I did this last season
Went to leave home & looked at sky sports & it was half time.
I used seagull travel to go shopping in town instead
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The Plonker who missed the match.
- Thread starter Russ
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I did this last season
Went to leave home & looked at sky sports & it was half time.
I used seagull travel to go shopping in town instead
Mileoakman
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Some years ago, when we still at the Goldstone, my workmate and I travelled to loads of away games. One saturday we were due to play Gillingham away and we arranged to meet a couple of friends at the Priestfield ground before the match. They never showed.
On the monday when we caught up with them they told us they had apparently driven to Gillingham in Dorset because they looked it up in their Atlas and just picked the first Gillingham they saw. Apparently the villagers in Dorset were somewhat perplexed when two geezers wearing blue and white turned up at the local pub asking for directions to the ground!
On the monday when we caught up with them they told us they had apparently driven to Gillingham in Dorset because they looked it up in their Atlas and just picked the first Gillingham they saw. Apparently the villagers in Dorset were somewhat perplexed when two geezers wearing blue and white turned up at the local pub asking for directions to the ground!
Ex-Staffs Gull
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Did that match 3 times that season. Cancelled twice i seem to remember. Third time the charm. We actually scored a goal and Halifax stayed up, just...I'll raise you even more! If anyone remembers the dreadful Halifax (away) debacle of 2001. My daughter really fancied going to the game. So in my wisdom, I took one day's holiday (I had to work on Saturday) and because my motor was in a dodgy state I booked a hire car for the weekend.
It tonked it down on the Friday night and they played a Rugby League game that evening at the Shay. So come Saturday morning, at 8.00 am, checked Ceefax (remember that!) to find the Albion match was still on. Off we went and 200+ miles later arrived in deepest Halifax to find the rugby posts still in situ - and guess what!
That weekend cost me fortune and as someone has already mentioned, thank Gawd we've now got decent mobile phones and t'internet.
I checked it cos I had a very vague memory of the same. I remember it was definitely home to Torquay and recall someone at the station saying the match was off [it wash't], I did not move down to Sussex till Autumn 1969, so just wanted to check I was not going madder.
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
I hope he informed Mr Barber he wasn't there so the attendance figures could be adjusted
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I think i must have been really early for the Huddersfield game a couple of weeks ago, because it seemed to go n for ****ing hours and hours
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I'll raise you even more! If anyone remembers the dreadful Halifax (away) debacle of 2001. My daughter really fancied going to the game. So in my wisdom, I took one day's holiday (I had to work on Saturday) and because my motor was in a dodgy state I booked a hire car for the weekend.
It tonked it down on the Friday night and they played a Rugby League game that evening at the Shay. So come Saturday morning, at 8.00 am, checked Ceefax (remember that!) to find the Albion match was still on. Off we went and 200+ miles later arrived in deepest Halifax to find the rugby posts still in situ - and guess what!
That weekend cost me fortune and as someone has already mentioned, thank Gawd we've now got decent mobile phones and t'internet.
I was going to attend that match, but heard of the cancellation as I set out. I know a few, like yourself, we're less fortunate.
Reinelt12
Sick Note
I was minding my business on a family day out at Leeds Castle 9 years ago when in the queue these Japanese guys were asking where the football ground was... it appears that they were supposed to be seeing the Leeds United (Champions of Europe) against Cardiff... and were non too happy when told they were approximately 300 miles away!!
Langley
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In the 70ties last but one game was against QPR, went with my mate, did not know where the ground was, and at Chiswick got behind a car with a QPR sticker so decided to follow it, after a while I said to mate don't think this is the right way, the car stopped and the driver got out and said are r you following me for any reason, when we told him why, he said he wasn't going to the game.
But he said follow him and he will take us there.
We were already relegated then and they promoted , think we lost one nil !!!
But he said follow him and he will take us there.
We were already relegated then and they promoted , think we lost one nil !!!
el punal
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I was at that match and you're right we were relegated and QPR were promoted with Burnley. We in fact lost 2-0 and played in yellow. We were awful that season and I think we lost 13!! games on the bounce.
The other interesting point to note about that season - the Albion played at Fulham and lost 5-1, a certain Alan Mullery was playing for Fulham and smacked one of his own team mates for not trying. Mike Bamber, who later became the Albion chairman, was so impressed with Mullery's desire and will to win that he appointed Mullers as manager three years later because of that incident!
Every cloud has a silver lining eh!
atfc village
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Tthat happened to a coach load of Blackburn fans in the 70's
Half Time Pies
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One game back in the withdean days my mate and I turned up steaming drunk after consuming several cans of special brew. At half time my mate went to the toilets and never returned, I then received a call from my confused friend sometime later whilst the second half was being played. He was at the station awaiting a train back to Brighton and wondering where I was. In his boozed up state he had mistaken the half time whistle for full time!
That makes sense. Travel 5 times the distance to play a team in a town a 5th of the size, in a team 5 leagues below. it would not be so bad but they used to watch the Brighton home games at Gillingham,
el punal
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I think i must have been really early for the Huddersfield game a couple of weeks ago, because it seemed to go n for ****ing hours and hours
Are you the person that the Amex staff found fast asleep in your seat two days later?
spanishdave
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Same thing happened to me, my friend text me after the Norwich game to tell me that he was sitting behind a couple of Brighton fans heading to the amex for an evening kickoff, he didn't enjoy being the one to tell them it started at 3pm and the result didn't go our way. Suppose the result wasn't too much of a shock to them. 
He'd already stated that it was during the Goldstone days. Up to your usual standard of posts, eh Jimbob5.
34064 Fighter Command
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Not me, I even was able to listen to Johnny C and Guy Butters on 5Live Sports Xtra from 12:10 onwards - a rare luxury from where I listen....... ( Obviously the BBC were covering it for the Watford interest but it was nice to listen to BBC Sussex, and not 'Three Counties' radio as they make us sound 'half' decent ).
Oh shut up you silly perv.
What has my being a pervert got to do with you not being able to read comments properly?
If you read both posts again you'll see I did not actually say that Brighton had played their home games at Gillingham PRIOR to this incident. Even if I did, when has inadvertently missing a sentence been worse than British adults going all the way to Dorset and back because he thought Gillingham FC the professional club played there?