The goldstone favourite

[Goring Gull]

Memory of heading towards the ground.

 

[LowKarate]

Rounding the corner from New Town Road into Goldstone Lane, getting the first sight of the crowds (I'm talking early 80s here) on the East Terrace and up towards the North Stand.

 

[Curious Orange]

Glimpsing the drench lights from the Dyke Road as we drove in.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

One of the only memories i have are of walking up those massive steps on the east terrace.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not exactly a 'favourite' memory, bit too ordinary for that, but always remember getting a programme from the seller on the corner by the church.

 

[miguelpea]

Catching the train from Brighton to Hove. phew bevvies, maybe.

 

[NMH]

Everything. I loved it all....except perhaps the stinky North pisser, and the East Terrace moaners (which is why I confined it to about two visits to that wanker-infested area)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Catching the train from Brighton to Hove.

Ah, yes, the 'Football Special'. Sort of a cow shed on wheels if memory serves

 

[miguelpea]

people used to hang out the window and were even occasionally, and tragically, decapitated in the tunnel.

 

[dougdeep]

My Dad parking in the goods yard and moaning that he had to pay.

 

[jevs]

The smell of pipe tobacco in the north stand in the 70's

 

[Uncle C]

The moment our team ran out the tunnel to the sound of GOSBTS.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Whenever a goal was scored in front of the Northstand

 

[cardboard]

The Argus man

Arrrrrrrrrggggggguuuuuuusssssssss

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Not exactly a 'favourite' memory, bit too ordinary for that, but always remember getting a programme from the seller on the corner by the church.

Yup, programme and fanzine by the church and first glimpse of the swelling crowd in the North Stand. Also the chants of "Seagulls" ringing around the railway tunnel as you walked up to the church. Even the bus depot was part of the whole matchday experience!

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

The houses over looking the ground.
It gave it a something nowhere else had.
Was it me or during the games in August early September the air seemed different to any other ground.
Have not been to Blackpool so don't know if it was something to do with the sea?
HAMPSHIRE DAVE

 

[jevs]

That fantastic evening in May, 1977 when you beat Sheff wed 3-2 to get promotion in front of 32,000. The only time i've ever been on the Goldstone pitch.

Oh...Mervyn Day trying to be a flash !!!! in front of the north stand and getting caught in the nets...v Leeds circa 1988....never laughed so much in my life !!!

 

[chez]

That fantastic evening in May, 1977 when you beat Sheff wed 3-2 to get promotion in front of 32,000. The only time i've ever been on the Goldstone pitch.

Oh...Mervyn Day trying to be a flash !!!! in front of the north stand and getting caught in the nets...v Leeds circa 1988....never laughed so much in my life !!!

I remember that game well, 2-2 Ian Chapman own goal off of his shin in front of the north stand and a late late John Crumplin equaliser down in the south.

 

[Rangdo]

Sitting on the terraces in the North Stand reading Gulls Eye before kick off.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

people used to hang out the window and were even occasionally, and tragically, decapitated in the tunnel.

But it was all part of the matchday atmosphere.