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Rare video footage: Brighton v Fulham 1969/70







Papa Lazarou

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How odd that the programme is in colour but the highlights are in black and white
 


Eeyore

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Freeze frame suggests Napier may well have punched the first goal in.
 


Not Andy Naylor

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Freeze frame suggests Napier may well have punched the first goal in.

Alan Gilliver, I think. Kit Napier took the corner.

The footage was in black and white because the game would originally have been covered by the useless Southern Soccer.

But what was really unusual was seeing a game covered by cameras in the West Stand.
 


Goldstone Rapper

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Yes, Gilliver with the equaliser.
 






Anger

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Fulham have every right to be annoyed with that goal.
 


1234andcounting

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Isn't Kit Napier one of the few Albion players to have scored directly from a corner?

Fulham's goal by Johnny Haynes, first £100 pw footballer. Just goes to show how money is spoiling the game.
 




rocker959

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Seems like yesterday . Remember it so well . Thanks for posting .
 




Eeyore

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Isn't Kit Napier one of the few Albion players to have scored directly from a corner?

Fulham's goal by Johnny Haynes, first £100 pw footballer. Just goes to show how money is spoiling the game.

I thought I saw Albion score from a corner at Wrexham once. Crumplin, perhaps ?
 




Not Andy Naylor

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Kit Napier did indeed score from a corner, in front of the North Stand. It had been coming, as his delicately-floated flag kicks used to curl in under the bar and put keepers under tremendous pressure. And he could take them from both sides.

Johnny Crumplin football genius's effort was really unusual in that he took it right-footed from the right so, logically, it should have been an outswinger. But I think he sliced it a bit and it dropped in.
 


One Teddy Maybank

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Alan Gilliver, I think. Kit Napier took the corner.

The footage was in black and white because the game would originally have been covered by the useless Southern Soccer.

But what was really unusual was seeing a game covered by cameras in the West Stand.


Yes good spot, funnily enough I was thinking about the scaffolding that used to appear on the East terrace......
 


Not Andy Naylor

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Yes good spot, funnily enough I was thinking about the scaffolding that used to appear on the East terrace......

I know the BBC did that when they televised games, but Southern's budget was probably so low that they just stuck a camera in the press box.
 








taz

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Lovely pass from the very underrated Willy Henderson for the second goal,, kit Napier was the supports favourite by far as the main attacking player in build up or scoring !! Fulham were allways a big crowd puller at the goldstone but we're usually in divisions above us,, the Albion home crowd record 36000+ was just ten years before this game !!
 


DumLum

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Kit Napier did indeed score from a corner, in front of the North Stand. It had been coming, as his delicately-floated flag kicks used to curl in under the bar and put keepers under tremendous pressure. And he could take them from both sides.

Johnny Crumplin football genius's effort was really unusual in that he took it right-footed from the right so, logically, it should have been an outswinger. But I think he sliced it a bit and it dropped in.

Only direct corner I personally remember was Wolves scoring against Tony Meola.
 




Freddie Goodwin.

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I've seen Kit score at least two direct from corners and from opposite side too, so truly two footed.

Stewart Henderson was our No 2, not Willie. He was a tidy full back, small and classy.
 


GT49er

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Lovely pass from the very underrated Willy Henderson for the second goal,, kit Napier was the supports favourite by far as the main attacking player in build up or scoring !! Fulham were allways a big crowd puller at the goldstone but we're usually in divisions above us,, the Albion home crowd record 36000+ was just ten years before this game !!
Willy Henderson?

Edit: Oops, sorry - someone beat me to it.
 


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