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First Brighton Away Game?



fosters headband

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Aug 15, 2003
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Brighton
Brentford 1957/58

Brentford's last game of the season and a win over us and they go top when only the top team was promoted and they win 1-0.
We had 1 home game left which was the historic 6-0 win over Watford to give us our first Football League promotion in our history.
I can never understand how Adrian Thorne is not on the legends wall at the Amex, he was a local lad and scored 5 goals in that promotion winning game.
 
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brentford 1957/58

brentford's last game of the season and a win over us and they go top when only the top team was promoted and they win 1-0.
We had 1 home game left which was the historic 6-0 win over watford to give us our first football league promotion in our history.
I can never understand how adrian thorne is not on legends wall at the amex, he was a local lad and scored 5 goals in that promotion winning game.

good shout:clap2:

WE NEED A NSC POLL ON THIS ONE.
 


The Truth

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FA cup 2nd round away to Middlesborough, 1906. 1-1.
 












FamilyGuy

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Jul 8, 2003
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Crawley
Away to Liverpool in the 1983 FA Cup run - we trounced them as I remember!
 




the wanderbus

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Charlton October 77 we lost 4-3, coincidently my youngest's first away game was also Charlton - the 4 -0 win 2010
 
















Mr H

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Mar 8, 2012
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LA
Saturday 20th February 1960
Preston North End 2-1 Brighton and Hove A
FA Cup 5th Round
Tom Finney No. 9 for Preston
His last season
 


smudge

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Jul 8, 2003
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On the ocean wave
Gillingham away, 75 I think, may have been earlier. Seagull Special. First time I saw the Bosun in action too.
 


Tony Meolas Loan Spell

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The Kelvin Morton 5 penalties at Selhurst Easter Monday 1989
 






Mr H

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2012
409
LA
Brentford 1957/58

Brentford's last game of the season and a win over us and they go top when only the top team was promoted and they win 1-0.
We had 1 home game left which was the historic 6-0 win over Watford to give us our first Football League promotion in our history.
I can never understand how Adrian Thorne is not on the legends wall at the Amex, he was a local lad and scored 5 goals in that promotion winning game.

Weird end to fixtures that season

April 19 BHA 1-1 Brentford
April 26 Watford 0-1 BHA
April 28 Brentford 1-0 BHA
April 30 BHA 6-0 Watford

1 BHA 46 24 12 10 88 64 13 6 4 52 30 11 6 6 36 34 60
2 Brentford 46 24 10 12 82 56 15 5 3 52 24 9 5 9 30 32 58
 


fosters headband

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Aug 15, 2003
5,165
Brighton
Weird end to fixtures that season

April 19 BHA 1-1 Brentford
April 26 Watford 0-1 BHA
April 28 Brentford 1-0 BHA
April 30 BHA 6-0 Watford

1 BHA 46 24 12 10 88 64 13 6 4 52 30 11 6 6 36 34 60
2 Brentford 46 24 10 12 82 56 15 5 3 52 24 9 5 9 30 32 58

I had forgotten how tight that end of season was and when we lost at Brentford we dropped to third place, with Brentford going top, Plymouth in second and us third, all on 58 points. Our game in hand we needed one point to win the only promotion place.

A little report I found about that great night

Our record home win against Watford of 6-0 at the Goldstone in April 1958 which clinched the last ever Division 3 South trophy.
We went into that game needing a point to win the clubs first ever Championship. Dave Sexton had picked up an injury the week before so 20 year-old local lad Adrian Thorne was picked for just the 7th time that season.
Thorne scored his first after 5 minutes, and just 4 minutes later he had a hat-trick and the Albion were 3-0 up in front of a League record crowd of 31,038 at the Goldstone.
Thorne scored 5 of the goals that evening, it was a 6.15 kick-off as there were no floodlights at the Goldstone then, and the Albion were duly promoted to Division 2 leaving behind them the new Divisions 3 & 4
 


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