To the older posters; Would you prefer to have been born later?

[Paxton Dazo]

No I'm glad I saw football during the 70's & 80s.

 

[ewe2]

I do remember in the 70s and 80s football violence watching the Albion was not pleasant !

 

[Taybha]

f*** being young these days! im glad it takes me 56 mins to get a stiffy and who wants a face like a ham n mushroom pizza? nah being old rocks

 

[SpidersLegs]

I sometimes wish I was younger but I wouldn't have missed watching the Albion in the old 1st division & the cup final for anything. I will always remember what it was like sitting at school thinking of the next big team coming to the Goldstone on Saturday or the next away game we were going to. Back then we usually saw the reigning European Champions to.

 

[severnside gull]

Born in the early 50's and wouldn't have it any other way.
saw albion rise from division 4 to division 1 (and back!) and a cup final.

I've travelled the world and seen things my parents couldn't have imagined and which will have gone before my grandchildren can see them.

 

[Sir Norman Gull]

My impossible dream since the age of 5 was to see the albion in the top division and play at Wembley in the cup final.My dreams been completed in my era-can it happen again during my son's lifetime? Time for another dream to start!
I used to live just off Hove Park and would go to the games at the Goldstone on my own from the age of 8 and remember the glory days of winning div 4, Norman Wisdom leading choruses of 'Sussex by the sea' before a game and seeing the ageing legend that was Bobby Smith in an Albion shirt. That was in my time but new legends appear throughout all the ages-Fred Binney,Peter Ward John Crumplin and Bobby Zamora to name but a few-this will continue whichever time you live in!

 

[The Large One]

Older people seem to have no regrets about being born later.

I wonder if younger people would have to be born earlier.

 

[Horney]

I notice a couple of mentions for that thing I left out - the feeling of freedom to be out alone as a kid.

Yeah, it was a different attitude back then - though there WERE a lot of weirdos - most of us managed to dodge them though I would guess. I used to bike over to Hove Park at 6 years old, crossing the Old Shoreham Road, and without any adult supervision (sometimes waiting in the middle of the road for the lane to be free ). Then sometimes went to The Goldstone with my same-aged mate, from the age of 5!
Excursions alone, to go digging bait, night fishing, play football, bird's-nesting, conkers, climbing etc without adults around (unless they were chasing us off their farmland or whatever) were normal.

That for me ( born early 50's ) is the big change in society.... the restriction of freedom for a youngster.I can relate to all of the above and as you say, it was quite normal.
At school we had a boy who had access to unclipped rail tickets and we used these to go to all the big midweek games in London, regularly arriving home after midnight ( with school the next day ! )
I remember in the summer holidays, leaving home after breakfast, staying out all day ( often cycling miles ) and arriving back at tea-time.
My journey to school was approx 7 miles...5 miles by bus, the rest was walked.
I wouldn't swap growing up in the 60's for any other decade...we took it for granted at the time but looking back it was bloody exciting.

 

[withdeanwombat]

I am satisfied with the years I've lived through,though I wish I could go back and change a couple of things; wish I'd never gone into the Posada and lost my soul to a barmaid,wish I hadn't married the first time,wish Michael Robinson hadn't bottled it and landed Gordon Smith with his ill-earned label.

Otherwise,yep,it's been good.Change it? No.