[Albion] 40 years ago today

[origigull]

40 years ago Christmas Eve 1975 a group of BHA fans were in the pub The Bosun in West Street Brighton, trying to come up with ways of getting a chant going that would get everyone joining in. After a few beers and much discussion the name of SEAGULLS came about. Little did we realise the name of SEAGULLS would still be in use today and the nickname of our beloved club. The fans that the table were Lee Phillips (who shouted out the name SEAGULLS), Jeff Walls, Pete Warland, John Bayley, Kevin Bayley, Steve Smith and Derek Chapman.
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[Caveman]

Nice Barnets in that picture!

 

[AmexRuislip]

40 years ago Christmas Eve 1975 a group of BHA fans were in the pub The Bosun in West Street Brighton, trying to come up with ways of getting a chant going that would get everyone joining in. After a few beers and much discussion the name of SEAGULLS came about. Little did we realise the name of SEAGULLS would still be in use today and the nickname of our beloved club. The fans that the table were Lee Phillips (who shouted out the name SEAGULLS), Jeff Walls, Pete Warland, John Bayley, Kevin Bayley, Steve Smith and Derek Chapman.
I hope the attachment is readable.

One year later I watched my first Albion game......brilliant.
Any of these lads on NSC?

 

[origigull]

One year later I watched my first Albion game......brilliant.
Any of these lads on NSC?

well . . . me! and I'm sure Steve Smith pops on occasionally but I don't know his username.

 

[vegster]

I thought the Seagulls chant came about in '75 as a response to Palace's chant of Eagles?

 

[Return of the Rev]

 

[Caveman]

I thought the Seagulls chant came about in '75 as a response to Palace's chant of Eagles?

Isn't that pretty much what the article states?

 

[vegster]

Isn't that pretty much what the article states?

I thought it was a spontaneous response rather than put through a committee and auditions.

 

[symyjym]

Nice Barnets in that picture!

In those days if you went to a barber and asked for a fashionable haircut, you either got just a wash and blow dry or a perm.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Derek Chapman. You chaps do raise that's Derek Chapman current Albion director and stadium hero.

 

[BN9 BHA]

well . . . me! and I'm sure Steve Smith pops on occasionally but I don't know his username.

I know Smith is a common name but do you know where he lived in his teens?
Older than myself, but I remember an Albion fan called Steve Smith that lived in the road I grew up in , this was in Brighton.

 

[catfish]

I thought the Seagulls chant came about in '75 as a response to Palace's chant of Eagles?

I remember that night as if it was yesterday - it remains one of my favourite Albion matches. The memory of the Seagulls chant gathering momentum and reverberating
around the Goldstone for the first ever time still shivers my timbers.

 

[origigull]

I know Smith is a common name but do you know where he lived in his teens?
Older than myself, but I remember an Albion fan called Steve Smith that lived in the road I grew up in , this was in Brighton.

Mafeking Road, just off the Lewes Road, Brighton. He now lives in Newhaven.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Mafeking Road, just off the Lewes Road, Brighton. He now lives in Newhaven.

Thanks, that's him then.
His mum and my mum were friends and my sister was good friends with his sister.
Didn't really know Steve as I'm guessing he's 10 years older than me, I would have been at junior school when that photo was taken. But I remember him and his family as everyone seemed to know everyone in that road at the time.

 

[origigull]

I remember that night as if it was yesterday - it remains one of my favourite Albion matches. The memory of the Seagulls chant gathering momentum and reverberating
around the Goldstone for the first ever time still shivers my timbers.

The Seagull chant was sung at home matches prior to the Palarse match but this was the big one that had everybody around the ground singing (just as we hoped it would do). It made the club think 'what is this seagulls thing', as you said, the Seagull chant was verberating around the ground.

 

[Triggaaar]

40 years ago Christmas Eve 1975 a group of BHA fans were in the pub The Bosun in West Street Brighton, trying to come up with ways of getting a chant going that would get everyone joining in. After a few beers and much discussion the name of SEAGULLS came about.

Do you remember why Seagulls was chosen?

 

[origigull]

Do you remember why Seagulls was chosen?

It was one of the Eureka moments. It just sounded perfect, just a single chant that could go on and on and Brighton by the sea with seagulls all around and it would get up the noses of Palarse fans (If I remember right).

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

What was the club nickname before "the seagulls"?
Did it have one?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

What was the club nickname before "the seagulls"?
Did it have one?

Dolphins

 

[BN9 BHA]

What was the club nickname before "the seagulls"?
Did it have one?

And the Shrimps before that, it's all in the newspaper article in the opening post.