[Football] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal ***** Pre-match Thread ****

[perseus]

one of my earliest recollections - goldstone january 1959, cup tie vs bradford city. A frozen pitch with a thin coating of snow making just staying on your feet hazardous.. Bradford players shambled onto the pitch (south stand end) and to our amusement, began passing a lighted fag between one another with evident pleasure! The match kicked off? And while albion struggled to stay upright, the bradford players seemed to glide over the surface, sustained no doubt by the quick nicotine fix and went on to beat the "soft southerners" 2 - 0. The beauty of the cup as we witnessed yesterday, is it's unpredictability. So beware arsenal, you could be in for a shock. Uta for ever!!!!

Didn't you come across the Bradford Park Avenue Hooligan Army? He was six foot something and wide as a brick shithouse.

Not that Arsenal have ever lost to the Avenue: http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/head...d_park_avenue/index.shtml#gLQ1qKbK1SX8zFc6.97