[Albion] Ipswich Fans Brighton Memory Lane.

[Oh_aye]

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I remember going to the Goldstone ground, where the crowd was 8,000 and we probably had 1,000 of that. We have had to watch clubs like Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, be far more successful than

www.twtd.co.uk

A nice nostalgic thread (so far) from reasonable fans - knowledgeable of our journey / plight, from a good old club.

 

[Weststander]

Fair comments. And an insight into often shit, potless, times for us even before the land thief.

Thank fck for DK and TB.

 

[HangletonGull]

Seems like a well balanced thread makes a good change and some nice comments

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I don't log on here for everybody to be knowledgeable and reasonable.

 

[Silverhatch]

Wisdom (usually) comes with age. Any visitors who went to the Goldstone & Withdean and knew we spent 2 years playing in the Medway towns will ‘appreciate’ our journey. Most don’t!

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Aside from that banner, my main memory of Ipswich is watching them play about 5 up front on the last day of the season in a dead rubber for them at Withdean, while we needed point to stay up after all the other results that had turned against us in the space of about 10 mins after half time.

Horrendously tense but we stayed up. Good Times.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

This has to be right up there for Brighton memories against Ipswich.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

EastTownBlue remembering the first time we got permission for the Amex before the second enquiry, where Dick Knight gave everyone a plastic glass of bubbly (Cava rather than Champagne) at Withdean, to celebrate.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I remember being at Portman Road to celebrate our relegation and had a bleedin' gorilla jumping up and down in front of me the whole match so missed most of the action!! Are you that gorilla??

 

[Eeyore]

I remember being at Portman Road to celebrate our relegation and had a bleedin' gorilla jumping up and down in front of me the whole match so missed most of the action!! Are you that gorilla??

That's Gerald. He was a wild gorilla. Well, actually he was livid when Albion went down.

 

[nickbrighton]

That's Gerald. He was a wild gorilla. Well, actually he was livid when Albion went down.

now that is a blast from the past- a fair few will be Whoooooshed

 

[Baldseagull]

That's Gerald. He was a wild gorilla. Well, actually he was livid when Albion went down.

The rest of his Flange didn't give a shit.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fair comments. And an insight into often shit, potless, times for us even before the land thief.

Thank fck for DK and PB.

I'm 5 years older than you and I remember the shit potless time only too well. We were a middle div 3 side when I first went to the Goldstone in 69. Playing in front of quite decent crowds of 12,000 to 14,000. Alex Dawson, Willy Irvine.....but we had no money.

After a decent manager left us for Birmingham poor Pat Saward had to launch a public appeal for transfer funds. It was all very tin pot and shite.

No wonder that in 1970 when I was in year 2 at HGSB, all the boys rocked up in September with new school bags that were club branded - Chelsea, Leeds, Arsenal, Liverpool.....and these were lads that would watch the Albion. We NEVER discussed the Albion at school. Not then.

It was as if were were not a 'proper' club. Absolutely no chance of competing with the big boys. The idea was absurd.

And last season I went to Amsterdam to see us beat Ajax in the equivalent of the EUFA cup. The one that Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool played in when I was a boy.

Something in my eye.

 

[Weststander]

I'm 5 years older than you and I remember the shit potless time only too well. We were a middle div 3 side when I first went to the Goldstone in 69. Playing in front of quite decent crowds of 12,000 to 14,000. Alex Dawson, Willy Irvine.....but we had no money.

After a decent manager left us for Birmingham poor Pat Saward had to launch a public appeal for transfer funds. It was all very tin pot and shite.

No wonder that in 1970 when I was in year 2 at HGSB, all the boys rocked up in September with new school bags that were club branded - Chelsea, Leeds, Arsenal, Liverpool.....and these were lads that would watch the Albion. We NEVER discussed the Albion at school. Not then.

It was as if were were not a 'proper' club. Absolutely no chance of competing with the big boys. The idea was absurd.

And last season I went to Amsterdam to see us beat Ajax in the equivalent of the EUFA cup. The one that Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool played in when I was a boy.

Something in my eye.

I stand to be corrected by Albion experts, imho until TB, I always felt our only financially strong period was an all too brief ‘partnership’ of Bamber and Wickenden. Abruptly ended by the latter’s plane crash.

In our entire history, always operating hand to mouth, all too often selling loved players who went on to star elsewhere at not necessarily ‘bigger’ clubs.

It does help to appreciate what we have now.

 

[Eeyore]

The rest of his Flange didn't give a shit.

It's a whoop, Baldy, a whoop.

 

[el_ciddy]

Interesting read. Got reminded about the infamous bannergate game in another thread there, which I'd almost forgotten about. Looking back now was one of the funniest moments at a football game for me. Had swapped tickets from our usual seats in West Upper with mates in the North Stand for a change, that moment of bewilderment with the majority not understanding what it meant and then a collective f*** it like sigh, opposition banner must be talking shit? - "BOOOO!" Fun times.

 

[Oh_aye]

Interesting read. Got reminded about the infamous bannergate game in another thread there, which I'd almost forgotten about. Looking back now was one of the funniest moments at a football game for me. Had swapped tickets from our usual seats in West Upper with mates in the North Stand for a change, that moment of bewilderment with the majority not understanding what it meant and then a collective f*** it like sigh, opposition banner must be talking shit? - "BOOOO!" Fun times.

To be fair, it was mentioned on their fan site as well and the majority accept that pretty much any club living it up in the prem is on fairly thin ground when taking a moral high ground on corporate greed. Especially when it makes virtually no sense.

 

[El Turi]

Aside from that banner, my main memory of Ipswich is watching them play about 5 up front on the last day of the season in a dead rubber for them at Withdean, while we needed point to stay up after all the other results that had turned against us in the space of about 10 mins after half time.

Horrendously tense but we stayed up. Good Times.

They needed to win to go up (if other results went there way). It was a great achievement staying up that season as we lost Currie and Cullip in January. Virgo was then sold in the summer meaning we were comfortably relegated the season after.

 

[Guinness Boy]

This has to be right up there for Brighton memories against Ipswich.

That is my favourite Brighton / Ipswich memory. It doesn't show the surge in the North Stand after Wilkins goal that 'forced' many of us on to the pitch (up to the half way line in some cases ).

There is a longer video of a lot of that game somewhere on youtube, or at least there was. The standard is dreadful. A totally different game to the beautiful football I'm expecting tomorrow between McKenna and Hurzeler.

 

[rippleman]

I remember being at Portman Road to celebrate our relegation and had a bleedin' gorilla jumping up and down in front of me the whole match so missed most of the action!! Are you that gorilla??

I remember that game. Hadn't they already won the league or been promoted and as you say, we were down. I remember us doing a conga and being very vocal that day. On the final whistle they all came charging across the pitch towards us and I was thinking "oh oh". Then they screeched to a halt and applauded us. Easy to do when you've won the league I know but it has stuck in my mind all these years.