AV 25 coaches

[Marlton & Hove Albion]

Brilliant day out 2-2. Rammed into the away end. Frozen pitch, frozen fans and an orange ball. One of my favorite memories. We utterly smashed up Boro after the game to the extent that senior plod boarded our bus and suggested we were never again welcome. I remember everyone pissing up the coach on the way up at the police roadblock and the old bill thinking our coach had sprung a leak in the coolant system. A few of the Bevendean boys stripped a motorway service station on the way home. The poor cashier gripping the till as everything else was looted. Following football in the 80s. Almost a different planet.

 

[Justice]

Who's going to organise the pallets of bricks?

 

[Hastings gull]

Seem to recall the free trip was Charlton at the valley 3-0

Yes, you are right. thousands of albion fans there that day.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Brilliant day out 2-2. Rammed into the away end. Frozen pitch, frozen fans and an orange ball. One of my favorite memories. We utterly smashed up Boro after the game to the extent that senior plod boarded our bus and suggested we were never again welcome. I remember everyone pissing up the coach on the way up at the police roadblock and the old bill thinking our coach had sprung a leak in the coolant system. A few of the Bevendean boys stripped a motorway service station on the way home. The poor cashier gripping the till as everything else was looted. Following football in the 80s. Almost a different planet.

Travelled up in the back of a carpet fitters van with two more vans,recall Brighton fans charging each other outside the ground

 

[Bigtomfu]

1 coach for supporters, the other 24 are for transporting Steve Bruce's dinner.

You do know he's lost about 4 stone right?

 

[origigull]

Travelled up in the back of a carpet fitters van with two more vans,recall Brighton fans charging each other outside the ground

I think that the removal van that the Bosun used went as well.

 

[el punal]

Was that the game where the train broke down?

Double it - 2! League Cup tie at the City Ground in 1978.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I think we also got a screening of a game .....may have been the Forest game, I cant remember it was long long ago...
I cant remember the free train ticket, I think it was a free home game ticket....but as I said was long long ago

Yep, they put the Forest game on at Hove town hall for those who didn't make it because of the train breaking down.

Only problem for those of us who didn't live in a Brighton was that their was a train strike that day.

Some things never change.

 

[Eeyore]

28 coaches and one train (possibly even two) for our FA Cup fifth round tie at Peterborough in 1985/86. That's one of my favourite Albion memories, all of us chugging across the frozen wastes of Bedfordshire heading for a game that should never have been played due to the 16 feet of snow lying across the pitch. Slight exaggeration, but only slight.

Their second goal hit a clump of ice and deflected over our hapless 'keeper.

 

[indy3050]

I got the coach to the play off at the Amex against the massive and it was chaos, apparently they had bought about 15 more coaches than they had said they would with nowhere for them to park. Slightly off topic but hey ho.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I got the coach to the play off at the Amex against the massive and it was chaos, apparently they had bought about 15 more coaches than they had said they would with nowhere for them to park. Slightly off topic but hey ho.

They are used to extra coaches now as they have had to add more to cover the rail strikes. They use the extra space near the P&R bus stops as an overflow coach park.

 

[Jack Straw]

You do know he's lost about 4 stone right?

That's why it's only 24 coaches, rather than his usual 36!

 

[poidy]

I know it's sad,but when i was 14 and first started going to the Albion,i used to love counting the coaches,Leeds united had the most i can remember 22 coaches,although i am led to believe Manchester Utd once had 58 at the Goldstone..

I bet your wife had a blinding honeymoon.


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[Official Old Man]

So what is it about the Brighton fans that we do not use our very good Seagull Travel services, apart from the alcohol.
And going back, memories of the convoy of double decker buses to Wembley in '83. Ours got lost on the first trip and late on the second.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Another evening sat on the coach for 30+ mins with legs crossed - the price of success is paid in many different ways!!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Was that the game where the train broke down?

I went to that game, by coach, bunked off school.I was so grateful that train broke down, it was a right crush in the away pen as it was.

 

[Peter Grummit]

We took 50 coaches to Anfield for the Cup 5th round 1983.

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