[Albion] How old were you when

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Poyningsgull

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• #61

Sept 1958 aged 8 v Liverpool at the goldstone. 2-2 draw.

 

dejavuatbtn

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Henfield

• Nov 26, 2017

• #62

Aged 9 in 1962.
I did take my eldest to a reserve game at the Goldstone when he was 6 months (in a sling under my overcoat).

 

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Jack Hackett

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• #63

7. 21st August 1971. Albion 3 Bradford City 1.

 

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fleet

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• #64

I think I was about 7

 

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Wardy's twin

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Charlies Shinpad said:

10 years old and I’m now 59 !!
Funnily enough I was speaking with an Albion fan on the train of a similar age to me and he said he was a Man Utd fan until we got The Amex
That was the end of my conversation with him !!

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Why? Maybe he was born there?

 

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maffew

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Wardy's twin said:

Why? Maybe he was born there?

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Dont be daft everyone knows NO one is actually born in Manchester

 

Worried Man Blues

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Dad took me once to the Goldstone some time before 68. But really started going with my school mates in 68. Blue shirts white sleeves. 14 then.

 

Charlies Shinpad

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Wardy's twin said:

Why? Maybe he was born there?

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No lives in Brighton as he told me that

 

Saladpack Seagull

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Halfway Up Virginia Is Where I Wanna Be.

• Nov 26, 2017

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Brovion said:

Same for me. As I said earlier I first went when I was 8 in 1966. I'd just moved into the area (Lancing) and I went with some new friends from my new school. The first time we went with some older boys - they were nine. No adults involved at all. And do you know what? We didn't get lost, murdered, abused by paedophiles or abducted by aliens. As you say, if a group of unaccompanied 8/9 year olds turned up at the Amex now there would be a witch hunt and the parents would probably be prosecuted.

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Great post. Reminds me of how, just before my eleventh birthday, my Great Uncle Harry gave me his Sussex CCC members badge and sent me (alone and on foot) from Second Avenue to the County Ground to watch some cricket! Unbelievably the stewards let me in and showed me the way to the Pavilion. Hooked there and then, especially when grown-up Members bought me sweets and ice-cream on finding out I was Harry's Great Nephew! Would never happen today. Fifty seasons later I'm still a Member and have never forgotten the kindness shown to the shy and somewhat solitary little boy that I was. I've always sat as close to my very first viewpoint as possible.

 

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Shy Talk

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Like many here, I was 7. In 1955, in the chicken run. We beat Walsall, who I thought at the time were a Polish team! My first international!

 

mr sheen

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8 in 1983. We lost, was ages before I saw us win.

 

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Wardy's twin

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12 or 13 I think , think we played Hartlepool and won 2-0 in 1968/9

 

ewe2

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• Nov 26, 2017

• #73

1962/3 @10

 

patchamalbion

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• #74

7 years old in the 1993/94 season

Beat Blackpool 3-2

 

ozzygull

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• Nov 26, 2017

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Pevenseagull said:

Never that interested in teams until the FA cup final in 83 and then that was that.

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Same band wagon jumper in 1983 11 year old Brighton in the FA cup final, and the town dressed in Blue and White. No interest in football up until that point.

 

poidy

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10 years of age. 20th March 1994. Leyton Orient @ home. 2-0 Brighton.


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Sirnormangall

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• #77

1964 age 7 with my Dad. Stood on a box in north west corner of the Goldstone with my wooden rattle ( which would now be classified as an offensive weapon!). I Remember the half time results were announced by putting numbers against the a-z board on the perimeter wall, checked against the a-z list in the programme - then someone invented the internet.

 

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BensGrandad

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1966? 23 years old and newly married and agreed with wife I would score if Brighton did. We scored 10 in the cup against Wisbech and 9 the following week at home to Southend. I think that she still owes me 4.

 

Pevenseagull

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• #79

Thing is, the F.A.Cup final day used to be MASSIVE.
And the Albion turned up in a ****ing helicopter

....and there were counts at my school in Eastbourne who STILL supported ****ing Forest.

Souless twats

 

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maffew

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BensGrandad said:

1966? 23 years old and newly married and agreed with wife I would score if Brighton did. We scored 10 in the cup against Wisbech and 9 the following week at home to Southend. I think that she still owes me 4.

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