[Albion] Special Times

[Weststander]

What? Even better than losing to 9 man Walsall in the pissing rain at a sports track?

30 years ago I went to occasional Goldstone games in the Nicky Rust era. 12,000 folk rattling around on weed covered terraces, asset stripping sly (rich) owners investing Jack Sh1t, any manager with a backbone sacked.

Now a large well run club with incredible facilities, brilliance from top to bottom and some of the best football anywhere.

Who could’ve predicted this?

 

[portlock seagull]

30 years ago I went to occasional Goldstone games in the Nicky Rust era. 12,000 folk rattling around on weed covered terraces, asset stripping sly (rich) owners investing Jack Sh1t, any manager with a backbone sacked.

Now a large well run club with incredible facilities, brilliance from top to bottom and some of the best football anywhere.

Who could’ve predicted this?

Not where we are currently in the way the game is today. I always believed we’d come back, one day, the belief in that never waived. Even at Priestfield. The how bit I couldn’t say. Thank you Dick and Tony!!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

My arms getting a bit bruised where I keep pinching myself.

 

[Weststander]

Not where we are currently in the way the game is today. I always believed we’d come back, one day, the belief in that never waived. Even at Priestfield. The how bit I couldn’t say. Thank you Dick and Tony!!

I always knew we had the fanbase and vast catchment area. I remember a SouthToday/Fred Dinneage local news about 30 years ago where Rick Wakeman (not an Albion fan) said in passing that we were THE sleeping giant. My ears pricked up!

Exactly. DK and others beat the establishment and crooks, TB made the dream come true.

We fkn deserve this.

 

[essbee1]

Yes special times, but with the current squad and manager they could get even better.

Not only is it the results, it's the style of play, which is just a joy to watch.

And breaking down in a double decker bus on the M25 on the way back from gillingham. Nightmare.

 

[Happy Exile]

I like the Guardian summary of today:

"This wasn’t all about Evan Ferguson. The first five minutes aside, Brighton were just brilliant, an extended shot of dopamine for neutrals never mind their own fans. Billy Gilmour – who is receiving an animated post-match appraisal from Roberto De Zerbi as I type - and Pascal Gross ran the game even though they were ostensibly outnumbered in midfield, Newcastle couldn’t get near Joao Pedro, and I could go on but I’m just repeating myself now. In so many ways, modern football is soul-destroying nonsense. Then there’s Brighton & Hove Albion."

 

[Sussexscots]

Days like today. Watching this team playing the game in a joyous, life affirming fashion. Not dour, stay in this league at all costs, percentage football. Our team going toe to toe with oil state clubs. And humping them.

It's just effin' tremendous!

 

[Gazwag]

I'm re watching the game having recorded it and at the end they showed our next 8 games and there are these two European clubs listed which is quite surreal

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Indeed, special times when you make a champions league team look very ordinary.

 

[Bodian]

I'm re watching the game having recorded it and at the end they showed our next 8 games and there are these two European clubs listed which is quite surreal

Next nine games:


Man Utd
AEK Athens
Bournemouth
Chelsea
Villa
Marseille
Liverpool
Man City
Ajax

And crazier still, we could actually win them all (except Bournemouth obviously).

 

[Napper]

Been some week hasn’t it

 

[essbee1]

Been some week hasn’t it

Probably no week could ever top it. Indeed.

 

[Bodian]

Probably no week could ever top it. Indeed.

19 May 2024 - beat Man United at the Amex to seal 4th place in the Premier League and CL
22 May 2024 - Win the Europa League Final in Dublin
23 May 2024 - De Zerbi says he's not satisfied yet, and will stay another five years to meet his 'new target'.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Is it just me thinking 31 more points then we are safe……

Wasn’t that long ago Leicester were lauded as the best run club in the country….

 

[Weststander]

I like the Guardian summary of today:

"This wasn’t all about Evan Ferguson. The first five minutes aside, Brighton were just brilliant, an extended shot of dopamine for neutrals never mind their own fans. Billy Gilmour – who is receiving an animated post-match appraisal from Roberto De Zerbi as I type - and Pascal Gross ran the game even though they were ostensibly outnumbered in midfield, Newcastle couldn’t get near Joao Pedro, and I could go on but I’m just repeating myself now. In so many ways, modern football is soul-destroying nonsense. Then there’s Brighton & Hove Albion."

Lovely words

 

[Goldstone1976]

Next nine games:


Man Utd
AEK Athens
Bournemouth
Chelsea
Villa
Marseille
Liverpool
Man City
Ajax

And crazier still, we could actually win them all (except Bournemouth obviously).

Is it just me that looks at that run of games and goes gulp?

 

[Bodian]

Is it just me that looks at that run of games and goes gulp?

Two years ago - all of us would have done. Now - bring it on!

 

[Cotton Socks]

After all the excitement over Fati, and the European Draw - I felt that we were probably going to come back down to earth with a bump today. Instead we just brushed aside an expensively put together Champions League team. Astonishing that this just keeps on happening, and I'm still surprised by it. And long may that last - I really don't want to get used to this, and familiarity breeding content and all that.

^^This^^

 

[dazzer6666]

Well, we’ve had worse weeks.

 

[Hamilton]

My first game was 1977. We were on the cusp of greatness then, and as a 9-year-old I took it for granted. Little did I know!

But this is something different. We’re not on the cusp of greatness, we’re in the thick of it. Enjoy each moment and live in the present, and never take it for granted.

Perhaps in a minute I’ll wake up.