Best memory of goldstone

[glasgull]

Having seen those goldstone pics, I've got all nostalgic, so what are your best goldstone memories....

Mine: probably watching Deano's last minute free kick against Ipswich - ah, happy days...
A lthough a very close second has to be when I was mascot - but there wasn't the same feeling of euphoria...Just awe.

 

[Kent Seagull]

Jesus, where do you start! Really it has to be the great players to have graced the ground. obviously the likes a Wardy, Foster, Robinson, Towner, Steele, Moseley, Worthington etc etc. I was looking through some old programmes a while back and some of the opposition teams were awesome. Probably the best Liverpool side ever, Forest when they were champions of Europe, Playing sides like Man U, Spurs, Arsenal etc week in week out. For a while all the best players in the country played at the Goldstone.

Beer in the South Stand, beating Palace, Putting 5 past Cardiff with Maybank getting a hatrick!

Atmosphere, terraces, surging down the North stand when we scored. God I miss the place!

 

[Donk the Seagull]

my first game was the final game at the goldstone so i would say when the final whistle went and every1 ran onto the pitch. that is my best and only memory of it

 

[B.M.F]

Mine would have to be when I was a ballboy at reserve games. Their was a particular game where john Keeley was asking me who to kick the ball to. He succeeded with everyone I said, even when i asked him to kick it to their winger I don't think I have ever had such a giggle at a match. Shame he can't pass those kicking skills to Kuipers

 

[FamilyGuy]

Hasn't this been done before?

All the home cup games in 1983

Beating Liverpool (again) in 1984

Standing on the roof of the Gents (with dozens of others) to watch Man Utd in a dangerously over crowded match

Kevin Keagans last-ever professional game

Watching the kids in the front row wave their autograph books and call over to Alan Ball - and when he came over, they asked him to get Keagans autograph for them - when Alan realised that they didn't want his autograph, he very sportingly told them to feck off

 

[Storer68]

Strangely my favourite memory is 4-0 defeat - by Arsenal in the first match in Division 1- but this was us playing with the bigteams on an equal footing. about as unbelievable now as it was then, only it happened then

the whole of 1977-79 - two fantastic years - ground full to bursting every home game (well it seemed like it) - as a kid i hd to get into the ground 2 hours before kick off to get my spot in the NW terrace underneath the old white wooden Radio Brighton hut. Great Wins, great players, the whole thing seemed to be bursting with invincible self confidence, promotion - no-one could beat us, probably the best young strike in the country,

If you weren't there, remember how it felt during the back-to-back championship period and then add on about another 20,000 inside the ground, a manager in whom everyone had total belief,

Marvellous scenes

 

[Storer68]

Hasn't this been done before?


Kevin Keagans last-ever professional game

A pedant statto writes that it was actuallty at St James's Park.

I know, I was there. And we got beat 3-1

 

[FamilyGuy]

A pedant statto writes that it was actuallty at St James's Park.

I know, I was there. And we got beat 3-1

Wow!!! Is my memory really that bad??
That's worrying!

 

[The Orange Seagull]

Best memories........
1) first match v Derby county 1979 & watching Wardy score.
2) The surges in the North Stand when we beat Liverpool in the cup 1984.(yes we really did beat big name teams in those days,would never happen now!)
3) Beating Norwich in the cup Q-F 1983 & Jimmy Case getting the winner.
4) The last top flight game v Man City 1983.(sad day,stood and stared at the pitch after the game wondering if I would ever see Albion play in the top flight again...................)
5) Steve Foster and his headband clearing ball after ball!
6) The scuffles in the North Stand.(scary at the time though!)
7) Being a bit nervous during the Chelsea riots 1983.
8) Being able to stand on terracing.
9) Our unique floodlights.(drenchlighting!)
10) Standing on the East & North terraces with my mates.
11) Beating Palace.
12) The promotion season of 87/88-Nelsons rockets,Bremner constantly (deliberatly?) falling over,celery fights,Crumplin,October hurricane,Rougvie,Barry lloyd,Arsenal cup match,celebrations!
13) 1991 Wilkins late winner against Ipswich,stuffing Millwall in the Play Offs!
14) playing Steau Bucherest in a friendly and beating them 5-4(Its true,we did!)
15) beating Crawley in the fa cup 5-0 and taunting them with "are you palace in disguise"
16) Beating Pompey.
17) The England international match in the 90s v Italy.(yes,really)
18) The pitch invasion v York 1996.
19) Seeing Bellotti running for his life from the directors box 60 seconds into a match 1996?
20) The pre/during/post match demonstrations-various matches!
21) Stuffing Charlton 7-0 1983,Cases hat-trick.
22) and of course the final match v Doncaster 1997.(sitting stunned at the end at the fact that this was really it,the last match)

 

[B.M.F]

Best memories........

17) The England international match in the 90s v Italy.(yes,really)

Was that the England B side V's Italy under 21's. the teams including the likes of Gazza tony Adams and totto Schillachi. If so I was standing next to loads of fanatical Wolves fans who were going potty everytime Steve Bull got a touch

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

All the games i went to i never came away with such a high as the Millwall 4-1 play off win.We were as good as at Wembley.

 

[The Orange Seagull]

Oh and I forgot to mention the songs,the big match atmosphere of the early 80s,the Cavemen Crew and the Johnny Crumplin Football Genius T-Shirts!

 

[B.M.F]

oooohhh oooohhh the Caveman Crew Marvellous scenes

 

[levski seagull]

brighton 5
hartlepool 0
the first fans utd game,probably saved this club from relegation and ultimatley going under,also got in for nothing with hundreds of others thanks to an obliging steward.

 

[B.M.F]

brighton 5
hartlepool 0
the first fans utd game,probably saved this club from relegation and ultimatley going under,also got in for nothing with hundreds of others thanks to an obliging steward.

SHHHHHH. you will get me sacked. perhaps not I don't work there anymore got a season Ticket instead

 

[BensGrandad]

Div 3 (South) May 1957
Brighton & Hove Albion 6 (Adrian Thorne 5 goals)
v
Watford 0

Brighton promoted for the very first time to the then Division 2

 

[sams dad]

One game that sticks out for me:
Beating Darlington 3-1 to secure 4th div title in 1965 .Over 31000 in the ground!(Average gate that season was 17000)

 

[northstandnorth]

my memories go back to even earlier than 68 standing under the north east floodlights next to dave sexton (ex chelsea manager)an ex player who paid to watch rather than get a freebie,but despite the glory years under bamber and mullery the greatest time was pat sawards promotion year

 

[BensGrandad]

One game that sticks out for me:
Beating Darlington 3-1 to secure 4th div title in 1965 .Over 31000 in the ground!(Average gate that season was 17000)

Who would have thought that we would have bought Bobby Smith from Spurs for £5k 6 months after he played for England at Wembley.

It is comparable to us buying Alan Shearer for £50k now unbelievable.

 

[Beach Hut]

Norwich - FA Cup Quarter Final, I really was in 7th heaven after that game.

I think it was the realisation that we were so close to Wembley