Over ten years since we "sold" the Goldstone

[Storer68]

FFS


First published on Wednesday 28 July 2004:
Nine-year quest to secure new stadium
by Matthew James

When The Argus revealed Brighton and Hove Albion were selling the Goldstone Ground, few readers expected the saga to be making headlines nine years later.

At the time this newspaper exposed the club's plans to groundshare at Portsmouth, John Major was prime minister and one of Albion's current first-team squad was only eight.

The sensational scoop sent shockwaves throughout Sussex on July 7, 1995. Three Argus editors and ten Albion managers later, the issue of a home for the club is still high on the local agenda.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I can't believe it has been that long, and we're still aint in a permanent home, why can't JP get off his fat lazy arse and just say the word YES!!!!!!!!

 

[Sammy the seagull]

Its taking the piss now!

 

[Tooting Gull]

It always makes me laugh/cry whenever people go an about the Wembley fiasco.

For a stadium that is not used regularly, just a few times a year, and with a new capacity of 80,000:

Last match Oct 2000, first match back probably May 2006.

Brighton, for a league team needing ground minimum 23 times a season, 'new capacity' 20,000:

Last match 1997, first match Falmer? but not before 2007.

It's just shameful.

 

[Ernest]

There is only one person to blame and that is Mr Dick 'Head' Knight

 

[Basil Fawlty]

There is only one person to blame and that is Mr Dick 'Head' Knight

Shut the f*** up!!!!! there are three people to blame and that is Bellotti, Archer and Stanley, Ernest you are a complete and utter wanker.

 

[Jonathon Livingstone]

There is only one person to blame and that is Mr Dick 'Head' Knight

 

[Everest]

For once, I nearly agree with you 86.

It's "there are three people", not "there is three people".

 

[The Large One]

Shut the f*** up!!!!! there is three people to blame and that is Bellotti, Archer and Stanley, Ernest you are a complete and utter wanker.

That much we all know.

I think you will find he is on a wind up, and you fell for it. Either that, or Worzel Gummidge really has had the diarhoetic blowback he has been promising himself, f***ing his mind and frying his tiny cock into the unspeakble depths of stupidity he teeters on the edge of every full moon.

But with Ernest, you never can tell.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

It wasn't sold it was STOLEN.

 

[berkshire seagull]

It wasn't sold it was STOLEN.

and was a crumbling wreck

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

and was a crumbling wreck

It may have been a crumbling wreck, but it was OUR wreck.

 

[berkshire seagull]

Was our wreck,times have moved on people need to think about the future

Think 8 years is long enough considering we are less than 2 months away from the biggest decision in our history

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Was our wreck,times have moved on people need to think about the future

Think 8 years is long enough considering we are less than 2 months away from the biggest decision in our history

I think everyone is trying to think about the future, but everytime we step into Withdean or go past that facking retail park, we get reminded of the past.

8 years is more than enough!!!!

 

[Brighton till i die]

i f***ing miss the old place - the terraces.........

 

[Brighton till i die]

no place better than in the middle of a packed North Stand (just before a goal!!)

 

[berkshire seagull]

Prefer the days of bigger crowds and packed out

least we have our memories as they can't be taken away

 

[Northstander]

The sportsman next to Hove Station! All chrome and tv's!

 

[deano5]

Prefer the days of bigger crowds and packed out

least we have our memories as they can't be taken away

still the proud owner of seat 100 from the west stand.

 

[Brighton till i die]

Prefer the days of bigger crowds and packed out

least we have our memories as they can't be taken away

yeah mate was nice to see the old vids when the whole ground was rammed - not the gaps here and there you saw towards the end!!