[Albion] Brighton firsts

[jackalbion]

I CBA to look it up, were we the first team to get an official apology from PGMOL because of a VAR cock up?

We were definitely the first one to get two in the same game

 

[jackalbion]

Sorry, misread it. But they did start serving beer when they said it would be dry!

I thought it was Non-Alcoholic beer?

 

[Arthur]

Saturday was the first time a Brighton team have scored from a corner EVER*












*I may be exaggerating slightly but it seems like that.

 

[Stato]

First goal of the millenium.

(Scored by Mari Wilson from the looks of it).

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

I thought it was Non-Alcoholic beer?

I thought it was too so didn’t bother. My Mrs swears they had the proper version in block 8 though.

 

[Stato]

First club to march in protest through the streets of the Capital:



(And first team to have a bloke up a tree in a park?)

First Fans United:

 

[el punal]

That was a revelation, wasn't it? Love the fact that the bar staff just said 'sod it' and started serving. Great fun, until the tear gas came in.

Um, that wasn’t the Ajax game more like AEK Athens.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

First and only team to score 3 own goals in a single FA Cup match?

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Ran this through Chat GPT. If you're worried about AI taking over the world. I wouldn't worry too much just yet. I'd worry more about people stating what it says as fact. Talk about confidently incorrect.


1. First team to score three own goals in one FA Cup match
• Date: 19 February 2012
• Details: Liam Bridcutt (twice), Lewis Dunk (once) against Liverpool in a 6–1 defeat.


2. First English league club to install safe standing rails in a Premier League stadium
• Date: Summer 2022
• Details: Brighton became the first Premier League club to install rail seating (safe standing) at the Amex Stadium.


3. First top-flight club in England to have an openly gay male professional player
• Date: October 2021
• Details: Australian midfielder Josh Cavallo (though playing elsewhere) sparked openness discussions, and subsequently, Brighton became widely recognized for LGBTQ+ inclusivity, famously supporting events and campaigns.


4. First club to use goal-line technology in an official English match
• Date: August 2011
• Details: Brighton tested goal-line technology (Hawk-Eye) during a Sussex Senior Cup final against Eastbourne Borough, becoming the first English professional team to do so.


5. First professional club to have a match postponed due to a bomb scare involving their home stadium
• Date: 1985 (Goldstone Ground)
• Details: An anonymous bomb threat resulted in a match against Crystal Palace being postponed, an extremely rare event in English football.


6. First English professional team to have a match abandoned due to fog in the 21st century
• Date: December 2016
• Details: Championship match vs. Cardiff City abandoned after heavy fog prevented clear visibility.

 

[portlock seagull]

First club to march in protest through the streets of the Capital:



(And first team to have a bloke up a tree in a park?)

First Fans United:

Rally remember that, walking up Park Lane and stopping all the traffic there.

 

[studio150]

First team to get into Europe*






*Out of Brighton, Reading, Bournemouth and Crystal Palace

I'm sure one of the posters from up the road, will be on here soon, screaming Intertoto Cup. Although they lost 0-4 on aggregate so not much to shout about.

 

[chaileyjem]

We had the first match and first goal reviewed by VAR in the UK for the FA Cup tie v Palace in Jan 2018. Glenn Murray's late goal stood as it was ruled to have not hit his arm.

 

[Stato]

Rally remember that, walking up Park Lane and stopping all the traffic there.

The report says there were 500 of us. I would have estimated quite a bit more, but memory's a funny thing and I am quite old now.

 

[stewart12]

First club to release a track in the football rap genre, beating Liverpool by 5 years.

probably needs more bigging up at how GROUNDBREAKING this was. In terms of rap, Sugarhill Gang's "Rappers Delight"- seen by some as the first mainstream rap song, was released a mere 4 years earlier. Albums like "it takes a nation of millions to hold us back" by Public Enemy and "straight outta compton" by NWA were years away.

Was this the starting point of UK hip hop? of GRIME?

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

First club to have a ban on celery and have Slade playing before a game?

 

[portlock seagull]

The report says there were 500 of us. I would have estimated quite a bit more, but memory's a funny thing and I am quite old now.

No, there was. I remember over 1,000 at the time and it was reported as that too. Then off to Craven Cottage for the game. We met outside the Shakespeare pub at Victoria.

 

[Eeyore]

First goal of the millenium.

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(Scored by Mari Wilson from the looks of it).

That goal was just what I always wanted...

 

[WhingForPresident]

First club to employ a DJ as a player to boost morale.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I might be wrong - was very young at the time, but seem to remember it being discussed back then.... Were we the first team to play in the FA Cup final and get relegated in the same season?

Leicester did it before us in 1969.

 

[BNthree]

I thought it was Non-Alcoholic beer?

That's your excuse anyway