BHAFC The Glory Years Part 1 - Who went to Newcastle V BHAFC 1979

Uncle Spielberg · Dec 1, 2009

Who on here went to St Jame's Park at the game in April 1979 when BHAFC won promotion to the top flight with a 3-1 win at Newcastle. 3-0 up at half time the class of 79 battered Newcastle in their own back yard.

We took 10000 fans.

Were you one of them ?.

Recite your memories of the day.

Fungus · Dec 1, 2009

Uncle Spielberg said:
Recite your memories of the day.

Hiding our colours, and keeping quiet on the way from the station to the ground - people trying to find out if we had southern accents!

Uncle Spielberg · Dec 1, 2009

I still have the audio tape of the whole commentary of the game somewhere. I listened to it at home and did a dance in the back garden at 5pm and cried.

defrocked priest · Dec 1, 2009

LE2 said:
Hiding our colours, and keeping quiet on the way from the station to the ground - people trying to find out if we had southern accents!

Yep and I was 14 at the time.

Uncle Spielberg · Dec 1, 2009

I was a mere 16. Wanted to go but was too young. Stayed at home with Mummy and Daddy and listened to the radio.

defrocked priest · Dec 1, 2009

we won my dusty noggin' seems to recall.

GT49er · Dec 1, 2009

I did TRY to go. I was living in Edinburgh at the time, and duly set out to drive over those glorious border hills to Newcastle. I was nearly half way there when my clapped out Triumph Herald boiled over and stopped. By the time it was cool enough and willing to start again, it was well past half time, we were 3-0 up, so I listened to the rest of the commentary and nursed the poor little banger back to Edinburgh.
Shagged an ex-girlfriend to celebrate, if I remember rightly....................

Gwylan · Dec 1, 2009

One of my biggest regrets of my life was that I didn't go to this game. I was at uni and Newcastle was less than 100 miles away - and I'd been to most of the northern games that season but I had a hot date that night, so I didn't go.

Not only did I miss one of the best Albion games ever but I got stood up too.

robbie c · Dec 1, 2009

cheap beer; very cheap beer and tooting at all the cars with their scarves out on the A1 on the sunday afternoon going home

Eddie Bee · Dec 1, 2009

Great day apart from a smashed window on our coach on the way back, It was freezing.

defrocked priest · Dec 1, 2009

Better football than that rubbish we saw tonight. :lolol:

Lincolnshire Seagull · Dec 1, 2009

Brilliant! I got in a bit of trouble for going cos my daughter was about to be born, but it was worth it. Main memories - Nobby's diving header, and the applause the Newcastle fans gave us at the end. I cried. Great days.

daveinprague · Dec 1, 2009

I was the bloke who telexed the BBC south radio station from a hut in the middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia and made the staff there give me a running commentary via telex haha.
Celebrated with the stunning concoction of Siddiqui (sugar, yeast and water, and the name meaning 'my friend')

cjd · Dec 1, 2009

Was brilliant.

We could travel all the way home discussing the teams we would be playing the following season, without the fear factor that effects todays promoted sides.

We didn't get 60 million from Sky, but we didn't need it in those days. If you were good enough to get promoted, you were generally good enough to survive in Division 1.

Live league matches were never on the telly, so at last, we could see Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool, Leeds, Tottenham etc etc in the flesh.......bloody marvellous.

Two Professors · Dec 1, 2009

Was in Germany at the time but commentary was on BFBS & lots of Asbach Uralt was consumed-not the only time Albion have caused me severe headaches though :ohmy:

Brightonfan1983 · Dec 1, 2009

Uncle Spielberg said:
I still have the audio tape of the whole commentary of the game somewhere. I listened to it at home and did a dance in the back garden at 5pm and cried.

BLIMEY!!

Get it on discs and sell them to us for REMF!!!!!

Publius Ovidius · Dec 1, 2009

yup....5 of us in a huge citroen thing..

Great day

fosters headband · Dec 1, 2009

Yep I was there and got a good kicking from a group of Sunderland fans when walking across the car park on my own after the game.

PILTDOWN MAN · Dec 2, 2009

travelled up on the friday my dad borrowed a brand new Granada from his work which we slept in overnight prior to the game. Great day got back in the early hours of sunday and made our way down to the goldstone in the morning. good memories for an eleven year old

Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo! · Dec 2, 2009

Four of us in an Austin Maxi hired for the weekend from Wadham Stringer at the corner of Old Shoreham Road and Sackville Road.
Stayed at Leicester Univ on the Friday night and collected a fifth supporter in the morning. Free beer in a Newcastle city centre pub before the game (barman was an Albion fan), stood directly behind the goal so had a a great view of Nobbie Horton's header. Anyone else remember David Bobin(?) from Southern ITV getting some serious abuse when he tried to conduct a pre-match interview in front of the Brighton fans?
Shot champagne corks out of the car on the A1 and then went drinking in rural Leicestershire that evening. Woke up early morning somewhere on the Bosworth battlefield but made it back to the Stadium in Holmes Avenue in time for a lunchtime pint.

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