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Looking forward to starting up my annual pilgrimage again. I remember a 3-2 victory over Oxford United in 2013. I think this is the winning penalty Not enough to save Shots though.

I met some Palace fans in a pub at one of those and got very drunk with them and ended up in the away end. Cheering the Albion... Thankfully I had a 'he may be Brighton but he's our Brighton' group around me. I seem to remember it saved me at the station. A group of Palace fans came looking...

I've got sweaty palms reading that.

Wasn't at that one. All my visits were in the 90s.

Port Vale is one of my most visited places. Great pub crawl from Longport. Never had trouble, but that was a little later (1990 onwards). Seems that experiencing trouble has a lot of variables.

Yeah, that was 1990. January match. I've been there a few times.

Had trouble there on two occasions. First time on the way back to the station (one Albion lad got a kicking), second time in 1990 just inside the ground. Not a lot, but in the north western towns (I've seen trouble at Bolton and Wigan and got ambushed in Preston) you needed to be mindful...

The 1986 match was in September. I was 17 and had gone on my own. I did travel back and have a few tinnies with some older Albion fans.

I remember a group of Southampton fans with attitude walking up Queen's Road on a bank holiday years ago. I looked it up recently and it was January 1978. it was a bit threatening, although there was no fisticuffs. I was 8. Where was PPF to protect me from my angst ? My first proper experience...