Can you identify this Albion goal in the snow...?

[Goldstone Rapper]

Thanks, Tim!

I looked up Hull's kit here Hull City - Historical Football Kits and it seems we did play Hull in January 1985 in the FA Cup. January snow? Could this be the match?

 

[Ernest]

It was Hull City in the Cup 3rd round January 1985

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

It was Hull City in the Cup 3rd round January 1985

And it's down as Chris Hutchings who got our winner that day. So it must be! I'll add the details onto the YouTube clip now. Thanks to everyone who suggested and helped the process of elimination. :mexican:

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Er, is it only for me that at the top of the embedded Youtube clib it clearly states "Brighton v HULL 1985"?

Edit; Just read post above

 

[ExmouthExile]

Thanks for posting these, I was at both the Hull and the Peterborough replay, I can remember the snow on the pitch for the Hull game

 

[ExmouthExile]

......love the crowd surges in the north stand....ahhh the good old days!!

 

[Spearritt of the Albion]

If you look behind the goal on the clip there is an advert for Townsend Thoresen...which probably dates it as no later than about 1988 as I am pretty sure they ceased to exist not long after the Herald of Free Enterprise sank...which was early 87.

The more I look at this clip the more I think the game was probably in early-87, I lived in London at that time and can remember a really cold winter with loads of snow...so, if anyone has their old programmes to hand they can probably work out who the best candidate is for our opponents.

Going back to this quote, the Townsend Thoresen advertising boards were all around the ground. (Ferry Ferry Nice and others). This is because Keith Wickenden, the Chairman of Townsend Thoresen, MP, and BHA Director, put vast amounts of money into the club. It can be no coincidence that, after having been killed when his light aircraft crashed near Shoreham Airport in 1983, we never really recovered and soon the club were in debt. Mike Bamber was soon ousted. From this point in our history the club never appeared to have Directors that could pump much money into the team and it led to the fateful appointment of our DIY friends. I guess that Townsend Thoresen were committed to some kind of sponsorship past the death of Keith Wickenden but they never became shirt sponsors.

Totally unrelated to this thread, I know, but a point that is not often talked about.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Going back to this quote, the Townsend Thoresen advertising boards were all around the ground. (Ferry Ferry Nice and others). This is because Keith Wickenden, the Chairman of Townsend Thoresen, MP, and BHA Director, put vast amounts of money into the club. It can be no coincidence that, after having been killed when his light aircraft crashed near Shoreham Airport in 1983, we never really recovered and soon the club were in debt. Mike Bamber was soon ousted. From this point in our history the club never appeared to have Directors that could pump much money into the team and it led to the fateful appointment of our DIY friends. I guess that Townsend Thoresen were committed to some kind of sponsorship past the death of Keith Wickenden but they never became shirt sponsors.

Totally unrelated to this thread, I know, but a point that is not often talked about.

Still, at least the Goldstone Ground was able to host the prestigious Townsend Thoresen Cup

 

[Barry Izbak]

......love the crowd surges in the north stand....ahhh the good old days!!

That was the best bit for me. Couldn't help thinking of the many many NSCers who would not have experienced that. What a difference between Withdean and that heaving North Stand.

I wonder how many that stand held in the days when we got 30,000 gates? It could easily be the entire 5000 who go to Withdean now.

 

[ExmouthExile]

That was the best bit for me. Couldn't help thinking of the many many NSCers who would not have experienced that. What a difference between Withdean and that heaving North Stand.

Sadly we won't see any crowd surging like that at any British football ground ever again due to safety reasons, it was fun though, and I'm glad that I got to experience being a part of that in the 6 years that I was a regular at most games at the Goldstone in the 80's.

I think there was about 19,000 at that Peterborough replay, up until that point, the biggest crowd I'd been in at the Goldstone (unless Liverpool in the FA Cup '84 was more?) I would have loved to have seen a 30,000+ crowd there, but by the time I started going, I think the capacity was 28,800. The biggest crowd I ever saw there was 26,500 against Arsenal in the cup. I'm surprised I still have all these figures in my head after 25 years!

 

[BensGrandad]

Going back to this quote, the Townsend Thoresen advertising boards were all around the ground. (Ferry Ferry Nice and others). This is because Keith Wickenden, the Chairman of Townsend Thoresen, MP, and BHA Director, put vast amounts of money into the club. It can be no coincidence that, after having been killed when his light aircraft crashed near Shoreham Airport in 1983, we never really recovered and soon the club were in debt. Mike Bamber was soon ousted. From this point in our history the club never appeared to have Directors that could pump much money into the team and it led to the fateful appointment of our DIY friends. I guess that Townsend Thoresen were committed to some kind of sponsorship past the death of Keith Wickenden but they never became shirt sponsors.

