Goldstone Northstand memories.

[Seagull on the wing]

Crowd surges, it'll never be the same without them! I used to love standing towards the back of the North Stand and then ending up down near the front after a goal was scored with my feet hardly touching the ground! Happy days!

Yes,they were great.....unless you happened to be standing behind one of the barriers...then it was a big ouch!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

So many, working on the gates, the surges, the amazing game when we scored two in the last 5 to win the game.

Pompey

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Surely the Albion museum can only be complete with a North Stand loo? It was the ones in the east that didn't have a roof.

 

[Knocker15]

Starting right in the middle when you were 16 and slowly moving to the sides the older you got... and ending up sitting in the South!

a good ol cup of beef before kick off!

 

[Dan Aitch]

Graham Cross's winner against Ipswich in the League cup.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

"Ginger" rallying the support in the 60s.
Tottenham "fans", the stampede and near disaster.
Slade doing a promo in front of it.
Joe Corrigan's ar*e getting stuck between the goalposts.

 

[chez]

I remember a really loud rendition of "Get yer tits out for the lads" when Koo Stark was paraded around the pitch one half time.

As many have said though, so many memories. I stewarded the front of the North stand for a few games during the 90's although my usual gate was in front of the away supporters (Gate 28 I think it was)

 

[bobby baxter]

"Ginger" rallying the support in the 60s.
Tottenham "fans", the stampede and near disaster.
Slade doing a promo in front of it.
Joe Corrigan's ar*e getting stuck between the goalposts.

Aaah....Ginger, is he still around?

 

[daveinprague]

P C Beard.

Is a Massive TWUNT.

 

[Grassman]

Aaah....Ginger, is he still around?

The Tommy Cook Report - a Brighton fanzine from the mid 90s - had a kinda campaign to find him. It wasn't successful.

 

[Eastleigh Northstander]

The good things!

Laughing as the pissheads from the pub came staggering into the back of the stand singing Albion Albion Albion, with one minute to kick off

Everyone making an arch around the crash barriers before taking a penalty in front of the north, no one wanted to be the one smashed into it when the surge happened

Feeling like the May not be all that but it was our territory and being proud to stand there.

Seeing Bellotti run as fans sprinted toward him from the north. Hilarious!!

The Bad!

Ever giving some of our North stand to away supporters

Seeing an old guy get the shit kicked out of him by Chelsea head hunters on one such occasion and not being able to help

Leaving the stand for the last time and never going back

 

[gripper stebson]

a good ol cup of beef before kick off!

Knocker... you're on NSC!

Yep, a burning hot cup of brown liquid with an inch and a half of sludge at the bottom.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Real singing and jumping and clapping...we used to chant all the players names and players responded to us.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Hans is EVIL...We've got Stevie Stevie Stevie Penney on our wing....DEANO DEANO....He's big he's brown.. oops! At LEEDS Graham Graham Pierce....

 

[Return of the Rev]

real singing and jumping and clapping...we used to chant all the players names and players responded to us.

not allowed to that,its only for teenage ultra nigels apparently

 

[topbanana36]

Gary Nelson goal v Arsenal and the 10 minutes afterwards

Train home back to Littlehampton was pretty lively too So many good memories from the Goldstone