 victory at Peterborough United.

Brentford Manager at that time was Phil Holder but he only came fourth in the managerial vote with Harry Curtis leading the way on 54 per cent, ahead of Martin Allen.

Harry Curtis took charge of The Bees for an astonishing 705 matches between May 1926 and February 1949.

The Brentford winners sit alongside legends of the game including Brian Clough, Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Tom Finney, Billy Wright, Sir Stanley Matthews, Trevor Francis, Billy Bremner and Herbert Chapman who have all been named in a list of the greatest contributors to clubs’ league history in a vote as part of The Football League’s 125th Anniversary celebrations.

The names feature in lists for each of the current 72 Football League clubs’ greatest in various categories including managers, players, captains, fan favourites, matches and seasons.

The polls were run by The Football League to celebrate each club’s own contribution to the last 125 years of league football.

The results have been announced on the anniversary of The Football League’s formation on April 17 1888 to bring down the curtain on a year of activity celebrating the start of the world’s original league football competition.

Nearly 100,000 votes were cast in the polls after clubs were first invited to compile their own shortlist for each category based on fans’ nominations via social media.

A list of the winners in each category can be seen at www.FL125.co.uk/vote.

Supporters can find out more about The Football League’s 125th Anniversary at www.FL125.co.uk.

Fans also still have a chance to visit a special exhibition called ‘Game Changers’ at the National Football Museum in Manchester celebrating 125 years of The Football League, with contributions from every club.

The exhibition is free to enter and open seven days a week – for more details visit http://po.st/GameChangers.