Which of these is the strangest Brighton game you've been to?

[jackalbion]

fc united at home last year just very odd game one shot for them tarrico scoring missed penalty

 

[kevo]

However, I'll nominate the 7-0 thrashing of Walsall at the Goldstone in 1977/78:
Conditions were appalling, it'd been raining all day. Walsall's centre half was Roger Hynd who'd played for Rangers, Palace and Birmingham, having also won a Cup Winners Cup Winners medal with the Glasgow club back in the 60's. 0-0 at HT; we were useless, Hynd was dominant and everyone in the East Terrace was absolutely soaked, one of our number even had a "Pornomagboy" hissy fit a few decades early and went off to the pub. Mullery sent the team out 5 minutes early to wait in the rain; the rest is history and summarised by the NSC username "Mellor 3, Ward 4".

It was 76/77, not 77/78. One of the few home games I missed that season (wasn't really allowed to go to midweek matches - and, guttingly, also managed to miss the Saturday match v York!).

I remember the weather across Sussex that night was absolutely atrocious. Listened to the updates on 'Radio Brighton' (as it was in those days). Sounded dire at 0-0, and still 0-0 a fair way into the second half... then every time they went over we'd scored two more goals...

I heard that for the seventh, with both Ward and Mellor on three each, Mellor had a shot where the ball hit one post rolled across the line, hit the other, then Wardy tapped it in - so he ended up getting four. Is this true?

 

[Shoreham Beach Seagull]

Sheffield United at home in 2002 still can't explain Prossers decisions

 

[7:18]

This. This one, or the defeat to 9 man Walsall.

While the Stockport game mentioned in the first post was my FIRST match as a season ticket holder (had just moved to the country, had been following the team for years and been to many games as a younger lad), the Walsall defeat is the most embarassing and will sadly stick with me forever.

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

This. This one, or the defeat to 9 man Walsall.

Going down to 9 men is always memorable. Great night when we beat Hull 2-0 at their place despite subsequently having 2 sent off.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I've seen loads of weird stuff at a Brighton game but just for sheer comedy value the away game at Q.P.R I think 2006. Brighton fans were treated like shit and were lucky get in the ground. We were appalling and lucky to be only 1-0 down at half time. They had a player sent off and still dominated. Doug loft game on near the end and managed to spoon a shot that went off a couple of their players and trickled over the line to earn us a point. We were so awful and the goal so lucky I didn't celebrate I was pissing myself laughing, actually in hysterics.


Sent by Derek Acorah via the spirit world.

 

[chez]

15 years this season, but these stick out. Can you argue that they're the strangest games of recent years? Feel free to add your own. I can't think of any games stranger than those 3, they just happen to be recent.

The two that immediately sping to mind are the 3-2 win over Chester City in the last game of the season around 1994ish. They were bottom and had the worst goal difference ever or something like that. They went 2 -0 up inside 10 minutes, we came back to win it 3-2.

The other game was Walsall at home at Wihdean when they had 2 sent off includng their keeper (they didnt have one on the bench either i dont think) at 0-0. We ended up putting in about 50 crosses that day and lost 1-0. That was the game when I realised that Micky Adams wasn't a very good manager at all really!!

 

[Vegas Seagull]

With a nod to all of the above, I'd like to nominate the Cup Final at Wembley...100,000, team arriving by helicopter, Jimmy Melia's White shoes, extraordiaey feeling walking down a packed Empire Way

 

[bhafc99]

Many of these for me too. Especially the 4-4 draw with Orient at the Goldstone, and that rearranged game against York.

I also have vague memories of a Goldstone game where the ref decided the opposition's shirts clashed too much with our stripes. So they ended wearing our change kit. So it looked like Brighton vs Brighton. Can't for the life of me remember who or when it was though...

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Indeed. Anyway, to answer the question, it's probably the Kelvin Morton show at that stadium in South Norwood. The 5 penalties in a game match for those who have no idea what I'm on about.

Well said old chap! This!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Many of these for me too. Especially the 4-4 draw with Orient at the Goldstone, and that rearranged game against York.

I also have vague memories of a Goldstone game where the ref decided the opposition's shirts clashed too much with our stripes. So they ended wearing our change kit. So it looked like Brighton vs Brighton. Can't for the life of me remember who or when it was though...

It might not be this game that you are thinking of, but in the infamous 2-8 defeat to Bristol Rovers in 1973/74, Bristol Rovers were wearing Albion's yellow change kit because ITV deemed Rovers' change kit too similar for viewers watching in black and white.

 

[Woodchip]

I've like to add BHA 1 - 5 Stoke City.

The only match I've ever known the fans switch allegiance and Stoke sing "you're gonna win 6-5" after Doug Loft (?) scored an 87th (?) minute goal.

It's okay though, as McGhee reminded us the result didn't matter.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Of those the 0-4 Crewe game is the most memorable for me.
These were in the days when we usualy scored but almost always conceded, and I used to regulalry have a bet on there being a total of four goals or more in the game.
This particular week I had had a few bob on it.
It was a shite game as you may remember and when the third goal went in after about 80 minutes the boos were loud and many started leaving.
When the fourth goal went in the place emptied, amid a cacophony of booing and jeering.
However, there was one person in the South stand at Withdean laughing all the way to the bookies

 

[NMH]

Dean White's Brighton And Hove Albion 0-4 Crewe Alexandra

I'm still struggling to recall this Dean White person.

 

[NMH]

fc united at home last year just very odd game one shot for them tarrico scoring missed penalty

This!
All about the support though - they had their 12th man...and thirteenth and fourteenth and fifteenth, with that crowd.
All sorts of songs, even 'Sloop John B' got rolled out.
It illustrated how unimaginative and dim our "Aaal-bi-on" chants are.
The game matched that by us having to struggle to get a draw and replay.

 

[itszamora]

How the f*** was that a league 1 relegation battling midfield!?

Probably because the ball was repeatedly launched over their heads from the back. Thank goodness times have changed, this thread makes me remember how truly toilet we were not more than about 3 or 4 years ago.

 

[Billy the Fish]

None of them. Pretty much every game in the 96-97 season was stranger than those

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The other game was Walsall at home at Wihdean when they had 2 sent off includng their keeper (they didnt have one on the bench either i dont think) at 0-0. We ended up putting in about 50 crosses that day and lost 1-0. That was the game when I realised that Micky Adams wasn't a very good manager at all really!!

That would definitely make for a better story, but no, the keeper was not sent off. It was 2 outfield players.

The keeper was Clayton Ince, who proceeded to drive the Albion fans mental all game, by rolling around and clutching the ball to his chest, EVERY time he collected it, even if it rolled tamely along the ground to him, or spooned gently into his hands.

 

[acrossthepond]

This. This one, or the defeat to 9 man Walsall.

This one - bonkers.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Brighton v Burnley, because that's the only game I've been to out of the three.