melias shoes
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Correct Sir. The Spurs fans didnt take too kindly to it though. The walk back and tube ride back to victoria was eventful. To say the least.
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Were you around in 1983
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Correct Sir. The Spurs fans didnt take too kindly to it though. The walk back and tube ride back to victoria was eventful. To say the least.
melias shoes
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Wasn't at that one but was at the cup win in 83. Now that was a day to remember too.
Yes the cup win was unreal. My favourite game of all time.
wigman
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Correct Sir. The Spurs fans didnt take too kindly to it though. The walk back and tube ride back to victoria was eventful. To say the least.
It sure was, but great memories.
Lurker
56 years and counting ...
It never ceases to amaze me how so many people can remember such individual details from those days.
My first game was in 1962, so by the 1979 - 1983 period I was in my prime and went to virtually every game home and away ... but I only remember tiny details from those days.
I have to admire you guys that remember individual passages of play from specific games.
I seem to recall loving every minute of being a top flight team, but a lot on here are telling me the football was dirge.
I don't remember that, but if you say so.........
I'll take my memories of Peter Ward on his day to my grave though, they will never go away!
I feel so, so sorry for you younger guys who never saw him live.
Incomparable ...........
My first game was in 1962, so by the 1979 - 1983 period I was in my prime and went to virtually every game home and away ... but I only remember tiny details from those days.
I have to admire you guys that remember individual passages of play from specific games.
I seem to recall loving every minute of being a top flight team, but a lot on here are telling me the football was dirge.
I don't remember that, but if you say so.........
I'll take my memories of Peter Ward on his day to my grave though, they will never go away!
I feel so, so sorry for you younger guys who never saw him live.
Incomparable ...........
Facinating thread! .... Just shows how football provides some of our greatest memories. And there's nothing wrong with that!
The truth is though - that the Goldsone ground and the clubs stucture in the past were hopelessly inadequate for maintaining top level football.
That's all changed! The club are now operating at a completely new level - virtually a new club - able to exploit the almost unrivalled potential of our 'premier' city - 'London by the Sea' at the heart of our stunning 'sexy' county of Sussex. Now, it's not a matter of 'if' we can reach the top level but only 'when'. I believe the future will be greater than the past.
I'm in my early seventies. I don't mind waiting a few more years as long as I have a decade or so in the pomised land. I'll cling on if necessary.
Oh! ... and by the way ..... nothing yet has surpassed that hot, packed, nervous, breathtaking result on the evening of 30 April 1958 - Brighton 6 Watford 0 (Adrian 5) to clinch the Albion's first ever promotion. The ultimate in football exhilaration.
The truth is though - that the Goldsone ground and the clubs stucture in the past were hopelessly inadequate for maintaining top level football.
That's all changed! The club are now operating at a completely new level - virtually a new club - able to exploit the almost unrivalled potential of our 'premier' city - 'London by the Sea' at the heart of our stunning 'sexy' county of Sussex. Now, it's not a matter of 'if' we can reach the top level but only 'when'. I believe the future will be greater than the past.
I'm in my early seventies. I don't mind waiting a few more years as long as I have a decade or so in the pomised land. I'll cling on if necessary.
Oh! ... and by the way ..... nothing yet has surpassed that hot, packed, nervous, breathtaking result on the evening of 30 April 1958 - Brighton 6 Watford 0 (Adrian 5) to clinch the Albion's first ever promotion. The ultimate in football exhilaration.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Nah, was yet to be born for another 7 years yet. Such a shit JCL, I know
Schoolboy error!
Forest yes, we did the double over them but 1st game in 1979 against Liverpool? Are you sure about that?
My first game that was
thedonkeycentrehalf
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The away game v Liverpool in 79/80 was special for me as an 11 year old. Up very early to drive up to Anfield (pre-M25/M40 days) and took an old lady who lived nearby with us as she was a Liverpool fan and wanted one last trip to Anfield. Arrived at Anfield lunchtime and went into the ticket office there (can't remember why) only to find the late, great Bob Paisley talking to someone behind the counter. Of course, our little old lady was gobsmacked at this, even more so when he turned round and started speaking to us. Got him to sign my programme and managed to get most of the players signatures as we stood by the tunnel. Unfortunately, someone nicked it from my Dad's pocket on the way back to the car.
The game itself was one of our better performances that season and we were only undone when, I think, a foul on Nobby Horton was missed by the ref and this gave them space to score the winner.
It was also my first experience of Merseyside police and those ling sticks. We parked nearby and there were some junior hoolies running through the car park chased by the police. They caught a couple of them and gave them a good crack across the wrists with these big sticks on some car bonnet. Put a nice dent in the bonnet but the police didn't seem to care about that and just carried on chasing the rest of the kids.
The game itself was one of our better performances that season and we were only undone when, I think, a foul on Nobby Horton was missed by the ref and this gave them space to score the winner.
It was also my first experience of Merseyside police and those ling sticks. We parked nearby and there were some junior hoolies running through the car park chased by the police. They caught a couple of them and gave them a good crack across the wrists with these big sticks on some car bonnet. Put a nice dent in the bonnet but the police didn't seem to care about that and just carried on chasing the rest of the kids.
Pretty pink fairy
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Its All Too Beautiful
I was with my mates halfway up the terrace, behind the Sheffield Wednesday goal, when Jimmy Case scored from that free kick in the semi final at Highbury. Its part of the montage on the big screen before our home matches, still makes me smile,
portslade seagull
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Went to all the games home and away in our 1st div days was much cheaper when you bunked the trains
nicko31
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Can honestly say I cried as a kid when we lost 4-0 in the replay, does seem a long time ago now
I was there too. That was a special goal, eh? Brings a lump to the throat.
sydney
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1st game in div 1 was Arsenal at the Goldstone........another eventfull one...!!
Not Andy Naylor
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The problem for many fans was they'd had too much, much too young. Or something similar. After several seasons of big wins against inferior teams, being on the wrong end of a couple of drubbings and scrambling the odd point against Stoke and Coventry wasn't quite the same.
But humdrum? Beating Palace 3-0 on Boxing Day at the Goldstone and over Easter at Selhurst, putting four past Man City twice, doing the double over European champions Nottingham Forest, winning at Anfield in successive seasons, beating Arsenal at home two years in a row, beating Keegan's Saints at The Dell, 3-3 draws at Coventry and home to Liverpool, home wins over Tottenham, West Ham, Everton, Villa the season they won the league ... yeah, four pretty dull years when I think back.