First Ever Brighton Game

[turienzo's lovechild]

brentford at home...pretty sure it was the 94/95 season

it was 0-0 and a terrible game of football...can't believe i came back

 

[Premiership Dream]

Dec 1979 v Man City, 4-1 Victory, I was 9 too.
I was in the 'chicken run' as I'm sure it was referred to in the east stand.

my 1st game to...........and was brought a terry towelling bukta hoodie with seagulls written on the back which I lived in for the next 2 years

 

[Wilko 1901]

30th Sept. 1978

Albion 5 Preston North End 1

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Think it was Tranmere 1968...or Shrewsbury

 

[Justice]

Grimsby 1985 I think lost 1-0

 

[Barry from Eastenders]

Jan 1st 1986

Albion 2-0 Palace

If that doesn't get a 10 year old hooked for life, nothing will.

 

[fork me]

One of the London clubs at the Goldstone 79-80 season, I went with a friend and hid Dad. We lost and what I remember most of all is lots of fights.

I'm guessing it must have been Arsenal or Tottenham. It definitely wasn't Palace boxing day and Chelsea were down in League 2 that year. Looking at the dates of games that seasn it was probably the Tottenham game. However, I was a young child and was pretty much overwhelmed by it all. I enjoyed watching the fighting more than watching the football!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

my 1st game to...........and was brought a terry towelling bukta hoodie with seagulls written on the back which I lived in for the next 2 years

Where is it now?

 

[BuddyBoy]

Brighton v Port Vale, 1994. I was in the kids enclosure. Was passing with rain. Think we lost 3-1. Jimmy Case scored us a belter though and it was raining cats and dogs. Great memories.

 

[Betfair Bozo]

April 1979 v Bristol Rovers. 3-0.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Like "Return of the Rev" , home to Halifax Town 1970/71 . Alan Gilliver scored a hat trick in a 4-0 victory . I was smitten!

 

[footychick]

As far as I remember it was the play off final in 1991.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Beat Gibraltar 6-0 in pre-season friendly and i think Alex Dawson scored a hat-trick. However, i can find no record of this so maybe it was all a dream.

BHA V GIB 11
2.8.1969
6-0
Bell 1 Dawson 4 Gilliver 1

 

[Return of the Rev]

4 nov 1972 home to cardiff 2-2.

lively in the north that day

 

[Renns]

Some time around 1994/5. The first game I remember vividly (around my second/third game) was the 3-3 vs Leyton orient when Scott Mcgleish made a gesture to the north stand

The Leyton Orient game was 4-4, I only know that as it was my first ever game! Cracking way to start my Albion watching career and the only time I visited the Goldstone too.

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Hull City 31st of August 1999, a Tuesday night. We won 3-0.

 

[muzzledseagull]

Home game 1986 in the north @ goldstone, dont know against who just remember police coming into stand and cracking someone over the head with truncheon who was 2 yards away from me (must have been an away fan in there) blood everywhere...stewards then let me cousin and uncle out onto pitch till things calmed down..

 

[nwgull]

Jan 1st 1986

Albion 2-0 Palace

If that doesn't get a 10 year old hooked for life, nothing will.

Mine too! Sat in the south stand with my dad.

 

[Dave the OAP]

first game i ever saw was highlands park vs durban spurs in 1966. The first albion game i saw was WB Albion vs Huddersfield in 1971

first brighton game was home against palace 1-0 in august 1974 ish. we had moved here and my dad worked in crawley and one of the criteria for where we would live was 25 miles from the office, and for there to be a football club near by....but for someone letting us down at the last minute, we were moving nearer london and Palace would have been my closest club and I would have gone there instead.

 

[Mr Blobby]

13.9.1975 beat Chester 6-0.

I was only 6 at the time, but that got me hooked. I expect I looked up to the bigger boys like Return of the Rev and wished I could be like them! Some things never change!