Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
Well it would be rude not to and, for anyone of the 33,600 odd that were there at the Goldstone, it just HAS to be the 4th Round of the League Cup in 1976.
Albion had started the season on fire, storming the league div 3 and having already baeten 2 quality Div 1 (prem) teams in Ipswich & WBA but Deby were one of the really top clubs of the day.
Cup fever gripped Sussex. No fiddling about trying to cope selling 8,000 tickets back then, oh no. Selling tickets, and earning even more £'s, they were on sale for a reserve game with Charlton and nearly 18,000 turned up 9we won 3-0).
On the big night, the excitement was intense. The north was packed and singing, so was the South and even the west but then, just as the teams lined up for kickoff, i heared, for probably the only time, the roar of the hordes on the vast east terrace. I have never felt the same, before of since, the tingles that ran through your spine and the hairs standing on your neck at the noisde and electric atmosphere that fair rolled around the Goldstone.
Deby kicked off, attacking the south goal and sliced, like a knife through butter, right through the middle only for Peter Grummit to fling himself at the feet of the great Charlie George.
As the crowd gasped, Grummit launched a punt upfield and now it was Wardy slicing his way through the Derby defence and GOAL!!!!!! What a 1st min to start a game.
The game carried on at a hectic pace and and Deby eventually pulled it around to 1-1. Three train loads, and many by road, made the replay at the baseball ground where Albion gave a good account of themselves before bowing out 2-1 in what was probably our most memorable League Cup run.
Albion had started the season on fire, storming the league div 3 and having already baeten 2 quality Div 1 (prem) teams in Ipswich & WBA but Deby were one of the really top clubs of the day.
Cup fever gripped Sussex. No fiddling about trying to cope selling 8,000 tickets back then, oh no. Selling tickets, and earning even more £'s, they were on sale for a reserve game with Charlton and nearly 18,000 turned up 9we won 3-0).
On the big night, the excitement was intense. The north was packed and singing, so was the South and even the west but then, just as the teams lined up for kickoff, i heared, for probably the only time, the roar of the hordes on the vast east terrace. I have never felt the same, before of since, the tingles that ran through your spine and the hairs standing on your neck at the noisde and electric atmosphere that fair rolled around the Goldstone.
Deby kicked off, attacking the south goal and sliced, like a knife through butter, right through the middle only for Peter Grummit to fling himself at the feet of the great Charlie George.
As the crowd gasped, Grummit launched a punt upfield and now it was Wardy slicing his way through the Derby defence and GOAL!!!!!! What a 1st min to start a game.
The game carried on at a hectic pace and and Deby eventually pulled it around to 1-1. Three train loads, and many by road, made the replay at the baseball ground where Albion gave a good account of themselves before bowing out 2-1 in what was probably our most memorable League Cup run.
Why couldnt I have been around 
