[Albion] Times when you've gone to the Albion but know you really shouldn't......

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Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
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rippleman said:
When as a group of schoolkids we booked a coach (with Plumpton coaches) to go to the City Ground to watch us in a League Cup quarter final at the then European Champions. We organised it ourselves, collected the money and had a good, well organised trip without any adult involvement. We filled the coach and all skivved off and so far as I can recall there were no repercussions!

Ironically, the Seagull Special train broke down on the way and those fans never made it.
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Was it a Varndean School coach? Our car broke down on the way to the ground and had to hitch a lift on the motorway. Got a lift from Jamie Baker, the then Argus journalist, but had to find a way back home. I went round the coach park to find a coach that would take me home and got a lift from the Varndean coach.

As for games I shouldn't have gone to. I went to the Leicester match at Withdean the day after we moved into our house. I left Mrs Gwylan cleaning and tidying things away. It wasn't as if I was gone all day - I was out for about three hours but she was still talking about it many years later.
 




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tronnogull

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May 17, 2010
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Wednesday Sept 24, 1969. Home to First division Wolves in the third round of the League Cup. We lost 3-2 but came very close to giant killing them, were leading 2-1 late into the second half.

But........HCGSB had their awards evening ( or something like that ) scheduled the same evening and attendance was obligatory.
Those ( many ) of us who went to the football instead were in trouble, although I cannot recall what the punishment was...
 


ozzygull

ozzygull

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Oct 6, 2003
4,173
Reading
Something my husband has never forgiving me for, was when we played Spurs in the League cup in 2014 (Sami Hyypia was in charge) I said if I get him a ticket we could make a day of it go, in to London have some dinner before going to the match. That was all good util we got to the ground and I explained his ticket was in the upper tier and not in the lower one with me. He was not happy, he does not have a lot of interest in football and sitting on his own was not ideal. He still brings it up every now and again.
 


Reagulls

Reagulls

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Jul 22, 2013
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My daughter had one of those school dance shows at the Brighton Dome, told my ex wife that I had to work and went to the Amex for an evening Championship game.
I was in two minds whether to go or not but a work colleague swayed me by saying he'd been to his kids version of it, his kid was on stage for about 6 minutes and then he had to sit through the other 2 hours of it!

my ex some months later during one of "those" conversations said something along the lines of " I know you've said before you are working and have gone to the football" :shrug:
 


southstandandy

southstandandy

WEST STAND ANDY
Jul 9, 2003
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The re-arranged York City game at the Goldstone on Thursday morning 9th May 1996.

I bunked off work in the morning to go saying I had a dental appt. Was allowed in to the west stand by the then kit man.
 
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