Things you could do at the goldstone but not at falmer!

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Watch police horses gallop majestically across the sacred turf!

 

[wallyback]

Climb the floodlights

 

[Doc Lynam]

Use the little mud slide at the back of the North Stand when leaving.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Smoke whilst listening to Tony Millard.

 

[Fungus]

Wait for the ball to be retrieved from the Old Shoreham Road.

Throw celery.

Bang your head trying to duck under the crash barriers on the way out.

Walk all the way home.

 

[Mr Blobby]

Buy an out of date waggon wheel from the East Terrace "catering" hut!!

Have 50 Millwall fans in masks standing behind you and barking angry police dogs in front of you when just 10 years old and thinking that a police dog bite was safer than being near the Millwall lot!

Standing on a crate (purpose built as we were posh) at the back of the South West terrace

Wearing a scarf round your wrist and not looking a complete fool (as loads of others did it!!!)

 

[TheMajor]

Wait patiently at HT for the scores to be put into those A B C D E F ............ thingies pitchside.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Buy an Argus, Shoot or Match from Fred

 

[Paskman]

Watch the game through a wire mesh (at least in the 80s you could have that pleasure!)

Climb the floodlights

Get in for less than a pound

Trip on the cracks in the terracing

Pogo

smoke on the terraces

Best of all watch Peter Ward!

 

[Storer 68]

Here's one in reverse - ie something you could do at Falmer but NOT as the Goldstone

Watch Albion lose a league game v palace

 

[toostonedtocare]

Climb over the wall at the SE point and get in the South stand....
And if that failed watch the last 20 minutes for free when the gates opened.
Use a rattle.

 

[pasty]

Wait patiently at HT for the scores to be put into those A B C D E F ............ thingies pitchside.

(As a kid) lean over the West Stand wall at the front and change the numbers round

 

[pork pie]

Watch 4th div footy.

Or more positively - WATCH TOP FLIGHT FOOTBALL!

 

[DavePage]

buy a jackpot ticket and wait for the guy with the board to walk around the ground to see if you had won.
then jeer at the guy to get out off the way so you could see the bloody game

 

[DavePage]

predict the times of the goals pound a throw in the executive club, always tried to get 45 & 90 mins as it always included the injury time

 

[DavePage]

sit next to a guy that always wore sandals all year, what ever the weather

 

[DavePage]

as a young jackpot & program me seller, being allowing to stand behind our dugout with the reserves when the crowds were large

 

[wellquickwoody]

When heading south down Goldstone Lane after the game, do a runner into the South Stand seats to exit via the South West corner to escape the pursuing Leeds fans.......only to find more of the buggers in Newtown Road, doh!

 

[Lankyseagull]

Get chips & curry sauce after the match from the van parked on the corner of the Old Shoreham Road/Newtown Road. Yum!

 

[sydney]

Masturbate furiously