Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
20 years ago, almost to the day, 17th February 2001, we played away at Cheltenham, the infamous burger van on fire game. Good day out I recall, rather marred by losing 3-1 to a struggling team who played 70 minutes with 10 men. We were second in division 3, the bottom division, on our way to the title, but there were certainly nerves and pessimism on North Stand Chat.
I wonder what the 26 year old me would have thought if I'd been told that 20 years later we'd play Leeds, Spurs, Liverpool and Villa, all established top ten premier league sides at the time, in the space of a month, winning three, drawing 1 and keeping clean sheets in each game, two of them at our shiny 30,000 all seater stadium.
Disbelief I imagine. Of course if you told me there would still be nerves and pessimism on North Stand Chat, that would have been a lot easier to believe
We sometimes get grief at being an optimist on here, but it's been easy to be an optimist at Brighton when they've proved us right over and over again for two decades. Back then Micky asked us to keep the faith, and through Dick and Tony, Martin and Paul, Micky, Mark, Gus, Chris and Graham, Bobby, Gary, Danny, Charlie, Leon, Gordon, Inigo, Bruno, Anthony, Shane, Glenn, Solly, Lewis and Adam's-a-plenty, and many many more, they've deserved that faith.
My thought for a Sunday evening. Up the Albion
I wonder what the 26 year old me would have thought if I'd been told that 20 years later we'd play Leeds, Spurs, Liverpool and Villa, all established top ten premier league sides at the time, in the space of a month, winning three, drawing 1 and keeping clean sheets in each game, two of them at our shiny 30,000 all seater stadium.
Disbelief I imagine. Of course if you told me there would still be nerves and pessimism on North Stand Chat, that would have been a lot easier to believe
We sometimes get grief at being an optimist on here, but it's been easy to be an optimist at Brighton when they've proved us right over and over again for two decades. Back then Micky asked us to keep the faith, and through Dick and Tony, Martin and Paul, Micky, Mark, Gus, Chris and Graham, Bobby, Gary, Danny, Charlie, Leon, Gordon, Inigo, Bruno, Anthony, Shane, Glenn, Solly, Lewis and Adam's-a-plenty, and many many more, they've deserved that faith.
My thought for a Sunday evening. Up the Albion
