[Albion] Name a unique or random thing that has happened at this football club

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Getting a player in on a free transfer then selling him 3 weeks later for £125,000 without him playing a game for the club

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Packing up the club's main stand into lorries and sending it to the golf Open for its holidays every Summer

 

[portlock seagull]

First team to score this century

 

[zefarelly]

Stadium was renamed for one game after the name of an album by a DJ.

Didn't the flying lizards also perform money at half time once too ?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I see you're back, collecting lists, @Mustafa II

I am looking forward to the publication of 'The Ladybird book of lists' (you can use the pseudonym E.L. Wisty).

 

[zefarelly]

Nope - he was in the Hastings youth ranks at the time when he was 'poached'. Albion paid token compensation and the rest is history. John Gregory said if Dick Knight saw Barry run bollock naked past him on The Palace Pier he wouldn't recognise him. Villa paid up though etc.

A timely reminder, John Gregory is a twat

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We had to play a home game against Brentford at their Griffin Park because pot holes had begun to appear on the Withdean pitch.

Which means that I have watched us play home matches in five different stadia.

 

[Bodian]

But how many clubs have played in similar games at both ends of the football league spectrum? Hereford in ‘97 to avoid relegation from the FL, and Middlesbrough in 2016 for promotion to the PL.

Even more pertinently v Notts County at Wembley play-off 1991 (as after losing to Boro, we did have a second chance in the play-offs). And crazy when you put the dates together, and how quickly we fell.

 

[abc]

Turning up for the first game of the season vs Wolves at the goldstone and finding the north stand roof had gone

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The night match at Rochdale has to take some beating. Real people and real fan's.

Real fan's what?

Think you're mixing that up. Gary Hart signed for £1000 and a set of tracksuits from Stansted, Gareth Barry signed as school boy then nicked by Villa which went to the FA.

and we only got £600K for him, not a million.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Two of our managers having the same name, Peter Taylor.

And two of our other managers were named Micky Adams.

 

[Heffle Gull]

Nope - he was in the Hastings youth ranks at the time when he was 'poached'. Albion paid token compensation and the rest is history. John Gregory said if Dick Knight saw Barry run bollock naked past him on The Palace Pier he wouldn't recognise him. Villa paid up though etc.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

4, technically.

The Withdean pitch was so bad one year we played a ‘home’ game at Griffin Park.

You beat me to it

 

[portlock seagull]

Playing last game of season on a Thursday morning

 

[Guinness Boy]

An adult ballboy called Keith getting fired for heading the ball into the crowd.

 

[portlock seagull]

Unprecedented number of public enquiries into a sporting planning application.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Has any other club ever played their last game at an old ground and first game at a new ground against the same opposition? Probably only ever if the club moved into a new ground the next season and were in the same division. Certainly not so long apart.

 

[portlock seagull]

Only club where our rivalry keeps having to be explained every season because the dullards in the media and other PL fans are too stupid to retain the reasons.

 

[zefarelly]

And two of our other managers were named Micky Adams.

And Alan Mullery.

Whats the chances eh ;-)

 

[Comrade Sam]

Don't we have the record for league wins (8) in a month under Poyet at the Withdean?