The Goldstone

[Gully]

Safeway, grief can be attached to a lot of things, whether that be a relative, close friend or a family pet...why not a football ground?

As for getting a reality check for Christmas, I have added it to my wish list...in the meantime, if anyone would like my sense of humour and irony, send me a PM and I will gift wrap them and put them in the post.

 

[British Bulldog]

I will drive past, but I won’t spend a penny there, I have no problem with the companies and will shop in all these stores elsewhere, but to me the Goldstone is sacred ground. A place of great memories of many family generations, so just to say get over it, I wont, ever!

I dont think any of us will ever get over the loss of the Goldstone and what Archer, Stanley & bellotti done to us but every fan deals with it in different ways. Some of us can go there and some of us cant, But nobody's wrong in what they choose.

 

[Buzzer]

I dont think any of us will ever get over the loss of the Goldstone and what Archer, Stanley & bellotti done to us but every fan deals with it in different ways. Some of us can go there and some of us cant, But nobody's wrong in what they choose.

Absolutely spot on BB.

 

[Icy Gull]

amazed that such a large percentage won't even drive past

 

[Brovion]

Actually, you've missed an option off. Where's the "I go there regularly and don't give monkeys" option? I've bought stuff from all the shops there and we often just use the car park, go to Burger King and take the dogs to Hove Park. Very convienient.

I DID boycott it at first but I realised I was just being stuid, after all it was never going to be turned back into a football ground and no one else (bar a few people on here) boycotts it. Every time I've been there the car park and shops have been PACKED. I have to admit my first visit (about five years ago) was a bit strange but I've long got over it. Don't think twice about going there now.

PS - My wife never boycotted it, she was one fo the first people through the doors of Toys 'R' Us when it opened.

 

[Napper]

drive past , never buy anything there ever !!!!!!!

 

[JJ McClure]

Have never set foot on the place since and don't plan to any time soon.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Like many others, I don't attach any blame to the shops that are there now, and we do sometimes go to Toys'R'Us.

I like the idea, above, of some kind of monument at the site though. Doesn't need to be anything grand, but something, so that the future generations know what went before, would be nice.

Focus DIY, on the other hand, I could not ever go into. I may be wrong, but I think the devil actually sold Focus a few years ago, but I still can't go in there. Its irrational I know, but who says everyone has to deal with their anger rationally?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

I have been known to put a bag over my head when going past (literally!!)

As has already been said its a place that was stolen from us. If we had left there to move to a new ground immediately i would have no problem going there

 

[tedebear]

I wasn't around when you went through all the Goldstone grief and the dark days that followed...

The one thing that annoys me is that strangely in this country - football grounds and sporting arenas play second fiddle to shopping centres in a fair few situations....Its arse about face - and when we drive past the Goldstone it makes me think that this country just disses sport, rather have Toys R Us than a football ground which the whole community needs....Same with our trials over Falmer...

 

[Brovion]

I wasn't around when you went through all the Goldstone grief and the dark days that followed...

The one thing that annoys me is that strangely in this country - football grounds and sporting arenas play second fiddle to shopping centres in a fair few situations....Its arse about face - and when we drive past the Goldstone it makes me think that this country just disses sport, rather have Toys R Us than a football ground which the whole community needs....Same with our trials over Falmer...

Just British priorities. Well sell grounds for retail developments, oppose sports stadiums and sell off school playing fields - then moan 'cos we're crap at sport!

 

[tedebear]

Just British priorities. Well sell grounds for retail developments, oppose sports stadiums and sell off school playing fields - then moan 'cos we're crap at sport!

Exactamundo!

 

[Moshe Gariani]

another vote for "have never driven past"

Mrs G was very understanding about our not being alllowed to go to DFS recently...

I am amazed by some of the comments on here - is "oh well, life goes on" really the best way to personally commemorate what Archer did to The Goldstone?

 

[Dave the OAP]

driven past it, shopped there, etc etc.

the goldstone is long gone and whilst it will always be a part of our lives it has now gone and if you believe Mike Ward, who recons our hatred of palace has no place in our psyche as we have to attract the younger generation, then by definition, we must move on as the younger generation know asolutely chocolate soldiers about the Goldstone.

so there.

 

[phil1977]

Luckily I lived in Bristol almost since our beloved ground was demolished, so I don't have to face that shitty generic retail black hole often.

I have to admit, I have never been there or seen it in the flesh since May '97 nor that I'd want to!!

If I did see it I know I will be angry and upset and usually I am quite a calm and rational bloke

Sorry to say, Bellotti, Archer and Stanley can still f*** off and die

We are still suffering the consequences from those morons actions ten years on, it's impossible to foget that!!!

 

[sully]

I may be wrong, but I think the devil actually sold Focus a few years ago, but I still can't go in there.

I think you are wrong.





I drive past the Goldstone on my way to and from work most days. I tend to glance slightly towards Hove Park as I do so.

I've been into Toys R Us once and Comet once (both on the same day) and felt very uncomfortable there. I've no intention of going back any time soon.

A vision that I get a flashback of regularly is of when I inadvertantly drove past when the bulldozers were on the pitch. It ripped my heart out and I was physically shocked. It took several years before I could even contemplate passing the site after that, but time's a great healer and I'm slowly coming to terms with the loss. It would be so much easier if we had a new home, though.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I can drive past but will never spend money there

 

[surrey jim]

Yes, but I'll nveer buy anything from the retail park