Wrong-Direction
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Toys r us when I was a kid, burger king when I was a teen, dfs when I was an adult.
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Visting the Goldstone Ground
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pearl
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what are you now then?
Wrong-Direction
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SOMPTINGULL
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I avoided it for years, never driving past, averting my eyes on the train etc like many other posters. The old man was driving me once when we were late for something and went that way - I had a bit of a panic attack and never forgave him. I have however been to buy a sofa recently but could only bring myself to go there because we now have the Amex. I think a lot of my emotions regarding the site are to do with the friends we lost there and the crap we went through at the end.
Thunder Bolt
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Yes, I've been shopping there but was also involved in obtaining the Heritage Memorial board across the road in Hove Park. It was unveiled the day the Amex opened.
brighton fella
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However did they get away with it,
Please recall my memory didn't Chartwell buy it for some ridiculous figure like 8M to then go and sell it the following year for 20 plus. .Surely Archer and his sidekick Belloti must have been in with Chartwell thus reaping a tidy little profit for themselves the following year..
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My feelings are similar to this, but as I never lived in Brighton or Hove I had no need to purposely avoid the area. I think I may have driven (or been driven) past the site once, a number of years ago, but I averted my gaze as I had little inclination to see the site as it is now. In my mind's eye the Goldstone Ground is still as I remember it from hundreds of visits, and I'm in no rush to overwrite that memory.
pearl
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never been and never will, sounds sh*te anyway ... toyrus , burgerking, dfs .... and I haven't a clue what nandos is
Pretty pink fairy
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having nightmares about selling the GoldstoneNice one.
Iv'e been back there several times since but can understand some peoples anger. disgusting how it all happened.
You don't seem to hear of Archer and Belloti these days, I wonder how the pair of c*nts are doing.
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DR
brighton fella
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having nightmares about selling the Goldstone
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DR
That i don't mind but the thoughts of them living it up i do..
Full disclosure - I was also in that programme (in the pub, not at the Goldstone and for about three seconds). The whole point was to show "our journey" and Sky and Carling made the final edits, not Brett (which is why there's 3 seconds of me, I have a good face for radio). I think it's much more important that our full story is told to a wider audience now we're PL.
Personally I've stood in the car park of the Goldstone waiting for a lift from park run to football training and I know my wife has almost certainly been to Toys R Us, but I've never spent any of my own money there. I can walk past it without averting eyes though, in fact given I run in hove park sometimes it's impossible not to.
I don't think Brett deserves stick for filming there either. In fact, I hope what fans of other teams will think is "what a bland monstrosity, would've been much better as a football ground".
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Personally I've stood in the car park of the Goldstone waiting for a lift from park run to football training and I know my wife has almost certainly been to Toys R Us, but I've never spent any of my own money there. I can walk past it without averting eyes though, in fact given I run in hove park sometimes it's impossible not to.
I don't think Brett deserves stick for filming there either. In fact, I hope what fans of other teams will think is "what a bland monstrosity, would've been much better as a football ground".
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I do, however, take issue with Brett calling it "a ramshackle". No need for the 'a' Brettles, dear boy xx
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Mackenzie
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I haven't seen the programme, what is it called?
Silverhatch
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Said it loads of times... When the Freeholder/Leaseholder(s) (or both) build a proper monument to the Goldstone and the 95/6 years of history of BHAFC - then I will happily shop there. A £250 sign in Hove Park just doesn't do it for me. It's completely disrespectful on so many levels.
In off the Bar - Bournemouth v Brighton pre match. Starts on about 24 mins
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DiRT6xb7RI
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I've always shopped there, just being pragmatic. The retailers and current freeholder are untainted by the two RELATED land deals 20 years ago.
I know a Brighton based Spurs s/t holder who has always refused to shop there, due to the theft of a fellow club's ground.
I know a Brighton based Spurs s/t holder who has always refused to shop there, due to the theft of a fellow club's ground.
portlock seagull
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I'm protecting the last memory I had - midnight, moonlit having driven back from Hereford. Drove down, parked, got out and stood there on the Old Shoreham Road outside the North Stand. Took it all in, said goodbye and have never driven past since. 20 years ago now obviously and it's still 1997 in my memory bank and that's how it will remain until my dying breath.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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Was he even alive then though? Can be excused as being in nappies and not knowing any better perhaps? But yes, disrespectful albeit unintentionally.
crookie
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Never been back or driven past, easier I guess living 30 miles away. I was travelling in Australia in our last season there, and I'm slightly ashamed as I can't remember the last game I was at the Goldstone. I never have spent a penny in Wickes though, even though I know that wa**er hasn't owned it for years.
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