[Albion] Oddest moments at a football ground

[Dick Swiveller]

Swindon fan strolling on the pitch, throwing his pile of protest leaflets up in the air and then strolling off again.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

 

[Skaville]

Pretty certain that was also the game when Devon White came running out the tunnel only to trip over some rope holding up an advertising hoarding on the pitch?

I thought it was the cable for the microphone used to announce the player of the season?

 

[PTC Gull]

Used to stand in the West with a mate, just in front of the press box where John Vinicombe and Tony Millard worked. In front of us used to be a couple of old guys who both wore glasses. One home game with Albion playing to the North, someone belted a clearance straight into the West and caught one of the old guys smack in the face. Went down like a sack of spuds. St Johns guys come in, treats him and uses a palaster to repair his glasses. Life goes on. Next game only one of them turns up the other waiting for for new glasses says his friend. Next game both turn up again, with one resplendent in new bins. 20 mins in and a fierce clearance comes our way and goes straight into the face of the one who had not been hit before. Cue sympathetic laughter and another plaster for a repair on the glasses.
After a check from SJA they both left at half time. We never saw them again.

 

[Albion my Albion]

When #5 and #3 and #9 hugged #7 after he scored a goal. It was generally an odd team.

 

[ac gull]

I went to a brighton game once and we scored a goal at home

 

[Seagull Baz]

Brighton v Chesterfield at old Chesterfield ground midweek in the lower divisions. Sat on railway sleepers for first half until the fans sang that we wanted moving out to the empty concrete standing terrace behind the goal. Stewards allowed us to move and we went on to win following a cracking goal from Chris Iwelumo on his debut. And to top it all, Michel Kuipers came out to stand with us for part of the time.

 

[marlowe]

https://youtu.be/APi-eh-PK6s

 

[Sirnormangall]

The scene: Shrewsbury away; fencing all around the perimeter of the pitch; home team awarded a penalty in front of BHA supporters; BHA supporter drops trousers and sits on perimeter fence mooning the penalty taker.

The outcome: Shrewsbury scored.

And the moral of this story is.........(I’ll leave that for others to decide)

 

[atfc village]

Scunthorpe 86 87 a total of 8 of us in the away end .10 minutes into the game the usual turn out of array of 20 year old plus bullies doing the usual tatics of giving hassle to us . Followed into the toilets by one said fool who ended up in the trough face down . I was only 16 at the time.love it.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Tis funny, as you get older you can remember things that happened eons ago, but you can't remember what you had for breakfast.......

When I was five I remember losing my tooth. This morning at breakfast I ate an old scone that was so hard it almost made me lose another tooth

 

[Juan Albion]

Can't think of a football one at the moment, so I'll share an ice hockey one. Went to an away game and at the end of the game I looked down to see I'd been standing close to half a deer's leg. Why the heck would there be half a deer's leg in a hockey arena? Never worked that one out. There wasn't even a barbecue handy.

 

[Blue3]

https://youtu.be/APi-eh-PK6s

I was there

 

[Icy Gull]

I wasn’t there but I remember being amused by the story of a burger van on fire (at Cheltenham?) and those vainly attempting to put the fire out were met with chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” from the travelling Albion fans looking on

 

[jevs]

Mervyn Day, Leeds keeper at the time, last game of the season at the Goldstone....he swings on the crossbar infront of the North Stand and gets his boots caught in the net

Keith Cuss....WTF....brilliant.

Same game (Man City) their fans were in the NE corner and at the time, it was the inflatable period. One Man City fan had a huge pair of blow up lips....one of the funniest things ive seen at football. Every time he moved, it looked like this huge lips were laughing. The whole north stand were in fits.

 

[ac gull]

Yep was at the burger van fire game - strangest thing was none of the locals seemed remotely bothered as if an everyday occurrence

 

[maltaseagull]

Seemed the best thread to post this rather than start a new one.

In the queue for the Brighton train yesterday a group on Newcastle fans in their 20s none of whom had a Geordie accent (More Chelsea) pushed in and their "leader" kept chanting "I like Dick and Fanny"
This is clearly hilarious as they were giggling like 5 year olds.
It also seems to get funnier with repetition.

Can someone explain the joke? Cos I just didn't get it

 

[Return of the Rev]

A bit strange early 80's at Oldham, managed to climb a ladder in the gents from the terrace into the main stand, 15 of us transferred ourselves into the home seats!

 

[Flagship]

At Withdean they had covered parts of the pitch with tarpaulin during a wet spell. It was rolled up along the touchline for the game. The weather was awful, heavy rain and cold. Big puddles of water were collecting in the terpaulin. The opposition were chasing the game and the ball went out for a throw. A ball boy picked up the ball and a player came over to touchline to take the throw and gestured to the ball boy to give him the ball. Tbe ball boy hesitated for a second or two, then slammed the ball into a puddle in the tarpaulin totally drenching the playet. Everyone had a good laugh except the player, who was a sodden wet and a bit miffed.

 

[Nottseagull]

The 'celery fight' between Albion fans at Gigg Lane. The stewards were so bemused they just let them get on with it! When we left, I remember seeing those wooden terraces strewn with squashed vegetation.

A lot of the home support also changed ends at halftime, walking round to the end Watford were kicking into. I also saw that at Aldershot, I think, although I can't be sure it was there.

In the mid 1970s you could walk from one end of the short grandstand at Aldershot to the other, via the rest of the ground.