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20 Years ago today
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The Birdman
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I see not all fans are happy but I was concerned what the punishment the club would get but looking back it was nessecary as they we're ruining the club. Are you one of those on the pitch. What do you think.
Captain Sensible
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I was in the North when they pulled the North goal down. There were clearly some 'fans' there that went for the trouble and a lot of anarchist activist types. There was some conflict between those pulling down the goals and those left in the North. I wanted to protest and go on the pitch I had been at every protest previously and all of them since but I left that one. More because that day felt like we'd lost the club more than the following season. At least at the end of the following season we had hope. When I saw the goals pulled down, and other parts of the ground being smashed up. I couldn't handle it. I left. I was in my early 20's and distraught at what had happened to our club.
BUTTERBALL
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Dark times, but this is when #TOGETHER meant more than anything - it is what pulled us through.
Pevenseagull
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- Jul 20, 2003
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As the goal came down I was on, ashamed I wasn't on earlier.
and I consider myself to be a very meek, polite person (although I'm probably deluded)
Had to be done.
and I consider myself to be a very meek, polite person (although I'm probably deluded)
Had to be done.
darkwolf666
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What is noticeable is that the fans that came on from the North Stand appeared very young, looking like the majority were school-age kids, who probably didn't really know what it was all about at the outset and went along for the jolly.
What was equally noticeable was that horrible thug at around 6:00, who backed up my his "mates" was prepared to take on a fan from the South Stand who didn't think what they were doing was right!
Understand the sentiment was right on the day, but his behaviour was just thuggish - the type we would expect from the likes of a certain Burnley player. Made me feel sick to watch a supposed Brighton fan turn on one of their own so.
What was equally noticeable was that horrible thug at around 6:00, who backed up my his "mates" was prepared to take on a fan from the South Stand who didn't think what they were doing was right!
Understand the sentiment was right on the day, but his behaviour was just thuggish - the type we would expect from the likes of a certain Burnley player. Made me feel sick to watch a supposed Brighton fan turn on one of their own so.
OzMike
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Don't really see the point of the police being there, they didn't do anything.
I used to know the chap in the NOBO shirt who was walking up the road at the beginning, his name was Grant, long time ago that.
I used to know the chap in the NOBO shirt who was walking up the road at the beginning, his name was Grant, long time ago that.
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Attendance was 2106 I believe played on Thursday May 9th in the morning.
Kalimantan Gull
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1995-96 season I was up in Nottingham at Uni, barely went to a game, wasn't really tuned in what was happening at Brighton - the internet wasn't the all-seeing eye it is now. This York game made the reality of what was going on suddenly jump out at me and I was glad to be back in Brighton and part of the protests during 96-97.
Watching it - really packed out for a relegated team, I guess most thought it was the last game at the Goldstone. Was the protest organised in advance or spontaneous? Enjoyed the 'bellotti out' graffitti on the dugouts
Amazing it took another year to get the c*nts out of our club.
Watching it - really packed out for a relegated team, I guess most thought it was the last game at the Goldstone. Was the protest organised in advance or spontaneous? Enjoyed the 'bellotti out' graffitti on the dugouts
Amazing it took another year to get the c*nts out of our club.
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Jack Straw
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I was there. It certainly was one of the strangest games I've ever attended. Lovely morning sunshine and the away section of the South Stand full of York supporters and the North Stand with about the same number of Albion supporters.
bn1&bn3 Albion
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I've heard that fan in the South had history with said people, he wasn't just a normal fan disagreeing with the actions.
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kevo
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I remember getting a bus to the ground and a girl in a Brighton top got on. I said to her: "There's going to be a riot today, isn't there?". And she said: "Yes, pitch invasion at 3.15". At precisely 3.15 it happened. Amazing the police weren't aware.
'Sack the Board' written across the pitch was just amazing. I dare say there was some organised thuggery that encouraged the destruction of the goals but it was never a riot. I remember old ladies sitting on the pitch in the sunshine! What that day did was to alert the world of our plight. The second item on the BBC national news that night, after Bosnia, was Brighton v York City. Quite incredible.
sod1
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myself and your bro along with DF were some of the first dozen or so on the pitch , it had to be done, although I did wind DF's Mrs up the following day by phoning her and saying I had spent the night down the nick , she said the effin barstewards had better not come round here !
Green Cross Code Man
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I applaud all those that went on and pulled the posts down. Like Captain Sensible, I was very upset at the time. I was in the north with my brother and dad. We knew the club was in severe danger but it was only when the evening news was on and the next day on all the front pages of the papers, that I realised the importance of that kind of direct action. The Goldstone ground group on Facebook has a quote from the news of the world where the liars claim it was all the work of hooligans and that riot police were called in. I certainly don't remember any riot police. That day made the football community realise just how bad things were for us and we gained a lot of sympathy from other fans. The York fans were amazing.
There were some sort of riot police because a fair few of us tried to get into ground vis the players tunnel but they had shut the doors and when they were partially opened battons came through.i was also on the pitch at Lincoln at home evening gameand at the old concorde for a meeting between fans and board paul samarah an attila were both there i was only 18 they were such dark times.what a differnce 20years makes.