Brighton 2 - Bristol Rovers 8 - December 1973

[Mendoza]

Were you there?

BBC are filming a piece about the game on Thursday, and need the views from a fan that was there. I said I would try and help them find someone

Any takers out there?

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[Sausage]

I wasn't there but..living in Bristol, as I now do, I get reminded about this on average every 0.3 seconds by Gasheads. Still..at least they're not Shitheads.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Why the f*** Are they doing a piece on that game?

f*** SAKE

Or are we going to YET AGAIN get the footage of Nigel on the bench with his dad. And then Brian Moore interviewing him in the studio.

f*** sake YAWN. Glad my licence fee contributes to this SHIT.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

The only time that whole season we were on the telly...shameful
My photoshoot rate is £500 per day, minimum (20% commission to agent)

 

[HantsSeagull]

could only watch as far as 1-5 - our RB and GK were having a mare!

 

[fosters headband]

Yep I was sadly there that day, one of my worst Albion match day memories

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Couldn't they do a piece instead on Albion going to the City Ground and beating the European champions?

At least that was filmed by BBC cameras and we haven't seen much footage from that.

The 2-8 game is readily available on the internet and was recorded by ITV.

 

[Mendoza]

I was just doing someone a favour by asking, so if anyone wants to give their views PM and I'll get the beeb guy to contact you. Cheers

 

[Gritt23]

Don't you just love the simplicity of the shirts. Certainly no sponsorship, they don't even have the makers name or the club badge.

 

[Storer 68]

Don't you just love the simplicity of the shirts. Certainly no sponsorship, they don't even have the makers name or the club badge.

very few shirts in the early seventies had badges or any embroidery as it wasn't technically possible to be done cheaply and easily. The advent of computerised garment manufacture and the move from cotton based shirts to man made fibre made it possible later in the seventies and eighties......

 

[Titanic]

I was there.. aged 10... not sure I can remember enough to be useful... other than it being rather miserable

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I was just doing someone a favour by asking, so if anyone wants to give their views PM and I'll get the beeb guy to contact you. Cheers

No worries. Wasn't trying to shoot the messenger. I apologise if that's how it landed with you. I'm just annoyed with the BBC for being so stingy with their football archives down the years.

Covering this game from The Big Match won't show any footage we haven't yet seen whereas a different match, from the BBC archives, probably would.

 

[ElkieB]

My first ever football match. Taken with a few friends as a birthday treat, but dont remember too much other than continually hearing Bannister and Warboys being announced as scorers.

 

[Brovion]

I was there. On the train on the way over I said to my mate "I hope it's not a boring 0-0!" Wish I'd kept my big mouth shut. From memory I don't think we knew it was televised until we got there and saw the camera gantrys, they didn't used to announce the televised games in advance in those days as they felt that, even though it was just highlights, the presence of cameras would stop people from going!

PS - Not being a media whore I have no wish to go on TV or radio and discuss it.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

The game should never have been played due to a frozen pitch.

Unfortunately, the intended televised game was at Stamford Bridge and was postrponed. TV cameras moved to the Goldstone and TV did not want another game postponed, unlike all the Albion players - hence the result.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I was there.. aged 10... not sure I can remember enough to be useful... other than it being rather miserable

Similar tale from me but I was the rather more tender age of 6. I still remember the excitement about Clough taking over and also the feeling of disbelief from the older Albion fans as we filed away from the ground. There was a fair bit of anger as well as one may imagine. But the Palace 3-1 hurt more!

 

[APACHE]

Yes I was there that day, all that can be said is that what could have gone wrong did, but remember that at the time the players said that they were in awe of Clough and many knew that their days at the club were numbered. Still whatever happened to Bristol Rovers?

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

lol i was there as a spotty 13 yr old I think this was the game that john vinicombe,s headline in the argus was Unlucky Brighton and my dad a non football fan said how can you be unlucky 8 times in the same match

 

[Sweeney Todd]

I was there, aged eight, and at the Walton & Hersham game a few weeks later.

Cloughie was on The Big Match the day after the Rovers game, and joked about Albion's performance, which annoyed me.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

never forget it,smash & grab (bannister & warboys)

if i remember rightly,we started cheering their goals in the end,brian powney had a nightmare

when the final whistle went,the north stand charged over to the south to have a go at the pirates fans,you could see them running left & right trying to get out

actually,we got out own back on them,by drawing at their place on the final day of the season,pretty sure it cost them the title,but they still went up