One For The Crusties

[el punal]

Can anyone confirm/correct or add to the following info. :

Back in Jan.1967 the Albion were drawn to play Chelsea in the 4th round of the FA Cup. If memory serves me right the game was going to be all ticket.

Available tickets were sold at an Albion reserve game ( against Barrow, I think) along with admission price for this game - very naughty by the club!

It transpired that the attendance for that reserve game was 20,000+ !! Although the vast majority paid the entrance fee, bought their cup ticket and then buggered off. Glory hunters!

I stayed and watched the match (smug sod!) but can't remember the score. Anyway we played Chelsea, drew 1-1 in front of 35,000, and lost the replay 4-0 at Stamford Bridge before 54,000.

Now that's when the Cup did matter.

 

[smiler]

Brighton were playing Peterboro away that day and you could get your Chelsea ticket before the match behind the main stand at Peterboro

 

[mune ni kamome]

Off the top of my head I thought the reserve game was Notts County. I went to the replay with my uncle. Jim Oliver up front for us. Tony Hateley for chelsea.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Wouldn't imagine we would have played Barrow in a reserve game.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Barrow was a league game where tickets were sold for the Wolves LC game and the gate was over 20k

A few years later, before the Derby LC game, tickets went onsale v Charlton Reserves, with a gate of over 18k.

I actually think it's a fair and legitimate way of selling big match tickets as regular fans would have attended (1st team) games anyway and why not make the glory hunters pay more with an extra match?

 

[Kumquat]

Barrow was a league game where tickets were sold for the Wolves LC game and the gate was over 20k

A few years later, before the Derby LC game, tickets went onsale v Charlton Reserves, with a gate of over 18k.

I actually think it's a fair and legitimate way of selling big match tickets as regular fans would have attended (1st team) games anyway and why not make the glory hunters pay more with an extra match?

That was my thought exactly about selling tickets. A great thread this too. We live in a different world now and are seeing clubs having to adaptbut for me its always been about getting the kids in. What comes across is we were as imaginative then as we are now. Great to see us learning from the past.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Off the top of my head I thought the reserve game was Notts County. I went to the replay with my uncle. Jim Oliver up front for us. Tony Hateley for chelsea.

Correct (Notts County) the gate was 22,256 which we won 1-0 (Croney)

another decent gate for the 3rd round replay with Aldershot 29,261

We played Leton Orient away 3 days after that bumber gate of 54,852 at stamford bridge,in front of 5,437 bit of a come down

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Can't remember the details but I was at both the matches - the home game against Chelsea and the reserves match at which the tickets were sold. I was 13, in the South stand with my brother, and I was getting so excited he was afraid i was going to kick someone - not in a violent way, but just "going through the motions" of what was going on on the pitch.

One thing that sticks in my mind was the Chelsea song, to the tune of a well known song which I can hear in my head but can't remember the title

Ay, Ay ay ay,
Bonetti is better than Yashin,
Hollins is better than Eusebio
And Brighton are in for a thrashing.

 

[The Oldman]

Lived in West London then and q'd at Stamford Bridge for tickets for the match at the Goldstone. Us "Chelsea" were tucked into the SE corner. Always remember Archie Macaulay ordering the Chelsea Players off the pitch before the game started. Met my Dad afterwards for a drink as he was in the NW terrrace . Sadly he died 2 weeks later. Poignant memories.

 

[Geriatric Seagull]

Yes, definitely Notts County. I was at college in London so came down for the Aldershot replay the week before, then the reserve game then the Chelsea cup tie. Chelsea had a man sent off - John Boyle, then Tiger Tawse had a screamer disallowed before we finally equalised. Dave Turner, I think. Met my Dad in London for the replay - biggest crowd he'd ever been in! Jim Oliver missed a chance early on then we got well beaten!
Oh the joys of being a wrinkly!!

 

[perseus]

At one o'clock when I left the Goldstone having got my tickets (started queuing at 10 am) the queue was four deep (for Notts County reserves) from the East terrace to past the bus station south of the railway line. There was just as long queues going in the other direction as well.

We were very young back then (not very tall) and the only people that got in for the replay could not see a thing. I changed my mind about going on Shoreham railway station.

Unrelated quiz question: in which season did Peter Ward score his last competitive goal at the Goldstone?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I remember it well. I also remember taking a girlfriend to Stamford Bridge wearing a bright orange trouser suit - she was weraing it, not me. I wonder what became of her? Or me?

 

[fattyjohn]

on a different item ,but as older ones looking ,who did we have to go and see to get our tickets for villa at home 71-72 i think ?

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Why are old people known as 'crusties' ? Wondering as heading that way.

 

[Brovion]

I remember having to go to a reserve game in order to get a League Cup ticket for when we played Derby. As has been pointed out this was when the Cups mattered, now so many fans (and not just Brighton ones) are boring lifeless anal dorks who say they'd rather get three points against Ragarse Rovers as opposed to winning a Cup game against Liverpool. No spirit of adventure, that's the problem nowadays.

 

[Brovion]

Unrelated quiz question: in which season did Peter Ward score his last competitive goal at the Goldstone?

Ok I'll say the obvious: 1982-83. Against Man U when he was back with us on loan.

 

[el punal]

Why are old people known as 'crusties' ? Wondering as heading that way.

Take it as a compliment, like a vintage port - mature, appreciated and lays down well! Oh, and enjoy getting old disgracefully!

 

[el punal]

Off the top of my head I thought the reserve game was Notts County. I went to the replay with my uncle. Jim Oliver up front for us. Tony Hateley for chelsea.

Quite right. My mistake, Albion reserves played in the Combination league which were "southern" based clubs.

 

[AnotherArch]

Brighton were playing Peterboro away that day and you could get your Chelsea ticket before the match behind the main stand at Peterboro

At Peterbrough, you had to find the Brighton director, Len Stringer, who gave you a voucher that could be used at the ticket office during the next week to buy a ticket. The supporter's club in St George's Place also had some tickets - one per member on presentation of the membership card.