wolfie
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I was under the TV scaffolding and can vividly remember JH struggling to climb the ladder to everybody's cheers.
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1973 Chelsea Cup tie - were you there ?
- Thread starter chaileyjem
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I was under the TV scaffolding and can vividly remember JH struggling to climb the ladder to everybody's cheers.
I was reminded by [MENTION=118]Hiney[/MENTION] 's rather wonderful programmes archive that its the anniversary of *that* 1973 cup tie at the Goldstone. Today.
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There's a great Big Match of the highlights with of all people; Jimmy Hill doing the commentary via
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5vwvaDcc0
It was my first ever Albion game. My Dad had secured me a crate to stand on. My memory is a little hazy but i think i must have been standing about here. I still sit next to my Dad in the Amex West Stand ...44 years later. Next to my sons.. No crates required.
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Anyone else on here remember going ?
That my first season of going with my mates from Bognor, rather than with my Dad. I was close to where that arrow is, mainly because it was close to the little programme booth in the NW corner. That season came to a disappointing end for me on the way back from the Nottingham Forest game.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Think you may be confusing this game with the Derby game a few seasons later?
el punal
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I remember this one. They were all in the Cricketers and had their first ever of pint of Watney's Red Barrel, had a sip then ran down to the prom to drink some seawater to get rid of the taste.
el punal
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Unless it was the Chelsea cup tie of 1967. Tickets were sold at the reserves game against Notts County which had an "attendance" of 22,000+/-.
el punal
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Chelsea played in an unusual strip of red shirts, white shorts and green socks.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Fair enough. That was before my time at the goldstone. I'm pretty sure we just bought tickets for the 1973 game.
Thinking about it , i may have been referring to the league cup game v wolves a few seasons earlier , lol
wolfie
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It was definitely the 1967 game. I went to both matches - remember the South Stand being rammed for the reserve match.
Just got my history book out as I remember reading about this.
Definitely 1967, you are correct el punal.
luppers
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You are right. If I remember correctly at the replay there were over 60000 there .I was stuck at the back and needed a telescope to see the game!
Not far off, 54,852. Just been reading about it. Massive crowd that, shame about the result.
Sussex Nomad
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I went to the game in the back of a Transit van with about 10 others, I was only 9. They all shoved me to the front when we were standing in the north west. But I am so confused because I could have sworn the lights were on and Chelsea were in yellow. Oh shit I'm getting old.
Lights would have been on, it was January.
AnotherArch
Northern Exile
in the North Stand for that one. Remember that Steve Piper totally bossed Osgood that afternoon.
too young for that one ! reckon it was both then !
Sussex Nomad
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The player that got me loving football, Ossy I mean. What a player.
Sussex Nomad
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Now you mention it, my mum would never have let me go to football on a school night.