Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,062
I was welling up when Calde appeared, let ALONE the rest of the afternoon...
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So come on... who cried?
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Magic Sponge
Well-known member
I have to admit that I did have a moment.
Yep. Much to the bemusement of my gf and mother who were there to witness the great day.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
I was holding it together, then Bruno started and I couldn't hold it in.
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 13,062
I could feel myself starting to as the game neared it's end but I said to myself "No, come on, keep it together" then the final whistle blew and I couldn't stop it. Just a couple of tears but then I turned to cheer with my dad, saw him bawling and that was it. Floods.
BUTTERBALL
East Stand Brighton Boyz
Was in the North Stand celebrating when the words 'Brighton Promoted to the Premier League' came up on the TV screen. Admit to having a tear in my eye when i saw that, really brought home the magnitude of what had just happened.
Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
- 7,375
I just held it in then, but went at the end when seeing everyone on the pitch. I asked on another thread, did anybody else notice Paul Barber wiping away a tear behind Tony Bloom when they were shown on the big screen? We were on the pitch by that time and I don't know if I imagined it in the bedlam. He certainly sounded like he'd had a good night on the radio this morning. Loved his reaction when asked about keeping everyone off the pitch. He just laughed and said 'Yeah, that went well didn't it?'
He was definitely blubbing!
Megazone
On his last warning
I started crying when I saw Dunk in just his underpants.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
Yep
portlock seagull
Well-known member
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,780
Nope. The surrealness of it all probably. It just felt very odd. The end of an era and the opening of an entirely new book in the history of our great club.
Yes. Yes I did.
Yes.
And I just have again reading Henry Winter's report of the day: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brighton-seal-promotion-to-end-34-years-of-hurt-p2frnw6xz
(I know it's behind a paywall but if you register, you get 2 free articles a week. This one is well worth it.)
A snippet:
And certainly the passion of the supporters, many of whom kept the flame alive through the darkest of days, will enhance the Premier League. The largest-ever gathering of Albion fans at the Amex, 29,620, reported for duty yesterday. Nobody wanted to miss out. The Lewes Road park and ride was full early. Mill Road park and ride was soon crammed, with cars directed to Brighton Racecourse. Trains to Falmer were all-standing, often all-singing. This was the one, the moment that they had been waiting so long for.
It was a day of endless songs, probably becoming slurred as darkness fell. The game was preceded by a rousing rendition of Sussex by the Sea and soon the fans were loudly lauding Hughton, the dapper figure who rarely left the front of the technical area and was orchestrating this win over Wigan Athletic. Fans waved banners saluting the former chairman Dick Knight, who started the campaign to move to Falmer. They sang of rivalry: “Crystal Palace — we’re coming for you”.
And I just have again reading Henry Winter's report of the day: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brighton-seal-promotion-to-end-34-years-of-hurt-p2frnw6xz
(I know it's behind a paywall but if you register, you get 2 free articles a week. This one is well worth it.)
A snippet:
And certainly the passion of the supporters, many of whom kept the flame alive through the darkest of days, will enhance the Premier League. The largest-ever gathering of Albion fans at the Amex, 29,620, reported for duty yesterday. Nobody wanted to miss out. The Lewes Road park and ride was full early. Mill Road park and ride was soon crammed, with cars directed to Brighton Racecourse. Trains to Falmer were all-standing, often all-singing. This was the one, the moment that they had been waiting so long for.
It was a day of endless songs, probably becoming slurred as darkness fell. The game was preceded by a rousing rendition of Sussex by the Sea and soon the fans were loudly lauding Hughton, the dapper figure who rarely left the front of the technical area and was orchestrating this win over Wigan Athletic. Fans waved banners saluting the former chairman Dick Knight, who started the campaign to move to Falmer. They sang of rivalry: “Crystal Palace — we’re coming for you”.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Nope.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Yes I did on 2 occasions. After hugging a random stranger in the West Lower who was crying, he set me off. When I then met Chris Hughton's wife and asked if her she could tell her husband how grateful I am, I started again and wandered onto the pitch. A lot of people were. The sight of a bloke crying into the arms of a police officer in the West Lower sticks in my mind too.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
What set me off was the banner for Roy Chuter and Sarah Watts, it just hit home all the people we have lost in this journey, Karen Chuter, John (the rockshop) Stevenson, Uncle Tony such passonate and blindly loyal suppoters, and none who got to witness this day but who without them no one would have experiened it.
Moshe Gariani
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,203
That is a great article with rare accuracy about the fans' experience of the day.
On OP then... yes, of course, several times. To have been waiting nearly 40 years for something and then to have it delivered with such perfection, excitement and high emotions it would be strange not to shed a tear.