6th August 2011 - looking back now...

[Daffy Duck]

Well, I blabbed loads & not ashamed to say so.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I wept before the game. Goldstone, Gillingham and Withdean. We've finally got there, and every game just gives you that extra special feeling.

 

[Kumquat]

I didn't cry til afterwards which surprised me really. I usually get very emotional about the albion. However I'm completely unemotional about most other things. When ET was getting ready to get on his flying saucer or whatever the f*** it was and go home, I laughed and said "Go on then son, do one!". I thought everyone else was crying because the film was so shit.

 

[HantsSeagull]

I wasn't there and I didn't cry, I was in Greece on a family holiday (ffs) so I didn't know the result for quite a while...

bad decision!

I was very emotional but managed not to cry.

apart from the usual kids being born stuff, it was quite simply the best day of my life!

 

[Curious Orange]

I wouldn't say full on tears, but as GOSBTS was belting out, and the flags were waving, my eyes were wet, and the lump in my throat nearly choked me.

This was precisely the point where I was welling up too. To use an old NSC phrase - MARVELLOUS SCENES!

 

[SeagullSongs]

bad decision!

I was very emotional but managed not to cry.

apart from the usual kids being born stuff, it was quite simply the best day of my life!

It wasn't my choice

 

[Chicken Run]

I did not cry.

 

[Mellotron]

Piss off all of you.

I was at a WEDDING.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Goose bumps - yes
Hairs standing up on the back of my neck - yes
Crying - no

THIS.

 

[Upper Library]

Had a slight tear in the eye as the teams came onto the pitch. Really think that is my best moment in the 33 years of supporting the Albion.
If we ever get to the premiership that may be a close second but don't think anything will better that moment.

 

[Bozza]

I thought I'd completed my own personal journey to the Amex somewhere between the SSC Final and the Spurs game, but I was wrong and I blubbed a wee bit in the pre-match build up - most notably the highlights reel they played (and indeed, still do) with the flags and the noise etc.

In fact that highlights reel still gets me quite emotional at games now. There have been so many incredible moments from the last 30 years or so, and it just sort of sums up the massively important place the Albion has had, and still has, in my life.

 

[Hillian1]

Piss off all of you.

I was at a WEDDING.

So was I, and reading this just makes me die inside just that little bit more.

 

[Mellotron]

So was I, and reading this just makes me die inside just that little bit more.

Yup. I convinced myself that the Spurs game would do. It WAS special for me, but clearly not the same.

When I checked my phone and saw Buckley 98', I had a strange mixture of happiness and being absolutely GUTTED.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Had a slight tear in the eye as the teams came onto the pitch. Really think that is my best moment in the 33 years of supporting the Albion.
If we ever get to the premiership that may be a close second but don't think anything will better that moment.

It was certainly (to my surprise) my best moment supporting the Albion in 40 years. That includes cup semi-finals, finals and various promotions along the way. Nothing could beat the relief of when we escaped relegation against Hereford but nothing comes close, for me, to that moment when Buckley scored in the 98th minute. That capped an absolutely perfect day, the emotion at finding ourselves in our new home, the fantastic atmosphere and then the icing on the cake with that stunning finish!

 

[Storer 68]

Couldn't cry. Way too gobsmacked taking it all in!

Could not believe me F@@@@@G eyes!!!!!!!!

Closest thing I could liken it to, was seeing MY team walk out at WEMBLEY in the FA CUP FINAL.

And ........

it was my brother's birthday........................... and he was standing next to me!

and a 98th minute WINNER.

Just the BEST day EVER

WHAT A DAY!

 

[Hillian1]

Yup. I convinced myself that the Spurs game would do. It WAS special for me, but clearly not the same.

When I checked my phone and saw Buckley 98', I had a strange mixture of happiness and being absolutely GUTTED.

It was my daughters wedding, I even asked her to move it but alas the lady was not for turning.

My other daughters husband is a season ticket holder also and he went to the game after the service, I blubbed when he drove out of the car park to go to the game, and the little bastard never gave me the flag that was on my seat and let his sister keep it.

 

[countryman]

Didn't cry a bit. But the grin on my face lasted for a couple of months and it comes back every time I watch the highlights of the game.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Just posted this on the other thread but it's worth going on here too

There is nothing like football is there .........

 

[leigull]

There is nothing like football is there .........

It's how the crowd go from roaring the team on, to silence when they realise Buckley is about to strike it, and then instant pandemonium when it beats the keeper, AWESOME