Things that immediately transport you back to The Goldstone

[Playing On The Grit]

What sight, sound or smell etc takes you back home to The Goldstone?

Whenever I hear Little Lies and Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac (which have both been on the radio recently) I'm immediately back at The Goldstone in 1988!

I remember the dj used to play them regularly before games during that era and when I hear them now I still hear them with the tinny echo of the Goldstone tannoy and I can still see an empty Goldstone starting to fill up as I make my way to my place behind the north stand goal!


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[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

the smell of pipe tobacco does it for me, there were 2 blokes in the north stand that looked identical, and they seemed to have a pipe on the go for the entire match. EVERY match

 

[fleet]

I know we should have fond memories, but the stink of the toilets and the stink of the soggy chips were strong but not very nice memories. To be fair the toilets improved in the years before we moved out.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

The kebab shop down from Brighton station... might be closed now. Was always part of the ritual - kebab after the game.

Happy days

 

[westy]

The smell of dirty Benson smoke in the air takes me back to standing in the north stand...

 

[The Large One]

Smoke, rank burgers and 'September' by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Oh, and the sun rarely shone there either.

 

[Was not Was]

"Going down the Shoreham Road ..." - always makes me think of literally walking down Old Shoreham Rd.

 

[skipper734]

Smoke, rank burgers and 'September' by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Oh, and the sun rarely shone there either.

It didn't shine a lot in the West Stand, but I can remember lots of happy and unhappy sunny times in the Chicken Run.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I've just cycled past the Goldstone Retail Park on my way back from Portslade and that sort of reminded me.

 

[backson]

There are certain types of cigarette smoke that do it for me too.

I drive past on the Old Shoreham Road all the time without even thinking about it. However, approaching from the other side and seeing this place sets me off as well.

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[The Peanut Roaster]

Everytime I go through Hove station towards Brighton, I still look for the floodlights!

 

[Simster]

Singing "Going down Old Shoreham Road"
The smell of cigarettes
The sight of the East Stand from OSR, and being able to predict the gate based on how full it was at 2.30pm
The smell of those shit steak and kidney pies
Song: "I hear you knocking" by Dave Edmunds.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Just Hove Station, basically.

Ditto Simster, but from the other direction, first glimpse of the North Stand after passing the church and making the same calculation.

And driving down Dyke Road, the natural urge is still to turn right into Hove Park Road or The Droveway, park up, and get there before kick-off.

 

[backson]

Thinking about songs, mid to late 80's they had a phase of playing Ralph McTell's "I'm a winner" song, at about 10 to 3 every home game. Don't think I've heard it since.

 

[severnside gull]

the smell of linament for me mixed with tobacco smoke -after I got tired of the anarchy of the North Stand I used to watch from the terrace under the West, right next to the players' tunnel. To this day I prefer to watch matches from by the halfway line

 

[BLOCK F]

Used to have a season ticket in the West Stand on about the halfway line....the smell of cigar smoke,linament and dodgy Brighton geezers in camel hair coats.The noise of the baths filling up from the tanks for after the game,gloomy bogs,smell of pies,....bringing my own thermos of coffee...sitting next to the same people year after year and saying hello especially at first game of the season.When I was a boy,I used to stand behind the dugout by the players tunnel....my memories are of Frankie Howard the groundsman and Cyril Hodges,the trainer;also hearing the clatter of the players' boots as they made their way to the pitch.Oh yes,the old boy selling the Argus and the half-time scores thingys round the pitch!!
Very happy memories!I could always go to the game and get thoroughly involved and forget any troubles I had!

 

[thejackal]

The smell of those shit steak and kidney pies

Definitely those nasty pies. Never ever saw anyone finish one!

 

[Bigtomfu]

The sight of the East Stand from OSR, and being able to predict the gate based on how full it was at 2.30pm
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We always used to go to Corals for a beer before games, and I knew within about 500 people the gate based on how far down Goldstone Crescent we had to go to find a parking space.

If it reached the end of Hove park you knew you had a 10,000er.

 

[Perry Milkins]

Smoke, rank burgers and 'September' by Earth, Wind & Fire.

Oh, and the sun rarely shone there either.

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...

 

[Paskman]

Good time as any to make my first post - having registered ages ago! Hi everyone!!

Anyway back to the tread:

Song: Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey - in the season they got promoted under Pat Saward it seemed to be played before every match.

Sight: Stadium floodlights at night - remind me of those evening matches and rolling clouds of cigarette smoke.

Player: Just the mention of Peter Ward!