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Goldstone ground memories
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Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
I've managed to narrow it down to 91 clubs. I don't think we were playing Brighton.
I was adding and subtracting those clubs that have come and gone. Also 'nigh on' in my book is akin to saying almost..so there clever pants!
butchy
Well-known member
the smell round the back of the south stand as you walked down newtown road, not quite sure what it was but its still there today
Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
Hadlee had an egg buttie before the home game against York in 77. He let one rip.
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
Primary data is fact
Walsall evening match maybe? A foul evening but 0-0 HT, 7-0 FT (Ward 4, Mellor 3)
steward 433
Back and better
Nope just rang my Dad and he said it was Man City in 80/81 season on a Saturday
Can't remember much of the match as i was 7 at the time
Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
Blimey didn't the other team get a coach out of the ground?
I thought if I put "fans" someone would say - "you are not fans, mindless hooligans & knuckle draggers"
You know the PC brigade who never do any wrong, apart from brown nose each other on here.
Perry Milkins
Just a quiet guy.
I know the culprits you are referring to. I won't tell them.
countrygull
Active member
Some matches I would get to the ground at 1.30 and rush to the front to get a space. Now, I time my run for 2.59!!
Albion v Pompey, mid eighties, midweek, wettest game I ever saw at the Goldstone, the pitch was like a lake. Should never have been played but the ref gave it the all clear and it ended up one of the funniest games I ever saw. Graham Roberts (ex Tottingham Cockspur)was playing for Pompey (lunatic in the mould of Stuart Pierce). Every tackle produced a flume of water that looked like they were water skiing. Albion won 2 - 1 I think, but I missed the second goal scored right at the end as I was having a piss. Stopped at the Royal George in Shoreham for a pint on the way home and asked a couple of blokes at the bar wearing blue and white scarfs "excuse me mate, who scored Albions winning goal"?, "Don't give a f*** pal, we're from Pompey". Oops !
jevs
Well-known member
The smell of pipe tobacco
Bovril from my old mans flask at half time
32,000 for the last game of the 76-77 season against Sheff wed to clinch promotion.
The inflatables of the late 80's (anyone remember that Man city fan with the huge inflatable lips in the same game as the ball "boy" headed the ball and then got sacked)
Guessing the crowd (of course there was never any tax fiddles going on there)
Wondering what match John Vinnicome (sp?) was going to be watching....it was never the same as most people at the ground.
Being able to stand up where i wanted at a football ground
Bovril from my old mans flask at half time
32,000 for the last game of the 76-77 season against Sheff wed to clinch promotion.
The inflatables of the late 80's (anyone remember that Man city fan with the huge inflatable lips in the same game as the ball "boy" headed the ball and then got sacked)
Guessing the crowd (of course there was never any tax fiddles going on there)
Wondering what match John Vinnicome (sp?) was going to be watching....it was never the same as most people at the ground.
Being able to stand up where i wanted at a football ground
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
Not getting into the ground when we played Pompey in the FA Cup 3rd Round in the early 90's, despite arriving by 2pm, stood on a wall on the other side of the road behind the North West corner...saw Matt Edwards leap like a salmon to score with a header, that turned out to be a winner, passed this on gleefully to all the Pompey fans stood in the road. Wandered back to my car, it had been ticketed for obstruction as one wheel was parked on the kerb...we had abandoned it somewhat in our haste to get to the ground...bad day out, fantastic result.
Peter Grummit
Well-known member
Random memories...Guessing the crowd from how far the cars were parked back along Hove Park.
Buying advance tickets for big games from the old house at the northeast corner.
Queueing up waiting for the turnstiles to open (130?) on the East Terrace for big matches.
Qing for Cup Final replay tickets all round the ground.
Sully's attempt at the Nathan Jones shuffle.
Nobby smashing in a penalty against Palace to send us 3-0 up on Boxing Day and the whole North Stand bouncing to "Jingle Bells..."
My eldest lad (age 3) being scared of the shouting lunatic his dad had turned into (1996 v Chester). Gerry Fell who ran like a racehorse. Tony Towner from Bevendean who looked younger than the year 5s at school.
Breaking in to the East Terrace against Mansfield.
PG
Buying advance tickets for big games from the old house at the northeast corner.
Queueing up waiting for the turnstiles to open (130?) on the East Terrace for big matches.
Qing for Cup Final replay tickets all round the ground.
Sully's attempt at the Nathan Jones shuffle.
Nobby smashing in a penalty against Palace to send us 3-0 up on Boxing Day and the whole North Stand bouncing to "Jingle Bells..."
My eldest lad (age 3) being scared of the shouting lunatic his dad had turned into (1996 v Chester). Gerry Fell who ran like a racehorse. Tony Towner from Bevendean who looked younger than the year 5s at school.
Breaking in to the East Terrace against Mansfield.
PG
Caveman
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- Jul 14, 2003
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The old smell of tobacco was something that sticks in my mind.
Walking from Hove station and down past the old church on the corner of the east terrace and past the away stand. Always look over to the North stand singing and bouncing up and down, never failed to get you up for a game.
Those were the days.
Walking from Hove station and down past the old church on the corner of the east terrace and past the away stand. Always look over to the North stand singing and bouncing up and down, never failed to get you up for a game.
Those were the days.
John Bumlick
Banned
the programme seller standing on the steps of the old church as you approached the south east corner and the bloke who used to sit behind us in the south stand and used to share his bag of sweets with us.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
We always used to guess the crowd from the first prize of the Goldstone Gamble. The first 2 digits of the 1st prize with decimal point in between them, doubled would give the crowd in thousands. I.E £550 would be an 11,000 crowd (or something like that anyway)
jevs
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Gulls eye