Withdean years

[tinycowboy]

Don't forget the state-of-the-art club shop...

 

[Marc1901]

Don't forget these GOONS...

My ginger mop haha. Glad to say it's not like that anymore!

 

[surrey jim]

The women doing their keep fit classes in the building in the northern corner. Who closed the curtains? Sometimes more entertaining than the football.

Sometimes? Thought it was always!

 

[Albion_Dave]

The third degree burns when the sun was out.

 

[Marc1901]

Sitting in the South Stand on a nice hot summers day freezing because of the shade..

 

[Leighgull]

My ginger mop haha. Glad to say it's not like that anymore!

Is that you? Front row...third from left?

 

[MrShaun15]

Aaaahh, Withdean, illegal parking just 5 minutes from the ground, the inability to buy a pint if you arrived too late and The Sportsman was full, chips, continual downpours and the away fans watching from what seemed like Shoreham!

and... PROGRAMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

 

[Conkers]

"Where's you get your haircut? Pound shop, pound shop!"

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Ice cream van.

Chips.

And after the man city game seeing a motorised wheelchair on the pitch.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Seeing the stewards pull a man's (artificial) leg off in H Block

 

[Dave the OAP]

Don't forget these GOONS...

I can see meeeee there...second row, third from the right.

Lol

 

[Mr Smggles]

The man with the Withdean Wager Board.

I genuinely miss the place, its where I fell in love with football and The Albion.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

the man with the withdean wager board.

I genuinely miss the place, its where i fell in love with football and the albion.

"get that bloody board down!"

 

[Thunder Bolt]

"Where's you get your haircut? Pound shop, pound shop!"

Size 16 you're having a laugh.

 

[timco]

The Album still has all the pictures from the Withdean years on site going nowhere staying there for a long time to come as a photo archive. One of the first things I did most games was to go around the stadium photographing the whole crowd.

The Album is sorted into years and then games, did not get to all games had a big gap in the middle when I was webbed up with a lass in Norfolk so all spare time was there but the first and last games are there.

I always refer to Withdean as the caravan we lived in while our new home was being built, I know many did not like the place but I have fond memories of it.

The early years was film so I had to select a few images to scan in later it was all digital making it easier to put everything online.

http://www.albionalbum.co.uk/teams/mansfield/07_08_1999/index.shtml

 

[Marc1901]

Is that you? Front row...third from left?

Na, middleish with the grey jacket type thingy on next to my mate in a blue hoodie..

 

[Dave the OAP]

Beeney, tom hark, yorkie, Ned, lord and lady Bracknell, et al in that photo.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Bloke with rattle and potty mouth son..twinkle....

 

[smeg]

Ahhh Withdean


It was shit

Spot on Why the nostalgia? It was awful and made our club a laughing stock. Don't get me wrong compared to going to Gillingham for a home game it was brilliant. Soon wore off for me though

 

[Return of the Rev]

spot on why the nostalgia? It was awful and made our club a laughing stock. Don't get me wrong compared to going to gillingham for a home game it was brilliant. Soon wore off for me though

preferred going to gillingham tbh