[Albion] 50 years ago today.

[Seagull on the Hill]

Brighton 4 - 0 Southport
Anyone else remember this game?
Pat Saward had just been sacked, and after the match there was a demonstration outside the West Stand demanding the reinstatement of the popular former manager.
Little did we know that a few days later the football world would be astounded when Brian Clough was appointed as manager!

 

[Albion my Albion]

Brighton 4 - 0 Southport
Anyone else remember this game?
Pat Saward had just been sacked, and after the match there was a demonstration outside the West Stand demanding the reinstatement of the popular former manager.
Little did we know that a few days later the football world would be astounded when Brian Clough was appointed as manager!

I was feeling the same way about Chris Hughton until his Ghana 11 lost to the United States 4 - 0. Come on, Chris, that just can't happen!!!!!

 

[southstandandy]

Yes - remember it well. Although I never liked Clough and when I heard he was coming in was not as excited as many were.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I was 5. No is my answer

 

[Brovion]

Yes! Couldn't believe it though when Clough (and let's not forget Peter Taylor) were appointed. I did think it was a bit of a gimmick and I didn't think they'd stay, but I also realised that the club under Mike Bamber had ambition. I used to say that was a key moment; prior to that were the years BC ('Before Clough'), after that was the launch into what we used to call the 'Glory Years'. Although it must be said the birth pangs were sometimes a bit painful! (Walton and Hersham and Bristol Rovers spring to mind).

 

[HeaviestTed]

I was 5. No is my answer

-7 here, don’t think my parents had even met.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

I was 5. No is my answer

Bloody JCL!

 

[W3D]

Brighton 4 - 0 Southport
Anyone else remember this game?
Pat Saward had just been sacked, and after the match there was a demonstration outside the West Stand demanding the reinstatement of the popular former manager.
Little did we know that a few days later the football world would be astounded when Brian Clough was appointed as manager!

Don't remember it, but pretty sur I'd have been there

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I would have been in existence in some form, whatever a 2-3 week old foetus looks like

 

[Official Old Man]

Sort of. I was there, being a season ticket holder in the south stand and sitting on the benches that made up the seating. Would have been 17 and just discovering alchohol so those days were a bit blurred.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Sort of. I was there, being a season ticket holder in the south stand and sitting on the benches that made up the seating. Would have been 17 and just discovering alchohol so those days were a bit blurred.

17 and in with the old 'uns in the South Stand?
Was the North Stand too raucous for you?

 

[Official Old Man]

17 and in with the old 'uns in the South Stand?
Was the North Stand too raucous for you?

Purchased for me by my Uncle who was in the West Stand smoking his pipe.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Sort of. I was there, being a season ticket holder in the south stand and sitting on the benches that made up the seating. Would have been 17 and just discovering alchohol so those days were a bit blurred.

When my dad got ST's for us we were at the back of wooden benches so we could stand up to see. After a number of years it burnt down, suddenly just like that, for no apparent reason at all

 

[Lankyseagull]

Recommend reading Spencer Vignes book 'Bloody Southerners' for those interested in Clough & Taylor's time at the club.

 

[DavePage]

Brighton 4 - 0 Southport
Anyone else remember this game?
Pat Saward had just been sacked, and after the match there was a demonstration outside the West Stand demanding the reinstatement of the popular former manager.
Little did we know that a few days later the football world would be astounded when Brian Clough was appointed as manager!

I would have been there, not that I remember. I was match day staff back in those days

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Brighton 4 - 0 Southport
Anyone else remember this game?
Pat Saward had just been sacked, and after the match there was a demonstration outside the West Stand demanding the reinstatement of the popular former manager.
Little did we know that a few days later the football world would be astounded when Brian Clough was appointed as manager!

My first game was Clough's first game (York 0-0)

BTW, look where Southport are now

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I was on a 2-week school exchange to St Jean De Luz in the south of France where I didn’t get any UK news. On the way back I bought a British paper from a shop near Gare Du Nord and saw a picture of Clough in a deckchair. It was unbelievable. I really can’t think of an equivalent now as no football manager has his profile. He had recently been on Parkinson and you couldn’t move for would-be impressionists doing him. Mourinho leaving Chelsea a few years ago to manage Bristol Rovers would have been much less surprising.

 

[Brovion]

My first game was Clough's first game (York 0-0)

BTW, look where Southport are now

JCL!

Without looking it up there were about 5 or 6,000 of us there for the Southport game and about 16 or 17,000 for the visit of York! It wasn't all day-tripper and glory-hunters; as I'm sure you know attendances did fluctuate wildly in those days and crowds could easily double or halve depending on how the team were doing.

And as an aside look at where York are now as well

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

I was 11 coming up 12, remember Clough and would likely have been at the game

 

[BLOCK F]

I was on my honeymoon with my first wife.
Couldn’t believe the news. However, the initial excitement (not of my wife or honeymoon) soon wore off when we all discovered what a first class tosser he proved to be. At least Taylor had the decency to stay a bit longer. Clough just took the piss.