[Football] Memories of yesteryear from going to football

[Eric Youngs Contact Lens]

subs standing out so much because they had the only clean kits on.
Physios with bucket and sponge
that smell of tobacco that so many others have mentioned.. lovely..

 

[zefarelly]

Now, can someone correct me if I'm wrong. I got to go on the pitch at the Goldstone a couple of times and I remember the goalposts not being perfectly round, but a bit... convex?

Am I remembering that right? Or was my 8 year old self seeing things?

they where square and made of wood when I was 8.

 

[Official Old Man]

The Condor man was my Uncle Brian. It's a smell that will always take me back. He was a season ticket holder in the West Stand and purchased my ST for the South.
South Stand wooden benches.
My memory has gone. Keeper with moustache who done the Groucho Marx cigar when coming into goal.
My season ticket was a tear off slip from a book.
I could drink more than 4 pints at lunchtime.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Keeper with moustache who done the Groucho Marx cigar when coming into goal.

The only keeper with a moustache I can recall was Eric Steele.

 

[Driver8]

The only keeper with a moustache I can recall was Eric Steele.

Graham Moseley had one.

 

[zefarelly]

The only keeper with a moustache I can recall was Eric Steele.

beat me too it, Pre Magnum too. Handsome chap. good keeper too.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Memory might be playing tricks, but I seem to recall an occasional Football Special shuttle train that ran between Brighton and Hove and was a cattle truck. Literally. The carriages had a roof, a floor and four walls and, er, that was about it

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The smell of the linament on the players legs (circa 1963) when I stood at the front of the chicken run. John Dillon, Roy Jennings, Granny Goodchild and George Waites spring to mind.

And in 1969, Stewart Henderson, who not only had an abundance of Wintergreen linament on him, but also very shiny brown legs

 

[Artie Fufkin]

Every time I hear Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" it takes me back to sitting with my Dad and older brother in the South Stand at the Goldstone watching the players warm up before the match. They seemed to always play it during the warm up. I can picture Johnny Crumplin now.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Do players still use linament at ANY level? Was an ever-present whiff in the depths of the Lewes League when I played in that many moons ago. Never quite worked out why anybody used it. All I can say is it clearly wasn't for performance-enhancement reasons

 

[Gwylan]

Programmes that had line-ups that were wild guesses. My copies generally had more corrections on them than my geography homework had

 

[Thunder Bolt]

subs standing out so much because they had the only clean kits on.
Physios with bucket and sponge
that smell of tobacco that so many others have mentioned.. lovely..

I smoked cigarettes for 20 odd years but my abiding memory was being a broke teenager, getting home to find my only coat had a cigarette burn in the back. Thankfully the dry cleaners could do an 'invisible repair',

 

[Official Old Man]

The only keeper with a moustache I can recall was Eric Steele.

Graham Moseley had one.

I hate things that drive me mad when I've nothing to do. I'm sure it was in the late 70's pre promotion days but Eric joined in 1979 for our 1st Div days. Graham was the keeper in the 77 to 79 seasons but I don't think it was him. HELP.

 

[blue-shifted]

It's the sounds

I can still remember the voice of the programme seller (and the Gulls eye seller who stood next to him) on the corner near the top of Newtown Road

The sound of people listening to Sports Report on radios as I left the ground

As others have said, the mechanical clank of the turnstiles

Magical

 

[Eddiespearritt]

Wakey wakey - from the top of the East Terrace.

20000 crowds for reserve games because they were selling tickets for a big League Cup match.

 

[zefarelly]

I hate things that drive me mad when I've nothing to do. I'm sure it was in the late 70's pre promotion days but Eric joined in 1979 for our 1st Div days. Graham was the keeper in the 77 to 79 seasons but I don't think it was him. HELP.

I was going to say John Phillips, played once and we beat Palarse 3-2 . . I was there, he mad a cracking save I remember to this day . . .

I don't think he had a tache though.

 

[amexer]

Wooden rattle
Home made box to stand on
Muddy pitches
Watching training in Hove Park. Yes they did use tracksuit tops as goals
Argus seller
Able to walk to behind other goal at half time
Half time scores
Burnley think it was 3-3 and England player Ray Pointer was playing
Passed over the crowd

 

[PeakGull]

Chipmunk Crisps and a Wagon Wheel at half time.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Floodlights across Hove Park
Pipe tobacco
Metal alphabet plates for half-times
Peanut/crisp vendor marching round the red surround
My home made wooden stool
Liniment
A couple of match balls for warm-ups where they just knocked it about

Mmmmmm, yes, isn't it?

 

[Mackenzie]

Talking of goalies, John Burridge doing handstands.



...and a young David James giving the north stand “v” signs.