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Awful, awful news, and a real downer on a day that - what with the Goldstone 20th bash - was all about memories. Safe to say we'll be doing something in at least one of the forthcoming match programmes about Paul. As so many others on here have said, a real BHA stalwart at a time when there...

Not a brain malfunction Worried Man! We did indeed end our losing streak with a first win of the season over Leeds (2-1), although I don't think that was one of their 'great' teams. Pretty sure they clicked the following season under Wilkinson and won promotion then, going on of course to become...

Great memories. I thought Nelse's goal v Bradford was into the North Stand end, but I might be wrong (funny how the mind plays tricks on you after all these years). I'd certainly never heard the one about the Gallaghers being there for the City match. Does anyone know that for sure? Johnny's...

Howdy, Just to let you know that the Ipswich Town edition of Seagull will be focusing on the 1988/89 season when Albion had just won promotion back to what is now the Championship from what was then Division Three. The league table that season has us finishing a lowly 19th, but that doesn't...

I know, I know. Absolutely no blame attached. But it is strange how his goals couldn't somehow carry us over the finish line. Clearly Ward made his presence felt about the place though. In Alan Mullery's autobiography, he recalls how Fred Binney came into see him that summer offering advice...

The irony of that season was that Wardy's arrival in the first team pretty much coincided with our nosedive from the promotion frame. When he made his debut at Hereford we were second in the table (with three teams going up) and eight games left to play including the clash at Edgar Street. He...

Howdy all, Just to let you know that the Burton Albion edition of Seagull will be focusing on the 1975/76 season when Peter Taylor - as in Brian Clough's right hand man as opposed to the Withdean one - was still boss of the Albion. Taylor cut his managerial teeth at Burton so this particular...

One forgotten gem which I didn't have room for in the pages was our home game against Sunderland in the league that season. Two goals down, fought back to win 3-2. We had some good results at home against the better teams but unfortunately failed to beat the majority of the other strugglers...

Howdy all and a Happy Christmas to everyone, Just to let you know that the QPR edition of Seagull on the 27th will be focusing on the 1982/83 season when we achieved the unique double of an FA Cup Final and relegation from the top flight. This one was almost impossible to write because so much...

A slightly different season, I know, but does anyone else remember John Crumplin scoring direct from a corner up at Wrexham in a 3-1 win? Slips over as he takes it, ball careers off at a spectacularly fast angle/speed, and ends up in the far corner. Then again he was the football genius.....

My stand-out moment didn't actually occur inside a football ground. It was the Saturday night of the York 'riot'. I was in London, came out of the theatre around 11pm and picked up the first edition of one of the Sunday papers.....and there was the Goldstone all over the front. I must admit my...

.....which seemed like fair comment at the time. But how wrong he was. I think we all ought to stop and think occasionally about just how far we've come over the past 20 years. That steward was right - it did seem like everything was collapsing around us. And yet here we are, in a much healthier...

Howdy, Just to let you know that Friday night's edition of Seagull for the visit of Leeds will be focusing on the 1995/96 season when Albion's off-field plight started making the news way beyond Sussex borders. Highlights on the field were few and far between as Albion were relegated to the...

The pitch invasion after Wilkins scored his last minute free kick v Ipswich is probably the most spontaneous one that I can ever remember at an Albion game. Sure, I remember plenty of pitch invasions over the years on the full time whistle, but for everyone to go for it in a wave of sheer...

Guinness, you were right. We are one of only two teams to have qualified for the play-offs with a minus goal difference. Brentford were the other club (minus three in 2004/05). Amazingly we managed to get in with minus six.

Ah ha Guinness! Maybe, maybe not. I'll see if anyone else comes back with some thoughts.....

Howdy, Just to let you know that Saturday's edition of Seagull for the visit of Fulham will be focusing on the 1990/91 season when Albion, against all expectations, came within 90 minutes of a return to the top flight via the play-offs. To be honest most of us were expecting a relegation...

I had a bit of wonderlust when I was 10 but, alas, hitching to Nottingham in '78 was beyond my remit. I just meant that I hitched to a few games up north during the mid to late eighties and also while at Polytechnic in London between 1988 and 1991. It was quite easy back then; just catch an...

The official attendance for the Bournemouth v Albion game at Dean Court on 1 April 1972 was, get this, 22,540. I just have no idea how that many people could possibly cram into such a place. You do tend to think, looking back at seasons like this with colossal attendances such as the Villa v...

It was at a possibles v probables game in Hove Park during the summer of 76 that Mullery first clapped eyes on Peter Ward. He scored three for the possibles in the first half, got swapped over, then scored three for the probables. "That was it - I knew we had a striker to get us out of the Third...