getting Brighton results in far flung places

[Dez]

I left the country exactly 6 days ago feeling reasonably confident that we would clock up a substantial haul of points from our forthcoming games. Having received an extremely depressing text message at Dalas airport informing me of a crushing 4-0 defeat I boarded a plane for Salt Lake City feeling it could only get better. Imagine my misery on Saturday, when aboard a horse in the Utah mountains my phone vibrated to inform me that the Albion had gone down 1-0 at home to Stockport. To make things worse, I get back this morning to hear we have drawn Linclon away in the FA cup!

Out of interest, where is the strangest place any of you lot have received info on a Brighton result? Surely, horse treking across the mountains of Salt Lake takes some beating!

 

[Sam]

south of France for me mate

 

[Rambo]

I was in the middle of my wedding speech when I found out we had lost 1-0 to Barnsley!

 

[Kneon Light]

On safari in Kenya trying to find the score of Brighton vs Gillingham in the league cup

 

[watsongooal]

Will never forget, I was laying in bed in Colonmbo Sri Lanka, has it on the BBC worldwide news and they showed Bobbys goal against Bradford (the one where he ended up over the hoardings)

That was the only goal they showed for some reason of any match

 

[Sully's Moustache]

Back in 1979 I was on holiday in Israel and on a deserted beach west of Eilat on a Sunday. An arab trying to sell camel rides was able to tell me that Brighton had won the day before!

 

[Brixtaan]

losing to B'muff news received on a tropical beach near the equator (i'll keep namedropping) from a bloody Plymouth fan!

 

[Tooting Gull]

I was in Oz doing the year off thing in 1991, and got the result of the Millwall play-off semi-final first leg (4-1) in a backpackers in Airlie Beach about two days later. There was a Millwall fan, a classic of his genre, in the bunk above, who'd won about 100,000 in some lottery and had blown the lot in four months, he was well pissed off. Quite scary, in fact.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Quite boring but I was in Seville at a World Music conference last week, and I paid five euros for 30 minutes at the business centre to log in to NSC Chat Room for the first half of the Stockport game. What a waste of money. Asked for people to text me through the final score, but this was completely ignored!

I've also had results faxed to me in Bulgaria. It took about two hours for the fax to come through and when I then went out to eat afterwards there was no food left in any of the restaurants so I went hungry. You used to have to go out early in those days as food was in short supply.

I have also called the Goldstone just after the final whistle from a pay phone on a Philadelphia street.

 

[Guinness Boy]

By text message from my wife whilst pub crawling in a beaten up "tuk tuk" auto rickshaw in Bangalore, India probably tops it off for me.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

September 2000 - Sitting in a bar just outside Naples, surrounded by Napoli supporters who at the time were almost suicidal about the state of their team (and rightly so).

Goal updates by text message throughout the game - which eventually finished Albion 6 Torquay 2.

Marvellous scenes.

 

[Tooting Gull]

September 2000 - Sitting in a bar just outside Naples, surrounded by Napoli supporters who at the time were almost suicidal about the state of their team (and rightly so).

Goal updates by text message throughout the game - which eventually finished Albion 6 Torquay 2.

Marvellous scenes.

I remember that result vividly. I was in Paris to see England in a friendly in the evening and watched Sky Sports all afternoon in some cheesy 'English' pub. Last seen being told to shut it by other members of the party singing '6-2, and we're going up' (pretty much all night) in some night club full of baffled if extremely sultry mademoiselles.

 

[perth seagull]

I was on a ferry somewhere between Dieppe and Newhaven coming back from Paris when I picked up the paper and read that we drew 2-2 with Grimsby and had been relegated!

 

[Legend]

I was laying on a Beach in Mauritius last year when I heard (from a Spurs fan who had phoned home) that we had lost 1-0 to Watford.

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

The other way around for me, last season, when I had a Pompey fan come up to me while waiting for the boat tour round San Francisco bay wearing my stripes. I think we lost 4-2. Made him happy anway.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I was in a remote village in the mountains of Southern Spain when I was told by a group of Londonders that Mike Small had been sold to Spurs for 1.5m. I believed it for 2 weeks - bloody pikeys.

Funny how we did sell a striker to Spurs for 1.5m a few years later though