Totally unrelated to this thread, I know, but a point that is not often talked about.

It has always been said that Keith Wickenden was a very steadying influence on Mike Bamber and the rest of the board and his death was a sad loss to the club.

 

[LABHA]

Can i indentify the Albion goal in the snow? How easy is that,
its the South stand goal

 

[Helter]

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Any ideas?

Have you got or know the where abouts of the Peterbororugh game away in 86?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Oi Rapper seen this.BRIGHTON V MANCHESTER UNITED TOWNSEND THORESEN CUP RARE on eBay (end time 07-Feb-10 00:53:08 GMT)

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Oi Rapper seen this.BRIGHTON V MANCHESTER UNITED TOWNSEND THORESEN CUP RARE on eBay (end time 07-Feb-10 00:53:08 GMT)

I got it at the recent Albion fair at Withdean - and much cheaper than £7.99!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Have you got or know the where abouts of the Peterbororugh game away in 86?

I haven't got it, but I will try to track it down. I've often heard this game mentioned on NSC. What made it particularly memorable apart from the snow and seeing Albion in red shirts?

 

[IKDRF]

It is the F A Cup Third Round tie against Hull in 1985. I stood on the East Terrace that day. The weather was quite sunny after the snow we'd had. We lost in the Fourth Round at Barnsley. The goalscorer looks like number 2? Our right back that year was Kieran O'Regan but I dont remember him ever scoring!!

I think Alan Biley scored the goal in the Peterborough game. They were near the bottom of the fouth division but having already knocked out Carlisle and Leeds were pretty focused.

I remember the game at London Road- it was freezing. We took 5000 fans and nearly lost when they had a goal which bounced over Moseley making it 2-1 to them. I think Saunders got the equaliser but im not sure

 

[Deleted User X18H]

It is the F A Cup Third Round tie against Hull in 1985. I stood on the East Terrace that day. The weather was quite sunny after the snow we'd had. We lost in the Fourth Round at Barnsley. The goalscorer looks like number 2? Our right back that year was Kieran O'Regan but I dont remember him ever scoring!!

I think Alan Biley scored the goal in the Peterborough game. They were near the bottom of the fouth division but having already knocked out Carlisle and Leeds were pretty focused.

I remember the game at London Road- it was freezing. We took 5000 fans and nearly lost when they had a goal which bounced over Moseley making it 2-1 to them. I think Saunders got the equaliser but im not sure

Digweed

 

[The Large One]

It is the F A Cup Third Round tie against Hull in 1985. I stood on the East Terrace that day. The weather was quite sunny after the snow we'd had. We lost in the Fourth Round at Barnsley. The goalscorer looks like number 2? Our right back that year was Kieran O'Regan but I dont remember him ever scoring!!

I think Alan Biley scored the goal in the Peterborough game. They were near the bottom of the fouth division but having already knocked out Carlisle and Leeds were pretty focused.

I remember the game at London Road- it was freezing. We took 5000 fans and nearly lost when they had a goal which bounced over Moseley making it 2-1 to them. I think Saunders got the equaliser but im not sure

Dean Saunders.

Team for the replay... Digweed, Hutchings, Pearce, Wilson, Young, O'Reilly, Jacobs, Penney, Saunders, Connor, Gatting. Sub: Biley

 

[ExmouthExile]

I haven't got it, but I will try to track it down. I've often heard this game mentioned on NSC. What made it particularly memorable apart from the snow and seeing Albion in red shirts?

I've got the goals on VHS, along with loads of other Albion highlights from the 80's and early 90's, but the tapes have been sitting in my sisters garage for the last 2 years and I have no idea what condition they are in, I also don't have access to a VCR to check them out (plus I'm not sure what else is on them ) but Rapper, if I can dig them out, then you're welcome to them if you can convert them for your website?

As for the Peterborough game, it was memorable for me because it was the first away match I went to, and nearly the last! 6,000 of us shoehorned into that small away end.... I seriously thought I was gonna die. The crush was so bad I could actually feel my ribs bending inwards, and when we scored.... my feet didn't touch the ground for at least a minute!