Forty years ago today

[El Presidente]

Albion 0 Walton and Hersham 4 FACup First Round Replay.

I hate to think what would have happened had NSC been around then.

 

[highway61]

Oh dear, was there mate...total disaster...would have been NSC meltdown od awesome proportion

 

[Return of the Rev]

Took the afternoon off shcool for that one

 

[whitelion]

Absolute meltdown...remember it well..same time as the 2-8 result against Bristol Rovers and Brian Clough etc.

 

[highway61]

me too mate

 

[KZNSeagull]

I am sure NSC would have laughed it off in it's usual, balanced reaction manner. We needed to concentrate on the league afterall

 

[Gblocksouthstand]

Took the afternoon off shcool for that one

Why, wasn't it an evening game?

 

[Norman Potting]

Barnes would somehow have been blamed.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The energy crisis meant they couldn't guarantee floodlights would work.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Barnes would somehow have been blamed.

Or (Gary) Bloom, the Walton and Hersham keeper.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I wasn't a fan then and had only heard of brighton as they had been dicked by Bristol rovers 8-2.

Thought at the time what a shit side they must have been....not knowing I would end up them being my second team for over 30 odd years.

 

[whitelion]

Wednesday 28th November 1973.

We can do it all again on 1st December...40 years since the 2-8 Bristol Rovers result...two crushing defeats in three days...

 

[rcf0712]

binfest, is it a word, it is now.....

 

[BLOCK F]

I was there.............not a good day.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I seem to remember Gwylan and I getting off PE at school, walking across to the Goldstone and watching it. Match summary- we weren't very good. Mid afternoon kick off due to electrical issues assoicate dwiht the energy crisis as seem to recall.

Oh the memories.

TNBA

TTF

 

[Gwylan]

I seem to remember Gwylan and I getting off PE at school, walking across to the Goldstone and watching it. Match summary- we weren't very good. Mid afternoon kick off due to electrical issues assoicate dwiht the energy crisis as seem to recall.

Oh the memories.

TNBA

TTF

Not me. I stayed at school for that one, I remember you going though and how pissed off you were the next day. How little we knew what was to come a few days later (but I missed that too, I was working at my Saturday job). Until 1997, this was probably my worst week as a Brighton supporter.

What made worst is that TTF and I went on one of the educational cruises a week later and had to endure a lot of grief from fellow travellers when they found we were Brighton fans

 

[Bwian]

Wednesday 28th November 1973.

We can do it all again on 1st December...40 years since the 2-8 Bristol Rovers result...two crushing defeats in three days...

And I was at both of them. Not a good week to be an Albion fan.

 

[clippedgull]

Took the afternoon off shcool for that one

Same

Although we got thrashed by smash & grab in the Rovers game we were actually the first side that season to score 2 goals against them

 

[BobbySmith]

Anyone else go missing from West tarring school that afternoon ?, to be greeted by the unhappy headmaster the next day at assembly ' will the boys who absconded from school yesterday afternoon to watch a football match, please stand' to which about 200 stood up, he did not know what to do,I think we got punished but can't remember the details......anyone else remember ?

 

[Norman Potting]

Anyone else go missing from West tarring school that afternoon ?, to be greeted by the unhappy headmaster the next day at assembly ' will the boys who absconded from school yesterday afternoon to watch a football match, please stand' to which about 200 stood up, he did not know what to do,I think we got punished but can't remember the details......anyone else remember ?

Perhaps he was a forgiving man and thought the result punishment enough!