for my generation we mostly started following the club at the tail end of the Goldstone years when the team were mostly absolutely dogshit and the ground was a crumbling wreck and being 7 or 8 or whatever we weren't involved in the political aspect of those late Goldstone years as much as older...
Withdean has to hold the record for most amount of stands at a football league ground
six. SIX STANDS
Like many I have so many fond memories
from our early years with Adams' collection of hard nut lads and Bobby Zamora, to our first season in the second tier where we came so close to...
pretty sure we were only allowed to play there because it was very much temporary. No way could a club rock up to the football league and be like "yeah this is our permanent ground" and that was BEFORE two ninths of the capacity was taken away. Nothing about it in it's current state is...
brilliant stuff
I've been meaning to go along and watch Varndeanians. A few years ago the saturday league team I managed were an extra time defeat away from playing a cup game at Withdean as a team in the league above us called it home. I had images of patrolling the same touchline once graced...