Pretty pink fairy
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where's the fashion police when you need themI find that astonishing given your profile pic!
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DR
where's the fashion police when you need themI find that astonishing given your profile pic!
I find that astonishing given your profile pic!
... have stood/sat in every part of the goldstone and watched 90 minutes.
North stand
Chicken run
North East
East both parts
South stand
West terrace both stands
West stand seats
North West
Anyone remember buying a beer (I think) from the kiosk/hatch at the north end of the main West Stand?
... have stood/sat in every part of the goldstone and watched 90 minutes.
North stand
Chicken run
North East
East both parts
South stand
West terrace both stands
West stand seats
North West
That must be quite an old pic.
I went to my first game in 1962 and that isn't the West Stand that I saw then!
I've watched from every vantage point on all four sides at one time or another ... except the Lego Stand.
Before it was erected I frequently stood on the terrace where the Lego stand was eventually placed, yet once the stand was built I never had the desire to sit down in the same area.
How odd is that?
I also had the dubious pleasure of playing on the Goldstone pitch two or three times.
I played for Brighton Schoolboys, and in those days the team were allowed to play at the Goldstone for important cup matches.
You couldn't see it from the terracing, but the pitch had quite a slope on it towards the North East corner, and you certainly knew about it as a 14 and 15 year old kid playing on it.
Balls were much heavier in those days and when schoolboys took corners from the NE corner they frequently didn't even get as far as the penalty area!
Sadly, my overriding memory is of breaking my wrist at the Goldstone playing against South London Boys.
We lost that game 3-1 from memory, and were due to play them in a return match at Selhurst Park a couple of weeks later, but I couldn't play as I was still in plaster.
I was gutted, I really wanted to play at Selhurst.
That was in the days before we grew to hate each other of course!
All of them! But wasn't the Chicken Run the East Terrace ?
Yes and the Lego stand too!