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Your First Experience of the Albion
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GoingUp
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The first memories are being a young kid, not sure how young but like a 6, 7 or 8 maybe, and standing in the North with my friend and his Dad, I just remember standing there, weird, think it might of been against Leyton Orion?
I also remember at different game with a mate, slightly older this time, offering Nicky Rust a chewing gum whilst they were warming up pre game hahaand him saying something back (he never took the chewing gum).
Another early memory was also walking along in the middle of Old Shoreham Road with my older brother after the game and thinking how cool it was as the road was all closed off because of the game haha
I also remember at different game with a mate, slightly older this time, offering Nicky Rust a chewing gum whilst they were warming up pre game hahaand him saying something back (he never took the chewing gum).
Another early memory was also walking along in the middle of Old Shoreham Road with my older brother after the game and thinking how cool it was as the road was all closed off because of the game haha
albionfan37
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90/91 I went on my own as we had only just moved to Brighton a few months before I think it was vs wolves and it finished 1-1 I don't know who scored I just know I loved every second and from that point on the Albion were my team
LowKarate
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batch_91
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I must have been 5 or 6 during the last season at the Goldstone ground. I remember going with my dad and dads mate and standing on an upturned milk crate, in what I think was the terraces of the east stand...although Ive no idea why I needed a height boost as I dont recall it being particularly busy.
I remember being on the pitch after the final game and the old man digging up a chunk of the centre circle to be buried in the back garden. I dont remember any of the game but a while ago was watching a bunch of youtube video's including Storer's goal. I had a real strong de-ja-vu moment of my view of the goal, later confirmed by dad about where abouts I had been stood all those years ago.
I remember being on the pitch after the final game and the old man digging up a chunk of the centre circle to be buried in the back garden. I dont remember any of the game but a while ago was watching a bunch of youtube video's including Storer's goal. I had a real strong de-ja-vu moment of my view of the goal, later confirmed by dad about where abouts I had been stood all those years ago.
Shropshire Seagull
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Almost the same for me ....
Got the programme (thanks eBay)
Boxing day 1967 at the Goldstone vs Gillingham aged 7
My Dad and Uncle took me - Uncle lived in Hangleton and we walked to the ground - they took me a little stool to stand on in the Chicken run.
Remember coming out of the ground, and only being knee-high to a grasshopper, being taken along in the swarming crowd
Had never experienced anything like it in my (short) life.
And the seed was sown ....
pearl
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he's 73 ... how time flies - thanks
hoveboyslim
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My Dad first took me when I was 2. I don't remember the game, so we probably lost.
46 years later we still go together.
46 years later we still go together.
Dolph Ins
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Grandpa took me to a game, I can't remember who or the score. I was about 6 or 7 so 1966/67. We were behind the South Stand goal and all I remember was how tall the floodlights were! Oh yes and during the warm up the ball flew over the net and hit me square on the head. The ball's were quite heavy then.
First away match was Palace on my own as a 15yo in the mid 70's. What on earth was I thinking?
First away match was Palace on my own as a 15yo in the mid 70's. What on earth was I thinking?
Brightonfan1983
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Me neither, I'm pretty sure my first game as a regular was March '86, Portsmouth at home. Dean Saunders, Steve Penney, Mick Ferguson, Alan Biley...!
(Sure you're not me?)
It's normally from CP (a wind-up), or Ipswich (jealous about our rise) intimating we're a plastic Reading or MKDons with a low historical fanbase. The underlying fanbase over the latter 65 odd years at the Goldstone was healthy, sometimes massive, despite two awful sets of Directors in the 80's and 90's.
The Sock of Poskett
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Got taken by my dad in 1972 aged 11, think it was a 2-2 draw v Northampton Town. Did a match report I submitted to Radio Brighton (as it was then). Didn't win. Think Fred Binney and Ken Beamish got the goals? Got me interested but first started going regularly (North Stand) in about 75/6. Golden years [emoji41]
Starstel
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Goldstone - South stand with my grandparents. I was 7 when my first game came around as it was a birthday treat. That would put it around October 86, Dean Saunders era. I mainly remember the walk as we always used to park on one of the roads off Sackville Road. Lived not far from there before I moved...
Fred Binney didn't sign until 1974.
I can't remember my first match but my dad took me to The Goldstone around 1972, he's not alive now to ask.
As a young lad Fred Binney was my first favourite Albion player a few years later.
Deportivo Seagull
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74/75 season, 2-2 draw with Swindon.
wolfie
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It was the opening game of the 1959-1960 season, at home to Aston Villa (I've got the programme to prove it) My Dad was a bus driver and was assigned to the football special. He came down the garden that morning (Aug 22) while I was playing with my pal from next door and said "come on, I'm taking you to the match". My pal started cheering, but Dad replied "not you". So it turned out that I was taken on the bus and sent in with the conductor (what's that ?, I hear you say) The old man wasn't a football fan - we had moved down from the smogs in 1954 and he had a passing interest in Charlton. He sat in his cab alongside Hove Park while we went into the Goldstone. I was given a crate to stand on in a 30k+ crowd. We were on the east terrace, but I don't remember seeing much at all. For the record: Albion 1 (Shepherd) Villa 2 (Sewell, McEwan) HT 1-1 Att. 31828. Like some previous posts, I remember the fag smoke, the smell of the linament and the awful bogs.
