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Ah yes, the slam door trains from Brighton to Hove when half cut on a couple of lunchtime (under age) pints in a pub that would serve us before the game with my best mate as a kid. Then the walk from Hove station, down the steps and the famous anti palace graffiti on the wall next to the flats...

..the toilet was a wall and a gutter drain, so doubt they bothered. And that graffiti they didn't clear on the wall outside the toilet. It would have had some Millennials in counselling for years. Just a different world.

.. the old smell of urine by the open air toilets at the back of the north stand mixed with onions from the burgers they sold just outside.. nothing like it!

Away at The New Den and a fat bloke was playing up. The Albion fans all sang at him "Have you ever seen your d...". Two Millwall girls slowly turned around as they were sitting in front of him, looked at the fat bloke and were crying with laughter. Almost felt sorry for him as he sloped off and...

Probably best us Albion fans don't get too pious given our lot did exactly the same away at Bournemouth on live TV. Police dogs had to sort our lot out who thought it a clever idea to run a terrace full of kids and grandfathers.

Yes following people after a game as far as you could who had a radio. Listening to the results on sports report was a big memory. With you with smells as well. Different grounds had different smells.

The Sheffield Wednesday game when Danny Wilson run the show for them. The fantastic reception DW received and the laughter by even the police when the crowd was announced. The Goldstone was packed, and they knocked off half the true gate.

I always thought Albion started the celery thing in the 1987 Goldstone Gaz 3rd division promotion year and chelsea then took it on and made it famous, but do we know really who started it?

- Away at Leeds as a very young kid in the 70's and walking through a Leeds fans demonstration. - Turning up at the Goldstone as a very young kid with a tennis ball in my pocket. Prime currency as a young kid as could play cricket and football (but never tennis) with it. Being asked to hand it...