Now with BBC commentary! Liverpool v Brighton, FA Cup 1983.

[Goldstone Rapper]

I got hold of the commentary from BBC Radio Brighton to mix it in with the commentary-less video footage. Here is the result....

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Enjoy this famous win over the mighty Liverpool all over again! I wish I was there.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Thank you for that.
As mentioned on another thread recently, that was my greatest ever away day

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

What a day. Great to have that with the commentary. A very early start on a bus from the old Argus building was so worth it.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Deserves a knighthood for services to retro football footage.

Although you picked up the noise from local radio archives, is it the original TV feed.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

What a great day!

A fantastic win, when the seagull flew over us I knew we were going to do it.

And I had the best fish and chips EVER just round the corner from Anfield.

And it all came back to me again eight years later when my ex-wife used my trip to Liverpool as an evidence in my divorce papers of how terrible a husband I was!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Is she a Palace fan then?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Deserves a knighthood for services to retro football footage.

Although you picked up the noise from local radio archives, is it the original TV feed.

Glad you enjoyed the edit.

The video footage came from within liverpool fc and only uncovered in recent years, then somehow finding its way on YouTube. BBC and itv cameras were not at the match.

 

[Exmouth Seagull]

Great work!

Brings it all back, best away game ever.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

When the pen was given, I see we surround the ref in a sort of Chelsea stylee. had forgotten that.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

When the pen was given, I see we surround the ref in a sort of Chelsea stylee. had forgotten that.

Grealish the original Roy Keane.

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

Many, many thanks for doing this.

I saw all of the FA cup games that year, except Newcastle away and this one. I was working that day.

On the Friday I went over to the bookies and bet on us to win at 9/2. I went back to the office and told everyone, and was ridiculed. I listened to the match on my own in the office that day.

On Monday morning I bought every paper and just went in to work and laid out all the sports pages on my desk for my colleagues to see.

 

[Merseyside Seagull]

One of the best days in Albions history, we all travelled to Anfield that day never believing we'd actually win.

Anyone else go to Sherrys () a few weeks later to watch it repayed on a big screen?

 

[Austrian Gull]

Your oeuvre is the perfect antidote to the current gloom and doom of a relegation battle.

 

[Aspinal's Body Double]

I've remembered another thing about that day, which really puts it into perspective is that before that match Liverpool had not lost a cup match at Anfield for TEN Years (that included European competitions).

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

I have the tape of Radio Brighton's (I think it was pre-Radio Sussex days) full match commentary of that memorable game. You will not find one "err" mid-word or even mid-sentence. What a change from the stuff served up today on SCR. Tony (The Badger) Millard should give the current local commentator a few instructions on how to sound like a professional on radio, rather than the amateur we have to endure.

 

[Exmouth Seagull]

Anyone else go to Sherrys () a few weeks later to watch it repayed on a big screen?

Yep, me and a mate Jon Stafford went along.

We still 5th year schoolboys at the time but managed to get in. We missed the last train back to Haywards Heath, but there was a later train leaving that had Three Bridges as its first stop, we got on in case it stopped at HH for some reason, or anywhere nearby. Trouble was it actually went via Ford and took absolutely ages. We got off at Three Bridges in the middle of the night and walked as far as Balcombe (we both lived in Cuckfield) before he gave up and phoned his old-man, who was not impressed. We got home at dawn, my parents were alright about it and let me have the day off school, but JS's parents weren't quite as understanding and made him go in, despite having been up all night and having a stonking hangover. Those were the days.