can you remember your first Albion game?

paul wickens · Mar 30, 2013

We live in Bath so I don't get to many matches nowadays but my 12 year old son is going to his first Albion game at the Amex on Tuesday night; he's so excited!
Reminds me of how I felt before my first ever Albion game.
November 1974 v Aldershot, won 1-0, Fred Binney (I think) scored, very misty afternoon. Awful game, but it didn't put me off. :smile:

algie · Mar 30, 2013

This has been done to death.

Dan Gleeballs · Mar 30, 2013

Brighton v Man City 4th round FA cup 1983. 4-0. Wide eyed 7 year old sat in the West Stand. Will never forget it.

Goldstone Rapper · Mar 30, 2013

paul wickens said:
We live in Bath so I don't get to many matches nowadays but my 12 year old son is going to his first Albion game at the Amex on Tuesday night; he's so excited!
Reminds me of how I felt before my first ever Albion game.
November 1974 v Aldershot, won 1-0, Fred Binney (I think) scored, very misty afternoon. Awful game, but it didn't put me off.

If it was November 1974, it was a 3-1 win in the FA Cup with Binney getting two goals.

StonehamPark · Mar 30, 2013

26 April, 1997.
9 years old.

Lord Bracknell · Mar 30, 2013

Nope. I'm fairly certain it was a Third Division (South) game against Newport County at Somerton Park in the season that Albion first got promoted to the Second Division.

ExmouthExile · Mar 30, 2013

October '83 - Albion v Portsmouth. I can't even remember the score, or much about the game as I spent most of it dodging bottles and coins. I was in the North East, they gave the pompey fans the North Stand, or at least the east side of it. I remember them trying to climb up the fencing like a bunch of wild animals. Happy days!

Barrel of Fun · Mar 30, 2013

'90 vs Millwall, thanks to Sammy Nelson taking us on a school trip. A 0-0 bore draw, I seem to recall.

I do remember a similar thread a fair while ago and Kev the Ape said he was going to ask his mother if he could remember his first game :lol:

KJP · Mar 30, 2013

I think it was Blackburn at home in the 80s, my mums school got tickets so I went along with them

Jam The Man · Mar 30, 2013

April 87
Albion 2-0 Palace
Wilson
Hughes

Barry Lloyd's first win

Papak · Mar 30, 2013

Yes, better than you by the looks of it.

Bigtomfu · Mar 30, 2013

algie said:
This has been done to death.

Does my nut when people take the time to open a thread, post a negative irrelevant comment and don't even bother to participate. Why googling bother?!

Anyway I digress.......

Yep, I remember it like it was yesterday - cold, wet Tuesday night League Cup game v Gillingham in 87. We lost 1-0 if memory serves but I loved every minute of it.
The walk up the old West Stand stairs, the click of the turnstile, and the smell of sweet pipe tobacco in the air.

Climbing up to the very back where my Dad sat it felt like the biggest structure in the world and the first sight of the hallowed emerald green turf was incredibly intoxicating.

Mackenzie · Mar 30, 2013

Yep. It was against Southampton at the Goldstone. I think it might have been 80/81. My recollections are that we lost 1-0, we were on the east terrace, I think Kevin Keegan played for Southampton and Sammy Nelson played for us......other than that :shrug:

I was only 7 though, and it was a long time ago!

SeagullSongs · Mar 30, 2013

Not really.

Play-off final in '04. I recall being there but the game was so dull I barely remember any of it.

Frutos · Mar 30, 2013

August 21st 1993, a 1-1 draw against Hartlepool at the Goldstone.

I was 9 years old and it was my first experience of live football of any kind. Nearly 20 years ago...bloody hell.

Butch Willykins · Mar 30, 2013

Yes. Shaun Goater was playing for the opposition, Rotherham. We lost.

Goldstone Rapper · Mar 30, 2013

Bigtomfu said:
Does my nut when people take the time to open a thread, post a negative irrelevant comment and don't even bother to participate. Why googling bother?!

Anyway I digress.......

Yep, I remember it like it was yesterday - cold, wet Tuesday night League Cup game v Gillingham in 87. We lost 1-0 if memory serves but I loved every minute of it.
The walk up the old West Stand stairs, the click of the turnstile, and the smell of sweet pipe tobacco in the air.

Climbing up to the very back where my Dad sat it felt like the biggest structure in the world and the first sight of the hallowed emerald green turf was incredibly intoxicating.

We won 1-0 in that game if your first game was at Goldstone

Goal is here
Brighton 1-0 Gillingham (LC) 1987/88 - YouTube

Goldstone Rapper · Mar 30, 2013

I don't remember my first game. 1994/95 at the Goldstone in the autumn.

Crispy Ambulance · Mar 30, 2013

Walsall home Feb 1972. Lost 1-2. Eddie Spearitt scored. Lovely to clinch L1 title on my only visit to Walsall.

coagulantwolf · Mar 30, 2013

2-1 win in Golden Goal against Wycombe on a cold Tuesday/Wednesday night. After my dad bigged up the excitement of golden goal, how tense it could be, we scored within about 30 seconds of it kicking off! Thus bringing extra time to a very premature end. Meant I got back home earlier though as it was a school night and I was only little!

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