Brighton & Hove Albion WONDER Goals

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

Runner up and it was a cross anyway.

My favourite was when Peter Sayer took a knock down from Teddy Maybank and volleyed the ball from about 25 yards. However, for shere excitment I would say the tap in well into ijury time by Eric Potts against Sunderland was my best moment. Sunderland had scored early on, run the match and should have had a couple more. Potts came on in the 90th minute and yet managed to not only score an equaliser but then he scored the winner. Neither were classics but for shere pandamonium I can rarely remember better.

I remember dashing on the final whistle to Hove station and telling a couple of Sunderland fans on the train what happened. They'd left when it was 1-0 and didn't really believe me. I didn't laugh until they left me at Brighton, wouldve been rubbing salt in their wounds.

 

[fire&skill]

I'm sure the historians will shoot me down in flames but like the bloke in Channel 5's twisty-turny thriller, 'Flash Forward' I've got a recurring series of short, sharp memories which includes:

a] Mark Lawrenson
b] A blasted free kick from about thirty yards
c] Boxing Day and
d] Cardiff City.

Or was it all . . . . just a dream? (Fades to swirling harp music . . . .)

 

[sod1]

Mark (I'm sure I never played for Brighton) Lawrenson against Wolves at The Goldstone. Picked the ball up in our own penalty area, beat the entire Wolves team on his own taking the ball up the other end and scored.

spot on ! it was a league cup game if my memory serves me right

 

[Geriatric Seagull]

One for the oldies!

Bob McNichol -F.A. Cup 1961 v. Burnley. Must have been at least 45 yards out on the right. 3-3 draw.

Alan Duffy's goal in his first game.
Kit Napier against Bournemouth.
Mark Lawrenson.
etc etc - there's been so many.

 

[Uncle Buck]

How very true. Everything touch of brilliance that the Football Genius treated us to had an extra je ne sais quoi simply by virtue of it being created by him. My favourite would have to be scoring from a corner while sitting on his arse (Cambridge?).

The goal direct from a corner was at Wrexham.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Nelson - Brentford - Fa cup 1987.
It was great because we were down the side terrace under cover and behind the goal he scored in as well so it was a double eruption!

 

[J-Scott]

Dean Cox v Swansea,
Chippy v Sheffield Wednesday,
Kevin McLeod v Northampton.

In fact, Richard Carpenter in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxzeyFwQg0

 

[withdeanwombat]

Whenever this comes up (2 or 3 times per season),the answer is always Willie Irvine against Aston Villa 25/3/72.

Sorry youngsters,it just IS.

Funny thing is,it's its birthday today.Happy Birthday Willie Irvine's wondergoal !!

 

[perseus]

Peter Ward against the whole Mansfield defence in a promotion match (Mansfield were Champions) in the Division 3 promotion season. The special thing about Wardy was the speed and deception *(worked better at the lower levels) a style only ever shared by Greavsie and perhaps Rodney Marsh, Maradona and Georgie Best. Bobby Z comes close and has other skills as well. That did not make Wardy the best player, but made him the most exciting to watch. Kit Napier and Gary Nelson had the style but without the speed of thought.

 

[Storer68]

Nelson - Brentford - Fa cup 1987.
It was great because we were down the side terrace under cover and behind the goal he scored in as well so it was a double eruption!

no we weren't. we were behind the goal in which he scored

 

[Skaville]

no we weren't. we were behind the goal in which he scored

Not all of us. It was a cup game so some of our alloctaion (including me) were in the stand to the right of the goal.

Oh, and Nelson for me too.

 

[Simster]

Not all of us. It was a cup game so some of our alloctaion (including me) were in the stand to the right of the goal.

Oh, and Nelson for me too.

Wasn't that for the 1-1 league game in the same season?

Definitely remember being behind the goal for the cup game but along the side for the league game...

 

[Gazwag]

Not all of us. It was a cup game so some of our alloctaion (including me) were in the stand to the right of the goal.

Is correct, I was under the roof on the side did the end behind the goal not have a roof