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[Albion] The Goldstone Ground - model
- Thread starter Grassman
- Start date
Incredible, i even watched a floodlit cricket match there
Something in my eye.
And yet.....what a dump.
I think that encapsulates the essence of nostalgia, and why I try to avoid it.
If you could travel back in time and have one more visit to the gents "facilities" - nostalgia killed stone-dead.
The modelling is immense
Weststander
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Bertie D'Astard
Member
- Aug 19, 2018
- 9
Just brilliant - and you could add your own Lego stand !
studio150
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Superb
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Excellent. Fantastic attention to detail. The only thing that wasn't there, which I was expecting, was the sign on the Old Shoreham Road side which used to advertise the next game(s). Did I imagine that? Was it on a corner a bit further away from the actual ground?
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
- 8,646
Just an incredible piece of work. Congrats to the model maker
What a beautiful football stadium we used to have. I absolutely reject any notion that it was a dump. Though I can't in all honesty argue with the point about the bogs
What a beautiful football stadium we used to have. I absolutely reject any notion that it was a dump. Though I can't in all honesty argue with the point about the bogs
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
- 8,646
You didn't imagine that.
And interestingly enough there is a billboard very near the site on the Shoreham Road, but on the other side of the road just near the curry house. That flashes up different adverts for the normal different tat, but if you're lucky, you'll see an ad for an Albion event, maybe a woman's game or something. That can't be a coincidence surely. Someone at the club has decided to get their ad right next to the Goldstone site
5Ways Gull
È quello che è
It was still better than the Dell!! At some stage or other over the years I found myself in every stand and I could always see all 4 corners of the pitch.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Not always a dump! Yes it was crumbling away in it's latter years, but it wasn't always thus.
The Amex of course is better in almost every respect, except . . . for atmosphere. I just loved the pld place.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
- 8,646
It's better in the sense that it's comfier, less cramped and has better facilities
I'm quite rose tinted on this, but I think those clubs plying their way in the lower leagues, playing in their historic and centrally located old ground, with a decent behind the goal terrace, have a lot that we don't. Even if i'm sure they won't always see it like that
Magnificent. I may have asked this before but does anyone have a photo of the inside of the portacabin club shop on the site of the old lego stand (was it just there the last few years?) and/or the smaller old club shop which became a ticket office? Would just love to see it again and all the wonderful merchandise on display.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Absolutely, 100% agree. Atmospheric the Amex certainly isn't.
el punal
Well-known member
And have Mikel Arteta as manager.
Superphil
Dismember
And we always ran out to GOSBTS as far back as I can remember except a very brief period (1 game?) when Bellotti stopped it.