Your best memory of the Goldstone Ground.

[Boys 9d]

The match against Watford when we were became the last ever Champions of Division Three South and gained our first promotion. Five goals from Adrian Thorne.
I also remember in those early days the prominent hollow near the SE corner flag which in later years was levelled off.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I don't have a best memory, but one I'm sure we'll all remember forever, walking down Old Shoreham Road and seeing the floodlights over the North Stand bowed down towards the pitch, I miss that sight

Good call, seeing the floodlights even on a non match day was always a good sight.

 

[AmexRuislip]

I have so many....because I am old.
Probably just being lucky enough to play on the pitch.

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?295028-Goldstone-Northstand-memories

 

[Perfidious Albion]

"as much as it has memories it was a dump"

No way! Football was like that then - it was home, our temple & we loved it. I still find myself calling The Amex Goldstone in unguarded (and senior) moments. My first game, a midweek night , Alan Gilliver scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 victory over Halifax Town and I was hooked.

The sounds, sights and smells live on for me, The greasy burger stands, hot bovril at half time, the pungent aroma of tobacco smoke from the crowd and wintergreen from the players if you stood near the West Stand tunnel. That character who used to stand at the top of the East Terrace and shout in a booming voice "Wakey Wakey!" when the game got quiet ........Ah, nostalgia is great ...

 

[Seagull]

BHA 2 Liverpool 0 in the 1984 FA Cup, Deano's free kick vs Ipswich 91, Fans Utd - Real Madrid want Archer out, beating Cardiff & Peterborough 5-0 in the mid 70s, Storer!, the gates clanking shut behind us as we squeezed in for 2-1 v Blackpool in 1978, even 2-3 re Darlo, 9 points adrift and sitting in the OSR afterwards in 96 in a weird way, they are all up there.

But inviting my 2 school friends who'd never been, a pre match picnic made by my Mum on the East Terrace, standing on wooden boxes my Dad had made, thinking we'd lost, then witnessing the ultimate redemption comeback with two goals from super sub ginger prince Eric Potts in the last 5 mins to beat Sunderland 2-1 is my favourite. Div 2, 1978

 

[Working class pride]

Not the best memory, but right for today, the game after Hillsborough. The North Stand sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" as a mark of respect. We had Watford I think.

 

[jevs]

The whole of the 1976-77 season ending in the 3-2 win against Sheff Weds

The smell of pipe tobacco which will stay with me for ever

 

[Working class pride]

Lots of wins over Palace and a great FA Cup win over Pompey. Arsenal in the Cup and seeing a certain Chief Executive being chased out of the ground were pretty memorable. I'm not sure if the York game was a favourite memory or a worse memory. Very proud to be a Brighton fan that day. The press didnt know what to say.

 

[maltaseagull]

Late 70s night games. Big crowds, amazing atmosphere. Great Days. 1965-65 was pretty special too.

 

[origigull]

Not so much memories of games as there are loads of highlights as well as lowlights. But memories of going with my late dad are the most precious.

It has to be this. I started in the Chicken Run with my dad 1964-65, always with a flask of hot something (when it was freezing there was a little warmer added). I moved to the North in my teens, then later the South, then south-west, but near the end of the Goldstone I was back with my dad in the Chicken Run. It was a shame my dad never saw the Amex, he would have loved it.

 

[Working class pride]

It has to be this. I started in the Chicken Run with my dad 1964-65, always with a flask of hot something (when it was freezing there was a little warmer added). I moved to the North in my teens, then later the South, then south-west, but near the end of the Goldstone I was back with my dad in the Chicken Run. It was a shame my dad never saw the Amex, he would have loved it.

Probably the best post I have ever read on NSC. This is what the Albion and all football clubs are about.

 

[m20gull]

These for me.

And me

 

[Big G]

The smell of pipe smoke from the seating in West stand when I sat with my Dad in there!

Never forget!

 

[Ding Dong !]

For me must be the first game I ever saw the Albion.

October 1981. Brighton 3 -3 Liverpool

 

[Silk]

For me must be the first game I ever saw the Albion.

October 1981. Brighton 3 -3 Liverpool

Good game. We were 3-1 down with around ten minutes left. My old man left early for a crepe and missed our two late goals.

 

[geodavies]

4-1 v Millwall 91 playoff semi. Slightly better result than the same fixture last season.

Same