Things that immediately transport you back to The Goldstone

[Driver8]

I can still remember those North Stand toilets, with the solitary cubicle that I hid in for a crafty fag in case my dad came in! Every other Saturday during the season for over 22 years I used to take the walk from by the greyhound stadium past the park to the ground but since the last game I haven't even driven past where it used to be.

Perhaps the council should move the actual goldstone. to falmer so it could become the Goldsone stadium!

 

[Stoichkov]

On the bottom half of the Droveway there's a house built in a art deco style.

As a juvenile 13 / 14 year old, myself & my mates used to bellow 'Saltdean Lido' at it as we walked past. We thought we were hilairious. I do however laugh when I pass it now.

About a minute after passing that house, we'd round the bottom of the Droveway to see the floodlights on across the Park and just about hear the tannoy.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Another first post...

Going up Woodland Drive (it always took 20 minutes after a game)
Anything by Boney-M but especially Rivers of Babylon
Hamlet cigars (mine... ahh, happy memories)
Austin 1100s

 

[ady1973]

Seeing my old metal bucket I used to stand on, when I used to go with my dad in the East stand as a child.

Then as a teenager it became the pipe smoke and peeling paint from the iron rails.Just the simple sounds of an old guy shouting ARGOS gets my heart pumping.

So many good memories just hope Falmer will half as much character as the Goldstone had............ RIP.....never forgotten

 

[pasty]

The smell of whisky or brandy infused coffee. When I was wee lad, dad always used to have a tot of whisky or three in his thermos. Never really thought much about drink-driving 35 years ago!

 

[Shanker45]

Hard not to get all emotional when you read these posts.

For me it used to be;

The excitement building on the train to Hove as you tried to be the first one out of your mates to see the floodlights.

Fred the Argus seller

More recently;

buying the latest Gulls Eye and wearing your "Jonny Crumplin football genius t-shirt".

Trying to get as close to the Directors box as possible to hurl abuse at Belotti, Stanley ans Archer

PC Beard - remember him?

 

[Hove Seagull]

Board man, board man give us a wave!

 

[pasty]

Board man, board man give us a wave!

GET THAT f***ing BOARD OUT THE WAY

I always remember there was some correlation between how many hundreds the 1st prize amount, was near enough half the thousands in the crowd. £600 prize was 12K crowd - or something like that anyway

 

[Shanker45]

GET THAT f***ing BOARD OUT THE WAY

I always remember there was some correlation between how many hundreds the 1st prize amount, was near enough half the thousands in the crowd. £600 prize was 12K crowd - or something like that anyway

I thought it was half the takings for the "Goldstone Gamble"? My mate won it once.... happy days. Met Liam Brady and then had an evening of beer and curry all paid for!

 

[Meade's Ball]

If anyone has my signed Paul McCarthy photo which i wore with a gold chain, the photo blutacked to it, in 1993, please give it back to me. I danced in celebration or anger over something and the snap went missing. Yes, i have a Guy Butters A4 one now, but i wouldn't half mind that McCarthy one back to remind me more of the Goldstone and that 3-3 draw with Bournemouth and the man who looked like Freddie Mercury in the crowd and unwanted waves from Chris Eubank whilst he washes a fancy car i care little for and smoking lucky cigarettes at particular times during games.

 

[severnside gull]

Oh my days!.


The sun shining brightly over the bright green rolled and striped turf on the first home game of the season....I am welling up thinking of it...

Jeez that's brought a tear to my eye!

Roll on Falmer


they MUST make some reference to the Goldstone at Falmer whether in the name of a stand or the approach road. They HAVE to

 

[Insider]

Fleetwood Mac, but also Dire Straits! Especially Walk Of Life and the old-style turnstile click. Anytime I arrive at Hove Station, and anytime I walk over that Bridge. Going in the Hove Park Tavern for a beer (about twice since we left there). The tunnel by the bus garage.

 

[jevs]

The smell of pipe tobacco takes me back to the mid 70's

Also, that music at the start of sports report on Radio 5 as we got into my dads car at 5pm as well as the results read by James Alexander Gordon.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Fleetwood Mac, but also Dire Straits! Especially Walk Of Life and the old-style turnstile click. Anytime I arrive at Hove Station, and anytime I walk over that Bridge. Going in the Hove Park Tavern for a beer (about twice since we left there). The tunnel by the bus garage.

We had a ritual on matchdays. Come out of Hove Station and down past the pub and then down the steps and past the Conway St. bus depot and back up the road to the churchy building to get our programmes and then along the road behind the East Terrace, peering in through the gaps in the emergency exits to see the pitch and then on up to the North Stand turnstiles.

After the game we would go the other way back to the station by going a bit further along O S R and then cutting down to the footbridge over the tracks to Hove Station. I don't think we ever deviated from that routine as it would bring bad luck etc but sometimes we would look through the gap in the big doors on the East and something felt right about going on the East Terrace so we would go in there instead of the North Stand. We had our set place on both terraces and wouldn't ever stand anywhere else.

 

[Taybha]

probably the smell of piss sends my mind wafting back to the good old days, and every time i see a wet fag butt it reminds me of the endless stream of them that used to float by on said piss in the north stand bog. ahhhhhhhh how i miss those halycon days

 

[Man of Harveys]

The smell of cigar smoke - but only in the open air which, let's face it, is generally a fairly rare occurence. That and the sight of an orange Townsend Thorensen banner or logo.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

When I was a kid the turnstile guys used to let my sister lift me over, for no charge.

No wonder we went skint.........

 

[Mendoza]

I still carry with me in my wallet my 91-92 Junior Seagulls Club Membership Card. Its Sky Blue, laminated card board with my name and membership number on the front and on the back a mini advert which says "TRUSTCARD - It's all you need"

I love that card and reminds me of being let into that church thing next to the goldstone so I could kick an oversized tennis ball onto a bench turned onto its side with various other Junior Seagulls

 

[Collar Feeler]

Every time i go in my garage, perched up in the rafters is one of the old wooden west stand seats, it brings back all sorts of memories.

Often on a night shift I will patrol very slowly around the perimeter taking in the sights of the old dilapidated building that sits behind where the south stand was. And driving up Goldstone Lane behind the Chicken Run I look at the houses there and recall people on roofs and garages and hanging out of windows getting a free watch of the game. And Paco Rabanne after shave takes me there in an instant. A bloke near us in the Chicken Run must have used about half a bottle every home match and I am taken back to that crumbling terrace with the boards along it halfway as the bottom half was deemed unsafe for many years. Last thing is any mention of the phrase, "crowd surge", haha standing with your mates in the North stand and then us scoring and finding yourself about 50 yards from your nearest mate, f***ing brilliant stuff!

 

[Questions]

Processed cheese in rolls,
St Bruno ready rubbed baccy
Newspaper sellers and their calls.
Menthol embrocation
Wafting smoke (cigarette) across an illuminated night sky.
Old men in flat caps shouting funny insults.