My first match - help please!

[cliveh27]

The first time I saw the Albion play was around 1967-68, when I was about 8 years old. It was against Reading, and we won 2-1. As I recall, the previous match had been in the FA cup, and we had lost 3-2 to Wolves, having led 2-1 at half-time.
Can anyone help me put an exact date on this pelase?

 

[whitelion]

The first time I saw the Albion play was around 1967-68, when I was about 8 years old. It was against Reading, and we won 2-1. As I recall, the previous match had been in the FA cup, and we had lost 3-2 to Wolves, having led 2-1 at half-time.
Can anyone help me put an exact date on this pelase?

The Wolves game was a league cup game which I managed to see the 15 minutes of, having been to a school prize-giving evening. I'm sure it was in 69-70 season around September/October.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Not sure I can find this. Games against Reading around that time:

65/66 - 1-1 (h) 0-0 (a)
66/67 - 0-1, 1-1
67/68 - 1-1, 0-1 (lost)
68/69 - 2-0, 0-1

This site may help jog your memory - http://www.statto.com/football/teams/brighton-and-hove-albion/1968-1969

EDIT: BINGO!!! 69/70 is correct! 2-1 at home and lost 1-0 away. We ended up 5th in the table. We played them at home on 27.03.1970 and here are the other results that day - http://www.statto.com/football/stats/results/1970-03-27

 

[Smithy]

The Reading game was 27th March 1970.

 

[whitelion]

Plymouth Argyle 7th October 1969

Brighton and Hove Albion 1969-1970 Results - statto.com

 

[sams dad]

The League match against Reading was on Good Friday 27th March 1970
The League Cup game against Wolves was much earlier in the season

 

[cliveh27]

Thanks - what an amazing site that is THRK! I was obviously older than I recall. I went with a family friend, and was allowed to stand right at the front of the North Stand, despite the large crowd - quite safe in those days. Only a couple of years later I was going on my own, and was at the last match of the 71/72 season when there was a massive crowd (33,000ish?) - 1-1 as I recall.

 

[whitelion]

We've only played Wolves once in an FA Cup game and that was 1978/79 season when we also lost 3-2

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

As mentioned above, the Reading game was many months after Wolves and you'd remember it as there were some 32,000 there!

 

[AnotherArch]

That was the Alan Duffy game! Big Good Friday game that apparently was a live commentary on BBC radio, where the famous Peter Jones described Duffs as being as wide as he was tall. I thought we were going up after that - but an awful, inept display at Halifax the next day dented hopes and a 4-1 stuffing at Fulham on the Monday finished us off. Yes - 3 games in 4 days!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Sot on AA, I remember the Fulham game well as our season fell apart.