[Albion] What’s your favourite ever Brighton defeat

[Skaville]

I have really fond memories of our 1-0 defeat to Burnley in 2011, the Craig Pawson game with the two reds. A great atmosphere at the Amex and a wonderful performance from CMS. I left the ground feeling a bit like we’d won, despite us getting nothing.

Can you think of any other defeats that you rather enjoyed?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Certainly that night was when it felt like the Amex had really become our home

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I can't say I enjoyed it but I felt a lot of pride (along with the inevitable frustration) after the FA cup defeat at White Hart Lane in 2005. I live in the heart of Tottenham's fanbase and there was universal praise for our performance ,and not in a patronising way; we gave them a real fright.

 

[RONALDEANO]

That atmosphere at that Burnley defeat was really something. Probably the most enjoyable defeat I've been at

 

[tweenster]

Brighton 2 Bristol Rovers 8
Smash and Grab - possibly the most lethal strike force in lower league football ever.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

1983 FA Cup Final Replay.

That memory held until Monday 17th April 2017, when Albion rose like a released Lebanese hostage and came out of a pronlonged often dark period.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

1983 FA Cup Final Replay.

That memory held until Monday 17th April 2017, when Albion rose like a released Lebanese hostage and came out of a pronlonged often dark period.

What a similie.

 

[scousefan]

I enjoyed the 6-1 at Liverpool. Four own goals including a classic from Dunk and a great free kick from Kazenga to make it 1-1. When he scored I was trying to stay quiet in the Liverpool end - and then 4 Brighton supporters went up right behind me. I didn’t even know they were there!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

What a similie.

Yeah yeah he had good game. Number 11 he was.

 

[Chief Wiggum]

Brighton 2 Bristol Rovers 8
Smash and Grab - possibly the most lethal strike force in lower league football ever.

Likewise. My first ever match aged 12. I’ve been in love with The Albion ever since.

 

[studio150]

Everton 4 Brighton 3 December 1980

Only about 32 of us on the terrace given the violence from the trip the season before. A thrilling game with some great goals and a typical Albion performance of promising much and just falling short.

 

[bhawoddy]

0-5 v Notts county at the goldstone. Fabulous night.......

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

0-5 v Notts county at the goldstone. Fabulous night.......

Was that the semi final of the freight rover trophy?!

 

[Brownstuff]

Proper hate losing
However remember not giving a toss when Sheff Wed done us 0-4 at the Goldstone back in 1990
Happy singing was constant throughout the game and also strangely after the game in the North Stand for a good 15 minutes odd
Can't remember why so many stayed in the ground afters

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I think Old Trafford a few weeks ago is as good as any I can think of.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

For sheer GALLOWS humour, probably the 5-1 defeat to Stoke at Withdean at the end of the 2005-06 season. The Albion players were clearly already on the beach and didn't give a shit. So in the end neither did H Block. We were singing Rooney! Rooney! when the Stoke lad got his hat-trick, we berated the linesman for a Stoke disallowed goal (we were chanting We Want Six! at the time). Icing on the cake was when Doug Loft came on as a late sub, scored with a pitiful daisy-cutter and promptly got awarded Man Of The Match. My how we chuckled

 

[DJ NOBO]

Proper hate losing
However remember not giving a toss when Sheff Wed done us 0-4 at the Goldstone back in 1990
Happy singing was constant throughout the game and also strangely after the game in the North Stand for a good 15 minutes odd
Can't remember why so many stayed in the ground afters

I think that was the game eubank came on to the pitch at half time and shadowboxed to the north . That was epic

 

[bhawoddy]

Was that the semi final of the freight rover trophy?!

Yh I think it was. Remember it was a cup game of some kjnd

 

[8049]

Brentford 4 Brighton 0
Memory is failing me a little on precisely when this was. Pretty sure it was live on ITV Digital midweek, I thought it was sometime in late 90s but an internet search shows we lost 4-0 to them away twice - in 2002 and 2003 so it must have been one of those.

Stand-out memory is us singing "4-3, we're going to win 4-3" changing to "5-4, we're going to win 5-4" without missing a beat when they scored their fourth.
What could have been a really grim night ended up being great fun thanks to the p***-taking gallows humour of Brighton fans.

 

[bhafc99]

The game when, as soon as we kicked off, Bellotti tried to take his seat in the directors’ box, thinking it might be less
noticeable then.

Cue a dozen fans sprinting across from the North, and Bellotti sharply disappearing back where he’d come from, having lasted a matter of mere seconds.

(To be honest I can’t remember who this was against, or even whether we lost and this game therefore qualifies for the thread, but - hey, we probably did - so let’s say it does!)