Who here can remember...........

[Sully's Moustache]

..........the significance of number 8049?

 

[Marc]

I dont know what that is, but I've found a website with all the classic tv themetunes and I've now got Rentaghost stuck in my head

http://tv.cream.org/themes/themes4.htm

 

[Albion Rob]

Was that the attendance at Hereford?

 

[Sully's Moustache]

No....but it is Albion related........(surprisingly for NSC)

 

[Seagullsgonnagetya]

Was that the attendance at Hereford?

Close... that was 8532

 

[Storer68]

In the manner of Tony Millard

"Hallo, you've rung Brighton 8049, the number for all Albion information, every day, twenty four hours a day.....................


and before we give you details of how to apply for your Cup Final tickets, here is a long, tedious, but very profitable piece on the results of Seagull Lottery No 654, and news of how the groundstaff are gearing up for the big day...............

 

[Italiaseagull]

Was it the number of games played at the Goldstone?

 

[Sully's Moustache]

Spot on Storer 68, although I seem to remember "You've rung the Seagull Line on Brighton 8049, the number...................etc"

Ah, memories of those pre-internet days.!

I remember phoning it once from a phonebox in a small village in Crete, finding out that we'd beaten Norwich 2-0 then running round the village square yeliing "Seagulls" much to the bemusement of the villagers.

 

[Albion Rob]

Re. Tony Millard

I heard there are some very dark rumours about him, but the person who told me refused to reveal more. At the risk of setting the former Sky Sports minority sports reporter up for all kind of slaggin, anyone shed any light on it?

 

[sherriffbart]

8049..the number for Albion information, every day, 24 hours a day...and its bad news for the Albion!!!!!

How many bloody times did you phone that number when Albion were playing away in the old 3rd and 4th division to hear these words when we had let a goal in, in the last 5 minutes of a game!!!!!

 

[sherriffbart]

Mr Millard was ...how shall we say this....involved allegedly with younger members of the male population

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

And before that it was 0891 800 609. "You've already spent £1.35 listening to GOSBTS and there's another fiver going down the pan before I tell you anything worthwhile at all..."

I got challenged by the missus once for spending too much on it and she asked what it was. Smugly, with a "don't worry" expression I dialed the number and gave the phone to her to listen to it. Sods law of course I got the flaming number wrong. Her jaw dropped as she listened to a self-help health line for teenagers concerned about masturbation.

 

[Albion Rob]

That just made me splutted my tea.

 

[Italiaseagull]

Tony Millard was sitting in front of me on the plane to Newcastle, he got very irate when all the NAC Breda fans started singing. We kept making comments about him being an old Queen to see if he responded.

 

[Storer68]

And before that it was 0891 800 609. "You've already spent £1.35 listening to GOSBTS and there's another fiver going down the pan before I tell you anything worthwhile at all..."

I got challenged by the missus once for spending too much on it and she asked what it was. Smugly, with a "don't worry" expression I dialed the number and gave the phone to her to listen to it. Sods law of course I got the flaming number wrong. Her jaw dropped as she listened to a self-help health line for teenagers concerned about masturbation.

Sorry but 8049 was way before 0891 800 609 ( a number so popular it had its own coffee mug)

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Sorry but 8049 was way before 0891 800 609 ( a number so popular it had its own coffee mug)

Silly me

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ah, Tony Millard. Still wearing the same old sheepskin jacket.

I once got sent the link to the ALbion Mobile site, where you can download images to use as wallpaper or screensavers on your phone. Alongside Gary Hart, Zamora and even Micky Adams, was a picture of Tony Millard, complete with headphones the size of Bournemouth.

Wonder if there's anybody out there who downloaded Tone for their Phone.

 

[The Large One]

I remember Millard doing an immediate post-match report a few years aog on what was Southern Sound. He was live on air, and at the end of the report, instead of handing back to the studio he, "that's the Seagull Line on Brighton 80... er, and back to you in the Southern Sound studio."

Last season, Danny Cullip was being interviewed by Millard, after the Albion had won by a very mossy goal to nil against - I think - Nottingham Forest. Millard suggested that the goal was a bit fortunate. Cullip replied, "Well, we don't mind how they go in Tony... as you should know."

 

[Jambo Seagull]

I heard the rumours back in the 80's.

Just hearing his name takes me back to the Goldstone, walking across Hove Park on a chill November afternoon with my bruv and Dad, hearing the strains of GOSBTS wafting over Old Shoreham Road, jumpers for goalposts..............marvellous, isn't it?

 

[Sully's Moustache]

.........Ron Pavey blowing into his microphone, Frankie Howard the groundsman, Jackpot....................ah, the nostalgia!