[Albion] "Finest night in 122 years"

[SeagullsoverLondon]

 

[Mustafa II]

No, but probably makes top 20.

Great night.

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

RdZ said he thought it was. Would you disagree?
Or was 7-0 against Walsall (0-0 at half time) better?

 

[Eeyore]

Yes, it is.

Whether or not Albion were expected to get a result, the fact remains.

They have won away in a major European competition for the first time against a giant name in European football.

And when you have stood on the windswept terraces of a northern outpost watching dreadful football with 100 other Albion fans this means more than anything else.

I started by thinking this was a win we knew they could get. I ended up just staring at the scoreline thinking it looked like something from my school Subbuteo league.

There has never been a moment of pride like this.

 

[mothy]

We weren't very good after going 2 nil up

 

[pb21]

No, but probably makes top 20.

Great night.

Whether it's #1 or not, it's surely at least top 10, beating Ajax in Amsterdam 2-0?

 

[Cotton Socks]

Yeah, I guess it was alright.

 

[Eeyore]

We weren't very good after going 2 nil up

That's not relevant. The question is not one of relative analysis, it is one of historical magnitude.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Despite the almost total lack of jeopardy, this was the absolute f***ing big time. This was the 'Big Club' moment. We may slip down again, but we have now been somewhere and won, and it feels like Different. A great night. Proud to have been here.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Without doubt the greatest night.

 

[Mustafa II]

Whether it's #1 or not, it's surely at least top 10, beating Ajax in Amsterdam 2-0?

It's certainly a prestigious night for us... but there have certainly been more than 10, or 20, or even more, greater occasions as an Albion fan.

The victory feels great to me of course - but I'm more chuffed about 3 points, than I am beating Ajax. We're a considerably better side than them, and we were favourites to win. We have beaten bigger and better sides than them frequently in the Premier League over the last few years.

The 'great nights' will come in the next rounds, should we qualify.

 

[clapham_gull]

As good at it was, before the FA Cup was so devalued it was watched worldwide.

Almost beating Manchester United in 1983 sent shock waves round the globe.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

As good at it was, before the FA Cup was so devalued it was watched worldwide.

Almost beating Manchester United in 1983 sent shock waves round the globe.

I was living in Canada at the time. The game wasn't even shown live. Shockwaves, my arse.

Anyway, our greatest night in my opinion is what is greatest in my mind, not the mind of some nob in Singapore who is upset 'his' team only drew with Briton Albion (something).

 

[clapham_gull]

I was living in Canada at the time. The game wasn't even shown live. Shockwaves, my arse.

Anyway, our greatest night in my opinion is what is greatest in my mind, not the mind of some nob in Singapore who is upset 'his' team only drew with Briton Albion (something).

From the perspective of Canada in 1983, I pass no further comment

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Yes, it is.

Whether or not Albion were expected to get a result or not, the fact remains.

They have won away in a major European competition for the first time against a giant name in European football.

And when you have stood on the windswept terraces of a northern outpost watching dreadful football with 100 other Albion fans this means more than anything else.

I started by thinking this was a win we knew they could get. I ended up just staring at the scoreline thinking it looked like something from my school Subbuteo league.

There has never been a moment of pride like this.

This Tuesday 20th Oct 1987 @ Springfield Park, cold and damp on a hill (if anyone remembers the away end, no terracing.
wondering why, when…..


tonight we did it, forever in the history books we did the double over AJAX

 

[Eeyore]

This Tuesday 20th Oct 1987 @ Springfield Park, cold and damp on a hill (if anyone remembers the away end, no terracing.
wondering why, when…..


tonight we did it, forever in the history books we did the double over AJAX

I went there a couple of times. A Kurt Nogan late winner in a match where Albion must have had two attacks and scored both times and, I think, just before the Mellor march.

 

[Stat Brother]

Someone wasn't there when Chappers scored a screamer v Bournemouth in the pissing rain.

 

[Justice]

No, but probably makes top 20.

Great night.

Top twenty ffs, if some had said five, ten, or even twenty years ago one day Brighton will do the double over Ajax in a major European competition I guarantee you or anyone else would have never believed it.

 

[attila]

No. That was, and always will be, Hereford away. Everything else flows from there.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Yes, it is.

Whether or not Albion were expected to get a result or not, the fact remains.

They have won away in a major European competition for the first time against a giant name in European football.

And when you have stood on the windswept terraces of a northern outpost watching dreadful football with 100 other Albion fans this means more than anything else.

I started by thinking this was a win we knew they could get. I ended up just staring at the scoreline thinking it looked like something from my school Subbuteo league.

There has never been a moment of pride like this.

Well said. It was class being there, feeling it and witnessing it.