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Longest half hour in the Albion's history
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I was at my in laws watching the goal updates on Ceefax, and counting the minutes down to the final whistle. My father in law was watching with me as he knew how much it meant to me.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
I remember sitting in the stand (I was up by the halfway line) at half time feeling utterly bereft. Everyone around me was subdued and it felt like it lasted hours. Once we'd equalised, I don't think we stopped singing and bouncing up and down. Totally exhausted by the end. On our way back to Worthing, we stopped (somewhere) for a beer and food and people here and there who saw our Albion shirts were saying well done and clapping us on the back. But my god, we were woeful then. How times change
I was up in the seats as well. In fact in one of the pictures in the book "Build a Bonfire" I can spot me and my mates. All I remember at the end is sitting back in my seat in utter exhaustion with "something in my eye"
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Must have been the longest half hour in Kerry Mayo's LIFE...
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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That game was tense tense tense. I've never celebrated a goal as much as I did Reinelt's that day(although Storer's the week before was pretty close). The last 30 minutes seemed to go slower than the preceding two years of disaster and anarchy.
Did anyone go to the cup game the following season? There was a lot less in the stand than there were a few months previously. Probably a good thing we lost too.
Did anyone go to the cup game the following season? There was a lot less in the stand than there were a few months previously. Probably a good thing we lost too.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
What If?
Had we gone down it was expected that the club would have closed. Who was around locally who might have formed a new club, a Brighton City FC?
With nowhere to play would they have built a new stadium on Waterhall?
And, like Wimbledon, how far back up the league would we have got?
Had we gone down it was expected that the club would have closed. Who was around locally who might have formed a new club, a Brighton City FC?
With nowhere to play would they have built a new stadium on Waterhall?
And, like Wimbledon, how far back up the league would we have got?
- Apr 5, 2014
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Ah yes, I meant since. If we are talking previous visits you can add Northampton Town.
albionfan37
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Even watching knowing the result I still just found myself chewing on my nails and a knot in the bottom of me belly I must've smoked 40 odd fags during the game listening on the radio round me mates house
Return of the Rev
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studio150
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I remember sitting in the stand (I was up by the halfway line) at half time feeling utterly bereft. Everyone around me was subdued and it felt like it lasted hours. Once we'd equalised, I don't think we stopped singing and bouncing up and down. Totally exhausted by the end. On our way back to Worthing, we stopped (somewhere) for a beer and food and people here and there who saw our Albion shirts were saying well done and clapping us on the back. But my god, we were woeful then. How times change
Almost the same, but on the terrace. I have never experienced such a change in mood within an hour. At half time it was looking as if out of the league and possibly no future. It felt like a loved one had just passed away. On the final whistle sheer joy, with tears of happiness. After leaving the ground I recall passing a few Hereford fans who were sitting on the ground just distraught and looking and feeling how I did at half time.
Fortunately we had the joy at the end of the game. I was walking on cloud 9 for the next week
Behind Enemy Lines
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I was there but never want to go through anything like that ever again. It wasn't the greatest game ( The Observer described it as the worst game of football ever) but by far the most important in the club's history. So whilst I remember, theres no need to watch again. I'm much happier now watching Mr Knockaert and his box of dazzling tricks.
Bob!
Coffee Buyer
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,630
As I recall Sky wanted to move it to the Sunday to show it, but we refused.
The Birdman
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I still got a headache not sure what happened got back Sunday I think.
AnotherArch
Northern Exile
Next year it will be 20 years since that day - nearly 1000 games ago. But it still seems like yesterday. The memory is not so much of the football but the feeling, the emotion at the time. After the game I did not rejoice too much, I was just numb. Mind you, some of the scenes outside the ground were even like 20 years before that day!
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
I remember buying tickets direct from Hereford as the Albion weren't selling them , bought them as I honestly thought it was a relegation out of the league party and who better to sit next to and share it with than GUPPY ?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
There's a strange stat where Kerry Mayo scored three own goals in his career. The Albion didn't lose any of those three games.
I know the last one was at Bramhall Lane when McCammon scored, but can't remember the middle one.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
- 29,319
No I mean it's faulty and inaudible...? Could just be my phone and that vid...
Seagullroyal
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- Dec 31, 2014
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We forget how easy it is nowadays to follow football matches if you aren't there, with smart phones, etc, finding out the instant anything happens.
Back in those days, everything was different.
I was up in Lincolnshire for a family do that weekend.
To take my mind off it, I decided to go and watch Boston United and listen to radio five for updates. Sat in the stand, the first problem was that there was a rugby league cup final being commentated on, which cut down the amount of football reports, and when they did, it was the higher divisions.
However, when they reported the equaliser, I jumped up and shouted 'YES!'
I did get a few funny looks, as nothing had happened in the game I was at!!
Back in those days, everything was different.
I was up in Lincolnshire for a family do that weekend.
To take my mind off it, I decided to go and watch Boston United and listen to radio five for updates. Sat in the stand, the first problem was that there was a rugby league cup final being commentated on, which cut down the amount of football reports, and when they did, it was the higher divisions.
However, when they reported the equaliser, I jumped up and shouted 'YES!'
I did get a few funny looks, as nothing had happened in the game I was at!!
I remember sitting on the terrace behind the goal smoking a fag and feeling sick at half time. I don't think I will ever feel as stressed again at a football match. I cant even bare to watch those highlights now. When you look at that and what we have been through it really is remarkable story.