I wasn't there. Amazing as it seems now, I was 7 years old and literally had no idea that a sport called football existed. I knew rugby and cricket but had never heard of football. I think that was the season I learned about it (although I didn't see my first match until I saw the 1966 cup final...
You can joke about it but there really was a plan to demolish the Pavilion and build flats on it. And it wasn't in the crazy 60s, when demolition was all the rage, but in the 1930s.
It's an absolute non-starter of an idea. We wouldn't be allowed to build anything in the South Downs National Park so we'd be back to the ideas that were rejected first time around: Waterhall, Sheepcote, Beeding Cement Works - all non-starters because of lack of public transport access. Shoreham...
I remember us beating them at the Amex when, coincidentally, we won by a penalty that was wrongly given ... when an attacker stepped on a defender's foot (can't remember either player). Ah, the days before VAR