Visting the Goldstone Ground

Papa Lazarou

Living in a De Zerbi wonderland

Jul 7, 2003

18,858

Worthing

• Sep 19, 2017

• #1

Morning NSC

You may have come across the short Sky Sports video that Brett Mendoza, who I don't think posts on here anymore, was involved in, documenting his love for the Albion, and where we've come from (in his lifetime as a supporter).

One section includes him being interviewed in the car park of what was once the Goldstone Ground, for which he's come under some criticism on social media for doing.

It got me thinking - I know that many Albion fans will never step foot on the site, but others were waiting until we got Falmer... which camp are you in?

 

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy

Jul 5, 2003

71,959

Living In a Box

• Sep 19, 2017

• #2

I am in the camp, shit happened, move on and do whatever you want to do

 

Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003

39,067

West Sussex

• Sep 19, 2017

• #3

Never have and hopefully never will. I don't even drive past.

 

Randsta

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Aug 8, 2011

2,997

Eastbourne

• Sep 19, 2017

• #4

I've been to Nandos there .....I don't feel bad! it was a long time ago

 

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.

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Mar 16, 2005

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Chandlers Ford

• Sep 19, 2017

• #5

I don't shop there as I've no reason to. But if I wanted something they sold there, I'd go, no probs.

The loss of the Goldstone is in no way whatsoever the fault of the retailers that now occupy the site. What's the point?

 

nicko31

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Jan 7, 2010

17,567

Gods country fortnightly

• Sep 19, 2017

• #6

No problem driving past but no intention to shop there, its sacred ground

 

Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012

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• Sep 19, 2017

• #7

Won't set foot there, never will.

 

Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch

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Oct 27, 2003

21,003

The arse end of Hangleton

• Sep 19, 2017

• #8

I have been there ( kid's toys ! ) but it was only after we got final planning permission. I purposely overstayed as well just to get a ticket and wind up the private ticketing company ( well it amused me anyway ! ).

 

Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012

4,683

• Sep 19, 2017

• #9

Randsta said:

I've been to Nandos there .....I don't feel bad! it was a long time ago

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You should feel bad, nandos is awful.

 

Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003

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The Fatherland

• Sep 19, 2017

• #10

I didn't go back for a number of years even though I lived locally. Mainly as it was upsetting. But it's all turned out fine so I'd have no issue shopping there.... if they sold anything I would buy.

 

Oscar

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Nov 10, 2003

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• Sep 19, 2017

• #11

Didn't even so much as look at the place for years after the last game. Then we had a child and he eventually found out there is a Toys R Us in Brighton after all.

Of course I never miss an opportunity to school him on the hallowed ground he is walking on as he peruses the aisles of Star Wars and Marvel figures.

 

Herr Tubthumper

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The Fatherland

• Sep 19, 2017

• #12

Gabbafella said:

You should feel bad, nandos is awful.

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It's not "awful". I think you're being snobby.

 

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Springal

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Feb 12, 2005

23,830

GOSBTS

• Sep 19, 2017

• #13

Never understood fans that boycott it especially as we now have the Amex.

To give a fellow fan stick now is pretty poor and likely to be keyboard warriors / trolls.

 

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP

Jul 5, 2003

61,750

Location Location

• Sep 19, 2017

• #14

Been there plenty of times when there was a Comets or a Currys, in fact I think I bought my last TV there. Whats done is done, we came through it, and just look at us now. Going there now or driving past it does not affect my memories of it when it was the Goldstone, they're still all safely stored in my mental hard-drive. Nobody can take that away. Not until I go senile anyway.

 

Yoda

English & European

Mar 1, 2004

10,056

Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom

• Sep 19, 2017

• #15

Don't have the need to shop there but if I did, it wouldn't bother me too much (there'll always be a small part me that thinks its wrong). Like the time I was at Hove Park and needed to get something from the sports shop that was there at the time 13-14 years ago.

 

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Ecosse Exile

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May 20, 2009

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Alicante, Spain

• Sep 19, 2017

• #16

My ex wife took my son there to toys are us, not long after it opened, he was about 7 i think (my god, how time flies!) He refused to go in and sat in the car, mum was furious, got home had a go at me, i just laughed, tussled his hair and said "well done son"

 

Gritt23

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Jul 7, 2003

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Meopham, Kent.

• Sep 19, 2017

• #17

I walked out of the back of the North Stand after the Doncaster game, and couldn't bring myself to look back. I have never so much as been past on the Old Shoreham Road since. If I go through Hove on the train, I have to look South, the park is a no-go area, and I avert my gaze if I'm heading down Sackville Road.

I was a mess of diversions to avoid the area for many years, saying I would never be able to bring myself to go past (shopping there is an obvious NO) until we were back in Brighton, in a shiny new stadium. But now we are, I no longer live in the area, and it's just so easy to avoid that part of town, that I continue to do so.

I have no plans for that to change.

 

Perry Milkins

Just a quiet guy.

Aug 10, 2007

6,154

Ardingly

• Sep 19, 2017

• #18

Papa Lazarou said:

Morning NSC

You may have come across the short Sky Sports video that Brett Mendoza, who I don't think posts on here anymore, was involved in, documenting his love for the Albion, and where we've come from (in his lifetime as a supporter).

One section includes him being interviewed in the car park of what was once the Goldstone Ground, for which he's come under some criticism on social media for doing.

It got me thinking - I know that many Albion fans will never step foot on the site, but others were waiting until we got Falmer... which camp are you in?

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Is it not more poignancy here whereas how many of us give Wickes our 'hard earned' for some wallpaper paste or pack of screws?

 

Perry Milkins

Just a quiet guy.

Aug 10, 2007

6,154

Ardingly

• Sep 19, 2017

• #19

Gritt23 said:

I walked out of the back of the North Stand after the Doncaster game, and couldn't bring myself to look back. I have never so much as been past on the Old Shoreham Road since. If I go through Hove on the train, I have to look South, the park is a no-go area, and I avert my gaze if I'm heading down Sackville Road.

I was a mess of diversions to avoid the area for many years, saying I would never be able to bring myself to go past (shopping there is an obvious NO) until we were back in Brighton, in a shiny new stadium. But now we are, I no longer live in the area, and it's just so easy to avoid that part of town, that I continue to do so.

I have no plans for that to change.

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same.

 

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PoG

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Oct 29, 2013

1,117

• Sep 19, 2017

• #20

I worked there for a long long time whilst studying, does that count?