[Albion] 20 years ago tonight....

[timbha]

We lost 4-3 at home to Rochdale at a flooded Withdean.

We’ve come a long way baby !!!!

 

[Hampster Gull]

We were in the gutter but looking at the stars

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I took a nephew to his first game. Never been so wet. I'm sure it must have been entertaining. It was just wet.

 

[Gwylan]

I missed that. I was in Israel that week (and encountered a taxi driver who'd heard of the Albion because of Moshe Gariani and Jacob Cohen)

 

[Pevenseagull]

probably the only game that I wished I'd left early

 

[Charlie Muggins]

I remember that game!! Rained so hard that my trainers turned blue from the dye running out of my jeans....didn't we equalise late on to make it 3-3 only for (I think) Clive Platt to score the winner in the last minute? Had to walk back to Churchill square soaked to the skin after.....

 

[Pevenseagull]

10mins to go .....
they, "xxxx this, let's go for a pint"
me, "BLAH BLAH BLAH"
they, "xxxx you, we are going for a pint"
me, "xxxx you"

3-2 up

...............what could possibly go wrong?

 

[hart's shirt]

Absolutely soaked through.

Did the ponchos (available in a stylish blue or white) arrive on the South Stand seats immediately after that game?

Happy days.

 

[Pevenseagull]

I've only just dried out

 

[ac gull]

bloody wet I was that night

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We lost 4-3 at home to Rochdale at a flooded Withdean.

We’ve come a long way baby !!!!

I was there. Did they not score the winner quite late (I left bang on 85 minutes, obviously)?

Edit: yes, I see my memory isn't as unreliable as I thought.

 

[Icy Gull]

I was there. Did they not score the winner quite late (I left bang on 85 minutes, obviously)?

Edit: yes, I see my memory isn't as unreliable as I thought.

I believe so, absolutely gutting it was too. I was in the covered North Stand and still got an absolute soaking so I cannot comprehend how wet those in the South Stand got.

 

[portlock seagull]

Remember that night. Yoof fans will simply not believe that the drainage was so bad during the first season especially that a sinkhole appeared as a frustrated Micky Adams and Alan Cork appealed to improve the surface which was affecting out style of play.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I seem to recall Graeme Atkinson scoring a screamer?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I remember the night clearly, absolutely soaked by the end of it. My mobile phone never worked again. 2 down to pull it back to 2-2 at half time, Cullip scored seconds after coming on as a first half sub, ran the length of the pitch celebrating with his shirt above his head. 3-2 up with mins to go and then let in two very late goals. One of the worse nights at Withdean without a doubt, and I say that as someone with a soft spot for Rochdale as its where I was born.

Hard to believe it's 20 years ago. A few months after that we signed a young lad called Bobby Zamora, wonder what happened to him.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Ah the Theatre of Wet Bums.

We must have been bloody mad!

 

[bobby baxter]

God, that was an awful night, sat in the South Stand next to a chap with his two boys who were aged about 10 and 11, they left at half time, dripping wet, unable to take any more. Lot of anger around at the final whistle I recall

 

[big nuts]

I seem to recall Graeme Atkinson scoring a screamer?

Wouldn’t have thought so I don’t think he played under Adams. Definitely didn’t play at Withdean.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Wouldn’t have thought so I don’t think he played under Adams. Definitely didn’t play at Withdean.

For Rochdale

He went there after Scunthorpe

 

[portslade seagull]

We lost 4-3 at home to Rochdale at a flooded Withdean.

We’ve come a long way baby !!!!

That was the only downer out in the open subject to anything the weather threw at us. Still wouldn't have missed it though