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[Football] The first Brighton team in the football league wasn't Albion!



fataddick

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Feb 6, 2004
1,601
The seaside.
OK, a slightly clickbaity thread title, but technically accurate. Just watched this five minute YouTube video covering some of the 50+ other Brightons (and New Brightons) around the world that are named after our one.

There's a New Brighton up by Liverpool that was created in the 1830s by a Northern entrepreneur as a copy of Sussex Brighton. As the video mentions it had a football team New Brighton Tower FC that was a league club (second division) from 1898-1901, ie before Albion was even founded. A successor team called New Brighton AFC was actually in the football league until the 1950s. They both played at a stadium with a 100,000 capacity! Weird how these clubs are so little known these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzbLFyoQH8
 


GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
46,466
Gloucester
OK, a slightly clickbaity thread title, but technically accurate. Just watched this five minute YouTube video covering some of the 50+ other Brightons (and New Brightons) around the world that are named after our one.

There's a New Brighton up by Liverpool that was created in the 1830s by a Northern entrepreneur as a copy of Sussex Brighton. As the video mentions it had a football team New Brighton Tower FC that was a league club (second division) from 1898-1901, ie before Albion was even founded. A successor team called New Brighton AFC was actually in the football league until the 1950s. They both played at a stadium with a 100,000 capacity! Weird how these clubs are so little known these days.
Even stranger is he fact that at that 100,000 capacity stadium (the same one for both clubs) the record attendance was................................16,000! And that was after they'd ceased to be a league club!
 




Shropshire Seagull

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Nov 5, 2004
8,477
Telford
For those with time and money on their hands - never mind the 92-club - how about visiting every place on the planet with "Brighton" in the name?
Has the making of a superb retirement holiday project and book [lots of photos] to maybe recover [some] costs
 


Taybha

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Oct 8, 2008
27,135
Uwantsumorwat
Seem to remember lots of Aussie teams with the Brighton name when i used to do the littlewoods Aussie pools many years ago .
 




Gazwag

5 millionth post poster
Mar 4, 2004
30,093
Bexhill-on-Sea
Even stranger is he fact that at that 100,000 capacity stadium (the same one for both clubs) the record attendance was................................16,000! And that was after they'd ceased to be a league club!

TBF in 1898 you could call an open field behind one of the goals part of the stadium and theoretically fit 94,000 in that field.
 


el punal

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There are 43 places in the world called Brighton - 26 are in the USA, 3 in Australia, 2 in France and even one in Bolivia. The Bolivian one has a crossroads, with a motel next to it, and is situated in the region of El Beni, where the local population wear woolie hats.
 


Shropshire Seagull

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Nov 5, 2004
8,477
Telford
There are 43 places in the world called Brighton - 26 are in the USA, 3 in Australia, 2 in France and even one in Bolivia. The Bolivian one has a crossroads, with a motel next to it, and is situated in the region of El Beni, where the local population wear woolie hats.

Club shop need to open franchises in these places - could make a killing ...
 




Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
24,720
Worthing
For those with time and money on their hands - never mind the 92-club - how about visiting every place on the planet with "Brighton" in the name?
Has the making of a superb retirement holiday project and book [lots of photos] to maybe recover [some] costs

Like a few suspects I only have Brighton Beach at Coney Island to list but that was a iconic day for me and anyone else who visited mainly because they saw a certain film in the 70’s.
 


AZ Gull

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Oct 14, 2003
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Chandler, AZ
There are 43 places in the world called Brighton - 26 are in the USA, 3 in Australia, 2 in France and even one in Bolivia. The Bolivian one has a crossroads, with a motel next to it, and is situated in the region of El Beni, where the local population wear woolie hats.

There is also an Albion in Mendocino County in California, about 15 miles south of Fort Bragg:-

Albion.jpg
 



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