Norwich 18 - 0 Brigton

[tubaman]

I'm not normally one for football facts but while sitting in a garage waiting area today I flicked through a book and saw a story about BHA. Evidently on Christmas day 1940 Brighton played Norwich. They travelled with only 5 players and made up the numbers with Norwich reserves and spectators. They lost 18 -0. Are there any stranger facts about BHA out there?

 

[Weretheweststand]

And they probably still tried to buy one of the 5 players we had after the game

 

[Kumquat]

And they probably still tried to buy one of the 5 players we had after the game

Maybe next time we play Norwich we should take 10 players and ask them for Elliott Bennett to make up the 11.

 

[Soul Finger]

Taken from Brighton & Hove Albion On This Day:

Wednesday 25th December 1940

With World War II raging football continued under the auspices of
the War South League and the team – all five of them, one senior
player, three juniors and (as a guest) Bolton’s Jimmy Ithell – travelled to
Carrow Road. After borrowing some Norwich juniors and servicemen
from the crowd, Albion let the Canaries flap to a rather unflattering
18 goals without reply!

 

[Storer 68]

My memory (whuich may well be rubbish) is that we then played the return fixture on the next day (or a few days later) and let in another 10

 

[Notters]

Isn't that where Andy Whing is now?

Whing Back To Brigton A Possibility - Coventry City FC - Coventry MAD

 

[Gritt23]

Are there any stranger facts about BHA out there?

We once sold Dean Saunders, and replaced him with Richard Tiltman. Doesn't get much stranger than that.

 

[Gritt23]

My memory (whuich may well be rubbish) is that we then played the return fixture on the next day (or a few days later) and let in another 10

I'm sure that we once played 2 games on Boxing Day. One in the morning, then all drove to the other ground and played the reverse fixture. Or was that a dream?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Imagine if they had had NSC in those days. Bozza's Grandad would have had a fit.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

We once sold Dean Saunders, and replaced him with Richard Tiltman. Doesn't get much stranger than that.

We got him on a free & sold him for a good profit, not strange at all

 

[Storer 68]

We got him on a free & sold him for a good profit, not strange at all

I think the replacing him with Richard Tiltman was "strange" if not bordering on mad!

£60,000 was NOT a good profit, even in 1984, on a player that later was involved in mulkti million pound deals

 

[withdeanwombat]

I believe Norwich have failed to keep a clean sheet since.