Albion days you wish you could re live

[Arthur]

I didn't go to Charlton.

I did and Complete Badger is wrong. Don't get me wrong we played well up at Charlton and deserved to win but the result flattered us a little. Peterborough the result flattered them. People often come out with daft comments like "it could have been 8 or 9" that day it really could have. We missed a pen, hit the woodwork 3 times, Joe Lewis made 4 or 5 outstanding saves.

In the years I've been going I can't recall seeing a better team performance or a more one sided game.

Amazing day!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I did and Complete Badger is wrong. Don't get me wrong we played well up at Charlton and deserved to win but the result flattered us a little. Peterborough the result flattered them. People often come out with daft comments like "it could have been 8 or 9" that day it really could have. We missed a pen, hit the woodwork 3 times, Joe Lewis made 4 or 5 outstanding saves.

In the years I've been going I can't recall seeing a better team performance or a more one sided game.

Amazing day!

All that yes. Fabulous performance.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

For me, it would have to be Wembley 83. Standing outside the twin towers, in a daze, hardly daring to believe that my little team was just about to walk out in an FA Cup final. Knowing that the WHOLE NATION would be watching this one match. Praying the lads did themselves justice. Watching them come out the tunnel. Singing ' Abide with Me ' and going absolutely mental when Gordon Smith scored.
It all went so quickly and we were all left feeling disappointed and frustrated at the end, when we should have been proud of the boys.
I'd just like to slow those few hours down again. That extraordinary mix of pride, excitement and nervousness before the start. An era when the FA Cup final meant everything. It was still the showpiece of the game.
I've often thought what it would be like if we ever got there again. Very different is the answer. Sadly, it has been allowed to lose its prestige and prominence.
Just give me those few hours again and can I just be permitted to change the script ever so slightly and watch Gordon Smith's low drive scream past Gary Bailey and rip into the bottom corner.
Not much to ask is it?

 

[Frutos]

August 6th 2011

 

[Hove Seagull]

For me, it would have to be Wembley 83. Standing outside the twin towers, in a daze, hardly daring to believe that my little team was just about to walk out in an FA Cup final. Knowing that the WHOLE NATION would be watching this one match. Praying the lads did themselves justice. Watching them come out the tunnel. Singing ' Abide with Me ' and going absolutely mental when Gordon Smith scored.
It all went so quickly and we were all left feeling disappointed and frustrated at the end, when we should have been proud of the boys.
I'd just like to slow those few hours down again. That extraordinary mix of pride, excitement and nervousness before the start. An era when the FA Cup final meant everything. It was still the showpiece of the game.
I've often thought what it would be like if we ever got there again. Very different is the answer. Sadly, it has been allowed to lose its prestige and prominence.
Just give me those few hours again and can I just be permitted to change the script ever so slightly and watch Gordon Smith's low drive scream past Gary Bailey and rip into the bottom corner.
Not much to ask is it?

He couldn't miss a second time, surely!

 

[somerset]

The whole first season in Div 1... 1978/79...... we had good crowds, struggled football wise, but because the North stand still had the old school roof, the atmosphere was brilliant, completely out sung every team that turned up....

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Hereford away in 1997, Fans United and Albion Vs Mansfield at Withers. (I was ball-boy)

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Plymouth away in 2001 when we clinched promotion, and the realisation that we had finally turned the corner after 2 years at Gillingham and an indifferent 1st season at Withdean. Goals from Brooker and Zamora ( number 27 of the season and the sixth goal in six games ).

Plymouth 0-2 Brighton

Brighton confirmed their first promotion for 13 years with a win at Plymouth.
The visitors' goals came in the first 16 minutes with wideman Paul Brooker opening the scoring in the third minute.

Argyle failed to deal with Paul Watson's corner from the left and the ball dropped to Brooker on the edge of the area.

He fired in off the post for a Brighton outfit supported by almost 2,000 travelling fans.

Brighton extended their lead thanks to Bobby Zamora's 27th goal of the season and his sixth in six matches.

