in a mini bus heading west not sure how my nerves coped with that day .- but what a day ! Thanks Robbie for everything ..without that goal non league football 75 miles away from Brighton and the chances of Amex every happeneing would have been a distant dream
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What were you doing 15 years ago today?
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Pinkie Brown
Wir Sind das Volk
I know where I was heading EXACTLY this time 15 years ago. It was on very tense coach journey. It became even tenser when the gearbox blew up about 20 miles out of Worthing. 
Coming back was a serious party though!
Coming back was a serious party though!
wigman
Well-known member
I know where I was heading EXACTLY this time 15 years ago. It was on very tense coach journey. It became even tenser when the gearbox blew up about 20 miles out of Worthing.
Coming back was a serious party though!
I was on that bus, we had to wait for a replacement at Boxhill. The party at Newbury afterwards was something else.
StillHateBellotti
Active member
Also in a mini bus heading Westwards with other random members from the Down Under Bar. Stopped in some random village for more beer, then on to the ground to finish one hell of a day! Was it really 15 sodding years ago.....
The Large One
Who's Next?
Driving to Hereford, wondering about Brighton & Hove Albion's future - i.e. did we have one?
There were four of us in the car - it was a very quiet journey there.
There were four of us in the car - it was a very quiet journey there.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
I was in the rainforest in Costa Rica. Only found out the result three days later...
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
It felt tremendous at the time but a month later the realisation sunk in that nothing much was going to change with New Labour becoming Blue Labour.
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
Was in my flat in Radom, Poland. Had been expected to go in to the school I was Director of to oversee Cambridge exam mocks but called in sick. BBC World switched on and my mate in Brighton had my number to ring in any and every development. That night I had way too many depth charges with Zubrovka!
Surrey_Albion
New member
Sitting in my Dads car with two of his mates as we made a long car jounrey, I remember later that day I was depressed,I laughed,I cryed and then was exstatic all within an hour and a half,Even saw a bull
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
1998 I had no chance of getting a ticket so we were glued to the TV that afternoon. Dreaded to think what would have happened if we had lost.
I was living in Hong Kong,had the night off the pub i was working in. Went all over the city trying to find a radio that could pick up the world service.At 1 am i was in the food store of the pub with the philipino kitchen staff radio, 25 mins left and the man on it tells me we are 1.0 down,and that they have never gone live to a match at this level before.So the last 20 mins of that game was heard around the world,my wife to be who was working the bar just out side the kitchen at the end was crying more than me.We went drinking till the sun came up, lots of football fans who had gone up or made play-offs,but no one was as happy as me .
The screamer
NSC's biggest geek
Probably eating lego in class... what year are you in at the age of 6?
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I remember wearing my Brighton shirt in Liverpool that day. Several scousers wished us luck and then after the match several more expressed pleasure at our great escape. That was the most nerve-racking day of my life where the Albion were concerned.
Superphil
Dismember
I was on my way to the Len Weston Terrace
We had decided we were going to this game anyway, some time before Hereford were dragged into the fray. I had rung their ticket office a few weeks before the end of the season and bought my tickets then. I recall speaking with the chap in ticket office and him remarking that it looked like Brighton would just about escape relegation, and that Hereford looked pretty safe! I think at the time they were 3 or 4 places above us. I think that's why we ended up with tickets in the Len Weston Terrace (on the side of the pitch) as those were the tickets they were selling that far in advance.
We stayed over at friends in Cheltenham after, and went out in town (kept our shirts on), and many Cheltenham fans congratulated us as Hereford are one of their local rivals, I don't think we had to buy many drinks for ourselves that evening! Bumped into half a dozen other Albion fans too in Hawaiian shirts, it was a good evening.
We had decided we were going to this game anyway, some time before Hereford were dragged into the fray. I had rung their ticket office a few weeks before the end of the season and bought my tickets then. I recall speaking with the chap in ticket office and him remarking that it looked like Brighton would just about escape relegation, and that Hereford looked pretty safe! I think at the time they were 3 or 4 places above us. I think that's why we ended up with tickets in the Len Weston Terrace (on the side of the pitch) as those were the tickets they were selling that far in advance.
We stayed over at friends in Cheltenham after, and went out in town (kept our shirts on), and many Cheltenham fans congratulated us as Hereford are one of their local rivals, I don't think we had to buy many drinks for ourselves that evening! Bumped into half a dozen other Albion fans too in Hawaiian shirts, it was a good evening.
Train up from Worthing to Gatwick, bit of brekkie then all aboard the Coxy & Duffy mini-bus with an assortment of what are best described as characters. At about this time (10.50ish) we were the first mini-bus to pull into a pub in Ledbury. Quiet spot for pre-match we thought - by about mid-day an Albion festival was in full swing.
brightn'ove
cringe
Would have been 4 years old so probably in reception at school doing finger painting 
I know where I was heading EXACTLY this time 15 years ago. It was on very tense coach journey. It became even tenser when the gearbox blew up about 20 miles out of Worthing.
Coming back was a serious party though!
I was on that coach - what a day!