27th April 1996

[YCTV]

Hello Brighton fans,

I have just been adding some stuff to the York City FC online archive and thought you might be interested in this clip from the famous 1996 abandoned game at the Goldstone Ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yZ8CM9wEI

You've probably seen all of this stuff a million times before but I hope it's of interest to you - I certainly shan't forget being in the away end that afternoon.

All the best,

Phil
YCTV.

 

[The Large One]

So what are your memories of it?

Were you pissed off at the abandoning of the match?

 

[YCTV]

Good question.

I think my first thought was "oh sh*t we are going to die" when the mass of Brighton fans were coming towards us, then it was obvious it was all going to be good natured. I think there were only about 200-250 of us. I remember catching a piece of turf thrown to me by a Brighton fan which I kept at home in a plant pot afterwards. I eventually wandered onto the pitch, chatted with some Brighton fans who, after explaining the point of what they had done, made me feel better about the wasted journey.

Never seen anything like it previously or since.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Check out all the lads in the Liam Gallagher sunglasses.

shiiiiiiite

 

[Seagullible]

I can make out a very young me in the back of the North stand just after Chapopers gets his TV

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Hello Brighton fans,

I have just been adding some stuff to the York City FC online archive and thought you might be interested in this clip from the famous 1996 abandoned game at the Goldstone Ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yZ8CM9wEI

You've probably seen all of this stuff a million times before but I hope it's of interest to you - I certainly shan't forget being in the away end that afternoon.

All the best,

Phil
YCTV.

I've not seen that before(well, parts of it I have but not all that). Nice one!

 

[poidy]

Whats with 6 or so of them pricks starting on that poor fucker on his own?

Wankers

 

[scouse23]

Think he started first if you watch it.

 

[surrey jim]

I remember that game, was on my 11th Birthday and went with a couple of mates to the game. Really pissed off at the match being abandoned!!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Whats with 6 or so of them pricks starting on that poor fucker on his own?

Wankers

I was sat in the South Stand and I seem to remember that there were some that took exception to the 'callous attitude' of some to simply wreak havoc as opposed to concentrating on the real issue in hand.

Just an emotional day for many and tempers were bound to fray. They should have left it alone, but they didn't.

Without a doubt, my favourite ever Brighton 'game' and possibly the most important, bar perhaps Hereford or Doncaster.

 

[poidy]

I was sat in the South Stand and I seem to remember that there were some that took exception to the 'callous attitude' of some to simply wreak havoc as opposed to concentrating on the real issue in hand.

Just an emotional day for many and tempers were bound to fray. They should have left it alone, but they didn't.

Without a doubt, my favourite ever Brighton 'game' and possibly the most important, bar perhaps Hereford or Doncaster.

Thanks for clearing that up. Although im slightly concerned that this is your favourite ever game bar only Hereford and Doncaster . I can think of better spectacles than watching some mindless cretins snapping the goalposts into two. There was another thread yesterday regarding this day which someone described as peaceful. Hardly peaceful on that viewing!

 

[Chicken Run]

It's quite ironic that the old bill in the west were quite happy to stand there with bits being thrown at them yet a few crusties in town and all hell breaks loose

 

[porkypie]

Will never go to pompy!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Thanks for clearing that up. Although im slightly concerned that this is your favourite ever game bar only Hereford and Doncaster . I can think of better spectacles than watching some mindless cretins snapping the goalposts into two. There was another thread yesterday regarding this day which someone described as peaceful. Hardly peaceful on that viewing!

It was a means to an end. Whilst we did get a negative slant from the press reviews, it was finally in the mainstream media and brought attention to our plight. It was my favourite game in hindsight because I think that is what finally put the ball in our court and mobilised various people to take a real interest in what was going on and saved our skins.

It was also fun because I was an impressionable 15 year old and we were threatened with suspension from school, if we were found to have gone to the game.

I did say more important than either of the Hereford or Doncaster game.

 

[Harty]

It was a means to an end. Whilst we did get a negative slant from the press reviews, it was finally in the mainstream media and brought attention to our plight. It was my favourite game in hindsight because I think that is what finally put the ball in our court and mobilised various people to take a real interest in what was going on and saved our skins.

It was also fun because I was an impressionable 15 year old and we were threatened with suspension from school, if we were found to have gone to the game.

I did say more important than either of the Hereford or Doncaster game.

Bang on BOF, it certainly got us noticed nationally, John Lees was catapulted on to doing a colour piece on Grandstand, in fact internationally my mate phoned from Oz and said it was the second item on the Channel 9 news.

The only thing that I would say in hindsight is that we should have actually done the 'deed' in November 1995 when the BBC cameras were there for the Canvey Island cup replay, a day after Liam Brady was forced out.

Although then again whether 5 months sooner in the civil war would have made any difference is open to debate?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Bang on BOF

I am not sure you were an 'impressionable 15 year old' in those days, however much you would like to be.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

man utd fans.... THATS how to protest

 

[Harty]

I am not sure you were an 'impressionable 15 year old' in those days, however much you would like to be.

I wasn't, I was a 31 year old, helping to orchestrate, with others, a civil war via the pages of a fanzine and other more direct action, but with a wife and two kids at home, who to quote the words of the lovely Mrs H, "Couldn't see what all the fuss was about".

Just sitting here on a Friday I'm recalling one piece of direct action which resulted in a then club director supposedly getting a taxi at his house every 15 mins from 4.00am onwards on the pretext of the fact he was going to Japan via Heathrow. I wonder at what point the taxi firms of East Sussex got in touch with each other and realised it was all part of the 'war'?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I remember you well. Not personally though.

I trust you used the 1471 function.

 

[Dave the OAP]

millard:

"ladies and gentelmen...you are doing yourself no favours" "