Gary Hart set up the strike with a run across the face of Plymouth's penalty area and Zamora hammered home from close range.



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Plymouth: Larrieu, Elliott, Wotton, Taylor, Beswetherick, Phillips, Adams, O'Sullivan, McGlinchey, McCarthy, Evans. Subs: Sheffield, Meaker, Evers, Guinan, Stonebridge.

Brighton: Kuipers, Watson, Cullip, Crosby, Mayo, Melton, Carpenter, Oatway, Brooker, Hart, Zamora. Subs: Rogers, Stant, Jones, Virgo, Thomas.

Referee: F Stretton (Nottingham)

 

[Seagull73]

Plymouth away in 2001 when we clinched promotion, and the realisation that we had finally turned the corner after 2 years at Gillingham and an indifferent 1st season at Withdean. Goals from Brooker and Zamora ( number 27 of the season and the sixth goal in six games ).

Plymouth 0-2 Brighton

Brighton confirmed their first promotion for 13 years with a win at Plymouth.
The visitors' goals came in the first 16 minutes with wideman Paul Brooker opening the scoring in the third minute.

Argyle failed to deal with Paul Watson's corner from the left and the ball dropped to Brooker on the edge of the area.

He fired in off the post for a Brighton outfit supported by almost 2,000 travelling fans.

Brighton extended their lead thanks to Bobby Zamora's 27th goal of the season and his sixth in six matches.

Gary Hart set up the strike with a run across the face of Plymouth's penalty area and Zamora hammered home from close range.



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Plymouth: Larrieu, Elliott, Wotton, Taylor, Beswetherick, Phillips, Adams, O'Sullivan, McGlinchey, McCarthy, Evans. Subs: Sheffield, Meaker, Evers, Guinan, Stonebridge.

Brighton: Kuipers, Watson, Cullip, Crosby, Mayo, Melton, Carpenter, Oatway, Brooker, Hart, Zamora. Subs: Rogers, Stant, Jones, Virgo, Thomas.

Referee: F Stretton (Nottingham)

I was at this game and was thoroughly pissed by the time we got there - I was ridiculously smashed by the time we got home!!

 

[grubbyhands]

5th May 1979 - promotion - driving back from Newcastle in an old mini.

Awesome convoy

Did you travel all the way up there with a lanky motor mechanic (me) and then drive all the way back, same day to Billingshurst?

 

[El Sid]

Did you travel all the way up there with a lanky motor mechanic (me) and then drive all the way back, same day to Billingshurst?

Me, bruvver, mum and dad - there and back in a day (Hove) - I did all the driving.

 

[Albion Robster]

Play-off Semi Final against Ipswich at The Goldstone in 1991.
Perry Digweed saves a penalty and then injury time Dean Wilkins steps up for a free kick...top corner...mass pitch invasion towards the Ipswich fans.
I have to admit I was one of those naughty ones on the pitch - I was only 11 at the time.

 

[clippedgull]

Highbury 83.

What a day!!

 

[pasty]

The 2-2 @ Anfield January 1991

1. No ever came back from 2-0 down at Anfield in those days
2. 5K odd Albion there
3. We got a penalty at Anfield - as rare as rocking horse shit for an away team
4. 2 goals in as many minutes
5. Johnny Crumplin (football genius) OWNED John Barnes

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I wouldn't pick anything before this season, just in case I got stuck back there, and I had to endure years at Withdean again.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Atilla reciting poetry from the back wall of the West Stand after the Hereford walk out amidst a cloud of 'Dutch style' orange smoke. The comedy value was immense.

 

[glasfryn]

so many great days and nights but the one that always stands out is
Albion 7 Walsal 0
soaked to the skin walking home to Fishersgate and still smiling the morning after with two mates who have gone.
great memories

 

[supaseagull]

August 6th 2011

Yep I go with that.

 

[n1 gull]

Highbury 83

 

[itszamora]

First game at the Amex. Just the most incredible day ever, topped off perfectly by Mr Buckley.