[Albion] Brighton firsts

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

First goal of the millenium.

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

Yesterday I decided what my best track of the day would be when it came up in the car. Thanks for reminding me

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The first side to score at Withdean and at the Amex. (Gary Hart scored both first goals)

 

[Berty23]

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

That was amazing. I watched in a pub in Warwick with two Liverpool supporting pals. The whole pub ended up mocking me. Not relevant but we were drawn out of the hat for that tie by my next door neighbour.

 

[Brovion]

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?

No. I remember Leicester City did in in about 1968/69. (Lost to Man City in the FA Cup).

EDIT: Beaten by the Guinness Lad.

 

[mile oak]

never knows another club have an ice cream van inside the stadium (Withdean)

 

[fork me]

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?

...and only a few months after Wham! Rap.

 

[Jeremiah]

We must be the first club to have a penalty awarded against us AFTER the final whistle !!!!!

 

[fly high]

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?

No Leicester did it long before us.

 

[fly high]

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.

The Cardiff match never started, was postponed before many of us even got there.

 

[Comrade Sam]

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:

I'd never seen that clip. After the march and game I went to the Catfish Club and met Mrs Comrade Sam for the first time. With a name like that she had to be the one.

 

[slartibartfast]

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?

Not even close - Leicester City 1969, (from my childhood) , and Man City 1926 are another two to go down in the same year as reaching the FA Cup Final.

 

[Happy Exile]

I think the first football club (in the UK at least) to have defibrillation on site.

 

[mile oak]

1st to have a CEO chase out of the ground, Directors box?

 

[Jeremiah]

1st to have a CEO chase out of the ground, Directors box?

Pompey Fred trying to hide his delight at our demise.

 

[Happy Exile]

First Premier League club to have a permanent manager under 32 years old

 

[Van Cleef]

We were the first team after Leicester to lose an FA cup final and get relegated in the same season.

 

[Curryisgreat]

Can’t be arsed to look it up, but weren’t we the first club to play 7 consecutive games on different days of the week in approx 2011?

 

[Bodian]

Were we the first club to stay in the football league whilst sending our opponents on the day out of the football league?

 

[Bodian]

We were the first ever team to win at Anfield on a Sunday. Yes - even before Liverpool did.

 

[Anger]

First club to sack De Zerbi.
[checks Wikipedia]

No, that would be Palermo. As you were everyone.