AMAZING birthday prezzie

[Easy 10]

Check this out. My daughter ordered me a big book of original Daily Mirror sports page prints of match reports from loads of Albions biggest games, going back to 1908.

FABULOUS reading. A 2-2 draw with Liverpool at the Goldstone ion 1958 when police were called after Albion fans pelted Liverpools keeper with orange peel. A 3-1 win over Palace in 1984, when our second was scored by Terry Connor - "the strapping black lad scored with a near post header"

I could spend all night flicking through this. In fact I think I will.

 

[Martin Lambert]

Where did she get all those from then? Sounds like an excellent prezzie!!

 

[narly101]

Brighton & Hove Albion - Personalised Football Book


here?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Hi Easy,my son bought me this book...(big book) for my birthday in Feb,fab reading,I started supporting Albion in the late 50s so it's nice to be able to revive memories...enjoy..I did,only trouble was finding a bookcase to keep it!

 

[Fef]

That's great ! I've now got Mrs Fef's Christmas present sorted - thanks for the idea. It's either this or a new Black & Decker cordless drill.

 

[Gazwag]

Brighton & Hove Albion - Personalised Football Book


here?

Do you get the reading glasses with it?

 

[Gwylan]

Looks fantastic - might drop hints about that.

Not sure about the Latin emblem for the de luxe edition though - Decorus Venatus, that's a strange choice of words for The Beautiful Game. Might need Rex Cathedra's input on that.

 

[Easy 10]

Brighton & Hove Albion - Personalised Football Book


here?

Yep, thats the kiddy. I can hardly put it down, once I start leafing through it there's LOADS of great little snippets in there. A "nervous looking David Seaman" making his debut for Birmingham as we turn them over 2-0. And some of the non-Albion related stuff is excellent as well. Aberdeen manager Alex Ferguson apologising for his "astonishing outburst" seconds after they'd won the cup when he said 'Aex McLeish and Willy Miller won the cup for us. The rest were a disgrace'. Same old miserable bastard even then.

There is one GLARING ommission though. It has the final game at the Goldstone, but for some reason Hereford was omitted completely which is a shame. One thing I never knew about though -the match report for Orient v Hereford is on that page the day we bet Donnie. Orient beat Hereford 2-1 to give us that glimmer of hope on the final day, but Orients winning goal was actually flagged OFFSIDE by the lino, only for the ref to overrule him and allow the goal to stand (much to Graham Turners fury).

PHE-EEWWW

 

[Braders]

VERY tempted to get that

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Looks excellent! Who was the referee for Orient vs Hereford?

 

[Easy 10]

Looks excellent! Who was the referee for Orient vs Hereford?

A certain Steve Bennett.
Perhaps we should name one of the stands after him ?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

A new Albion legend is born! A picture on the Wall of Heroes, surely?

 

[GOM]

Shop around, our local Costco are selling the same thing for the local teams round here for £9.99