First Brighton Away Game?

[Pretty pink fairy]

I know been done before,but quite a few new members now

your very first Albion away day,not the first one you got arrested or beat up,we can do that another day

your very first away game?

mine Dec 76 Stamford Bridge,enough said

Pompey boxing day 76 ?
regards
DR

 

[greyseagull]

Funny enough Brentford away in (if memory serves me correctly) 1995 when Ian Chapman scored that volley.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I THINK it was Brentford funnily enough in '87. Garry Nelson, celebrating on the pitch. Great times.

Funnily enough I was just googling that season as we seem to have shared the first one going away. In fact I didn't go to the immediate away game after Southend as for some odd reason we played Port Vsle away the following Monday.

I remember the whole season as, well, very eventful. Looking back on the threads about the 70s and early 80s it was clearly very tame in comparison. However, the 'trouble' at the Southend game I mentioned was fairly insignificant compared to what came later. I can remember leaving Gillingham and walking straight in to the middle of an inescapable fight and being greeted by lines of police dogs at Victoria. I can remember the game you talk about and being nearly trampled by police horses on the way back to the station after the league game there after Brighton had smashed up their pubs. I can remember our coin collectors trading not very rare examples with like minded Chester fans at their old dump of a ground. I can also remember nearly dying in a surge to get on the pitch after Bristol Rovers and the carnage round the station after Arsenal arrived. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was one hell of an eye opener. And I suspect it was safer than the 70s

 

[Seagull on the wing]

It was quite sometime till my first away game due to navy commitments...but did get to Plymouth v Brighton in 1960...wish I hadn't,we got hammered 5=0...there was me shouting out Albion...on my own surrounded by burly dockyard workers...who gave me a lot of stick as each goal went in.
Eventually a guy came up to me and sais,"Thank God,another Brighton fan.

 

[Telboy]

Pompey Jan 1960 2-2

 

[Rod Marsh]

1st December 1991 I think. Definitely the first long trip I did as an adult. Away at Oldham. Stuffed 6-1. Still loved it. Dean Wilkins free kick was a beautiful consolation. 5 of us in a Nissan cherry. How it got us there and back I have no idea.

 

[Luke93]

QPR about 12 years ago. Can't remember the result!

 

[golddene]

Palace!!!! Peter Taylor (the original) when manager, won 1-0 with a very early goal from on loan striker Barry Butlin great memories the natives were not happy or was it the previous year when we got turned over 1-3 not too sure now but went to them both.

 

[portslade seagull]

Crystal Palace away for me early 70's was about 9 and we lost 3-0 I think

 

[Peter Grummit]

12-3-77 lost 3-1 to the scum at Selhurst.

My folks thought it would safer to go in the home end, on the side. Remember seeing some older Fawcett-ers getting a police escort out of the Holmesdale to the (future) Sainsbury's away end, having kicked off some trouble. A year or so earlier had my scarf nicked in Hove Park by some Palarse **sser. I was 11 years old. And people ask us why we hate them.

PG

 

[el punal]

First day of the 1977/78 season, away to Southampton. We'd just got promoted, so it was our first game back in what is now the Championship. 1-1, John Ruggerio scored for us (his only goal for the club, I think).

The Dell was an absolutely awful ground, we were rammed in like sardines behind the goal. It was so packed we could only see half the pitch - but luckily the half where the two goals were scored. Loads of fighting on the terraces! (not involving me, I hasten to add!).

Nothing to do with other Albion fans either. Pompey fans had infiltrated the Dell's East stand ( to the left of the Albion fans behind the goal) and decided to take on Saints' finest.

 

[El Presidente]

Gillingham away December 1976 I think. Ian Mellor scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory. Very lively outside as a couple of bigger teams had matches postponed and decided to pay a visit.

 

[The Birdman]

Not sure may have been A Portsmouth game or it could have been a replay against Walsall at Craven Cottage! Have to have a research.

 

[Paris]

Orient 1 Albion 0 1997/98

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Not sure may have been A Portsmouth game or it could have been a replay against Walsall at Craven Cottage! Have to have a research.

craven cottage was Dec 69

2 days later we lost the 3rd replay at Highfield Road

 

[el punal]

My first Brighton away game - Bradford City, March (or April) 1972. This was when going to away games was the exception rather than the rule, except for nearby local derbies.

I've got to say the trip was a nightmare. My mate and I caught the supporters club coach from St.Peters Church at 7.00 a.m. on the Saturday. We seemed to be the youngest on the coach by some 30 years (we were about 19 at the time) and it felt like like we had joined the Sussex knitting circle it was that boring.

At last we made it to Bradford and straight into the local boozer where we drank about 7/8 pints of Bradford's finest. Onto Valley Parade where we saw Albion lose 2-1. A couple of things to note - it was our last defeat of the season as we then ended the season being promoted with Aston Villa. It was solid, dependable John Napier's last game that season (I think) to be replaced by Ian Goodwin.
We then picked up the reputation of being late goal specialists. I think that we scored in at least 12 matches, in the last 5 minutes, to secure either a win or a draw.

Anyway, back on to the coach for the thrilling journey back to Brighton arriving about 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

 

[Guinness Boy]

My first Brighton away game - Bradford City, March (or April) 1972. This was when going to away games was the exception rather than the rule, except for nearby local derbies.

I've got to say the trip was a nightmare. My mate and I caught the supporters club coach from St.Peters Church at 7.00 a.m. on the Saturday. We seemed to be the youngest on the coach by some 30 years (we were about 19 at the time) and it felt like like we had joined the Sussex knitting circle it was that boring.

At last we made it to Bradford and straight into the local boozer where we drank about 7/8 pints of Bradford's finest. Onto Valley Parade where we saw Albion lose 2-1. A couple of things to note - it was our last defeat of the season as we then ended the season being promoted with Aston Villa. It was solid, dependable John Napier's last game that season (I think) to be replaced by Ian Goodwin.
We then picked up the reputation of being late goal specialists. I think that we scored in at least 12 matches, in the last 5 minutes, to secure either a win or a draw.

Anyway, back on to the coach for the thrilling journey back to Brighton arriving about 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

I only had to do Southend and back to be converted to the trains

 

[The Birdman]

craven cottage was Dec 69

2 days later we lost the 3rd replay at Highfield Road

Thanks for the date it sounds about right when did George Ley play against us and my Uncle got the tickets from Reynolds at Portsmouth dog track which after the game we meet the Pompey players. In those days they all spent a lot of time gambling .

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The FA cup semi final in 83.

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

September 1982, Division One, Luton Town 5 - Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Ouch!

Did not put me off though, but I have not been back to Loo Town since then. Scarred for life, obviously.