[Albion] Slade at the Goldstone

[Flounce]

This has been done before but as it‘s Christmas and Slade the timing is right!

Who else was there? Struggling to remember who the game was against though.

A roll call of players featured would be good, I’ll start with Wardy

 

[Sheebo]

Albion scarf - lovely

 

[Flounce]

Albion scarf - lovely

Must have been tough for a Walsall fan

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Can’t remember what the game was like but the song, as I recall, was pretty shite!

 

[Questions]

I’ve got Burnley or Sheff Itd in my head,

 

[kojak]

I’ve got Burnley or Sheff Itd in my head,

Burnley

 

[Flounce]

Burnley

I am guessing we didn’t win

 

[Eeyore]

I am guessing we didn’t win

11.02.1978 2-1

The song flopped, just like our promotion campaign.

Not sure the North Stand would be so obliging if it was done these days.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Won 2-1

 

[kojak]

I am guessing we didn’t win

We won a lot at home back then

 

[Bansko Seagull]

I just remember it all being a bit strange. Not sure any of us knew why they were at the Goldstone Ground.

 

[veuve]

Crap song,crap game.

 

[BN9 BHA]

 

[marlowe]

From Wiki.....

The song's music video was shot at Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.'s Goldstone Ground in Hove on 9 and 11 February 1978.[4] It features the band performing the song in front of the team's supporters, interspersed with sequences of the band playing football with the team. The footage of the band playing football was shot on the first day of filming during one of the team's practice matches and the footage of the band performing the song was shot on the second day of filming prior to a home match. It was so cold during the shoot that the band struggled to play football on the first day and guitarist Dave Hill had to wear a woolly hat on the second.[6]

The directors of the video insisted the film crew keep filming until one of the band members scored a goal against Brighton's goalkeeper. It took a long time for them to achieve this but eventually drummer Don Powell was successful.[6] In 1991, Holder recalled, "We were actually playing with the Brighton team and they kicked the shit out of us. Alan Mullery was the manager at the time and he was shouting to the team from the sidelines, 'Let them have a kick!'. I had to take a penalty at one point and could I get the ball in the net? I must have tried ten times and in the end the goalie was rolling on the floor pissing himself laughing."[3]

 

[nickjhs]

I saw Slade at Reading in 1980 when they were the very much unwanted replacement for Ozzy Osborne. It took them less than 2 songs to turn around a very hostile crowd, absolutely magic live.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I was there, watching on from in front of the old Radio Brighton box on the West side

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

Crap song,crap game.

Great band though

 

[Bodian]

11.02.1978 2-1

The song flopped, just like our promotion campaign.

What - they were kept out of the charts by match-fixing between the bands above them?

 

[kojak]

I was there, watching on from in front of the old Radio Brighton box on the West side

I was in the Chicken run,can't remember it being cold,pretty sure it was quite sunny
Vague memory of Steve kindon scoring for them?

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

This has been done before but as it‘s Christmas and Slade the timing is right!

Who else was there? Struggling to remember who the game was against though.

A roll call of players featured would be good, I’ll start with Wardy

Definitely Burnley. Remember it well. Paul Fletcher, Steve Kindon, Peter Noble etc.