[Albion] Why this season won't be my last

[Weststander]

Tart.

 

[dazzer6666]

OP is on my ignore list, can’t read it

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Was that Barrow game the one where Kit Napier scored directly from a corner, North Stand end?

Yes (I saw him do that and it may well have been that game). I was behind the south stand goal.

I haven't contacted your mate yet - a job for later in the week

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But does it take a six hour round trip?

4-5.

 

[LamieRobertson]

My first game was Barrow, in division 3, 1969. On and off, I went to games. Then the exile years at Gillingham, and I found I was going to all the home games. The Mailing List. NSC. And then...loads of the aways. On and off, with my son with me....and then Falmer. I love the drive through the Kent and Sussex villages reminds me of who and what I am. And then, the Amex, the faces, the match.....the EPL. And the lovely drive home.

Till I'm too decrepit (whence the tellybox will do me) I'll be there. I ****ing love it.

Plucks Gutter

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

OP is on my ignore list, can’t read it

Liar!

 

[AmexRuislip]

My first game was Barrow, in division 3, 1969. On and off, I went to games. Then the exile years at Gillingham, and I found I was going to all the home games. The Mailing List. NSC. And then...loads of the aways. On and off, with my son with me....and then Falmer. I love the drive through the Kent and Sussex villages. Reminds me of who and what I am. And then, the Amex, the faces, the match.....the EPL. And the lovely drive home.

Till I'm too decrepit (whence the tellybox will do me) I'll be there. I ****ing love it.

You're a beacon for us all Mike

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Yes (I saw him do that and it may well have been that game). I was behind the south stand goal.

I haven't contacted your mate yet - a job for later in the week

He took the corner from the chicken run end and it sailed over the goalies head into the top far corner of the net. Hope you get some sound advice, he is a good guy.

 

[Knotty]

My first game was Barrow, in division 3, 1969. On and off, I went to games. Then the exile years at Gillingham, and I found I was going to all the home games. The Mailing List. NSC. And then...loads of the aways. On and off, with my son with me....and then Falmer. I love the drive through the Kent and Sussex villages. Reminds me of who and what I am. And then, the Amex, the faces, the match.....the EPL. And the lovely drive home.

Till I'm too decrepit (whence the tellybox will do me) I'll be there. I ****ing love it.

My story is almost identical to yours. Started going to matches in 1968 and I live in Canterbury! Can’t imagine not doing it. My son is 37 and has been going with me since he was 4.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You're a beacon for us all Mike

A smouldering ruin more like.

This was a bit of an Ernest-style rebuke thread, in case you didn't notice. Not as personal or vindictive as an Ernest thread, mind. More directed at the sentiment rather than the poster, who is someone for whom I have pleny of time.

It had to be done though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My story is almost identical to yours. Started going to matches in 1968 and I live in Canterbury! Can’t imagine not doing it. My son is 37 and has been going with me since he was 4.

69, Faversham, 36 and 4.

Spooky!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He took the corner from the chicken run end and it sailed over the goalies head into the top far corner of the net. Hope you get some sound advice, he is a good guy.

Just checked - that was against Bury.

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondatabase/the-record-setting-king-kit-napier/

Lots of the stuff in this item are now wrong....goalscoring record (Murray?), number of goals scored in debut (Freeman?)...

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Just checked - that was against Bury.

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondatabase/the-record-setting-king-kit-napier/

Lots of the stuff in this item are now wrong....goalscoring record (Murray?), number of goals scored in debut (Freeman?)...

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[Eeyore]

My first game was Barrow, in division 3, 1969. On and off, I went to games. Then the exile years at Gillingham, and I found I was going to all the home games. The Mailing List. NSC. And then...loads of the aways. On and off, with my son with me....and then Falmer. I love the drive through the Kent and Sussex villages. Reminds me of who and what I am. And then, the Amex, the faces, the match.....the EPL. And the lovely drive home.

Till I'm too decrepit (whence the tellybox will do me) I'll be there. I ****ing love it.

I would have gone, but I was in the baby unit of Frimley Hospital having just joined humankind. Looks like a 4-1 win.

So you've been going as long as I've been here. Respect.

Were you living locally then ?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I would have gone, but I was in the baby unit of Frimley Hospital having just joined humankind. Looks like a 4-1 win.

So you've been going as long as I've been here. Respect.

Were you living locally then ?

Yep. Portslade. From age 11 (and with our brothers age 7 and 8) me and Andy Fryer (no longer of this parish, now a yankee doodle dandy) walked from Foredown Drive to the Goldstone and back. Bracing.

Deffo a 4-1 win.

There are far older posters on NSC than me. Some still attend. I wonder who the oldest regular (or even occasional, but continuing) poster might be? Step forward [MENTION=37204]the_old_man[/MENTION] and [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] and [MENTION=14365]Thunder Bolt[/MENTION]?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yep. Portslade. From age 11 (and with our brothers age 7 and 8) me and Andy Fryer (no longer of this parish, now a yankee doodle dandy) walked from Foredown Drive to the Goldstone and back. Bracing.

Deffo a 4-1 win.

There are far older posters on NSC than me. Some still attend. I wonder who the oldest regular (or even occasional, but continuing) poster might be? Step forward [MENTION=37204]the_old_man[/MENTION] and [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] and [MENTION=14365]Thunder Bolt[/MENTION]?

I’m fairly sure there are a couple on here who started watching in the fifties. Mine was 1961.

 

[Wardy's twin]

180 mile round trip isn't putting me off. UTA

is that from Preston Park via Ipswich?

 

[Poyningsgull]

I’m fairly sure there are a couple on here who started watching in the fifties. Mine was 1961.

1958 for me.

 

[GT49er]

Yep. Portslade. From age 11 (and with our brothers age 7 and 8) me and Andy Fryer (no longer of this parish, now a yankee doodle dandy) walked from Foredown Drive to the Goldstone and back. Bracing.

Deffo a 4-1 win.

There are far older posters on NSC than me. Some still attend. I wonder who the oldest regular (or even occasional, but continuing) poster might be? Step forward [MENTION=37204]the_old_man[/MENTION] and [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] and [MENTION=14365]Thunder Bolt[/MENTION]?

Follower since the age of eight - my local club then, town where I was born (in the workhouse, due to a deadly outbreak of diptheria(sp) in the maternity wards - could wind my mum up about that to her dying day), visited relatives in or around Brighton but none still with us now, but never a regular attender - host of reasons at different times. For reasons of uncertain health on a day to day basis and a long journey, I don't do booking in advance - now I only ever see the Albion at away matches relatively near to me where I can turn up on the day, ask nicely to be let in and sit on my hands among the home crowd.

If Uncle Tony ever gets to build his hotel by the ground, I might splash out and treat myself to a weekend away.....oh, and HWT, enough of this far older malarkey. I'd hate to have to put you on ignore.......................

 

[B-right-on]

1958 for me.