Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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I was lucky enough to be a guest of Nsure in their box so watched the game from the West rather than our usual seats on the East.
First up our visitors, the majority of them more akin to the Jeremy Kyle show,but what must have really grated them was not only the fact they they got nowhere near filling their ground when we played up there, but even better than that they must have looked at what we've ended up with after all of our troubles and realise that they will never have what we've got.
The other that really made me feel good was seeing all the familiar faces from the old days dotted around the West Stand, people that lived through all the crap at the Goldstone/Gillingham/Withdean. Im fully aware that to fill and ultimately finance a stadium like ours there has to be a new generation and group of supporters but like I said I was pleased to see so many old Albion faces enjoying the win.
The only down side was the stewarding, people sat in front of our box obviously very excited by the atmosphere and the game itself were on occasions standing up, but not blocking anyone's view, yet stewards persisted in coming up and ordering them to sit down, why? Like I said they were not blocking anyone, I looked across at the away end and they stood throughout with no evidence of being ordered to sit down.
Having said that it didn't quite spoil a memorable day, Dec 26th 1988 was a long time ago......
First up our visitors, the majority of them more akin to the Jeremy Kyle show,but what must have really grated them was not only the fact they they got nowhere near filling their ground when we played up there, but even better than that they must have looked at what we've ended up with after all of our troubles and realise that they will never have what we've got.
The other that really made me feel good was seeing all the familiar faces from the old days dotted around the West Stand, people that lived through all the crap at the Goldstone/Gillingham/Withdean. Im fully aware that to fill and ultimately finance a stadium like ours there has to be a new generation and group of supporters but like I said I was pleased to see so many old Albion faces enjoying the win.
The only down side was the stewarding, people sat in front of our box obviously very excited by the atmosphere and the game itself were on occasions standing up, but not blocking anyone's view, yet stewards persisted in coming up and ordering them to sit down, why? Like I said they were not blocking anyone, I looked across at the away end and they stood throughout with no evidence of being ordered to sit down.
Having said that it didn't quite spoil a memorable day, Dec 26th 1988 was a long time ago......
