[Albion] Your favourite and most memorable Albion FA Cup ties since 1983?

[Deadly Danson]

This coming Saturday...

 

[Eeyore]

There’s a coincidence we went in a cortina too but I’m not Bradley Gibbs

I'm Bradley Gibbs and so is my wife.

 

[oldboyroy]

The Liverpool match a year later in 1984

Oh, and the Peterborough United away match in 1986. My toes are still thawing out.

Same here. That Peterborough game on seagull coach and the snow.

 

[vegster]

Possibly my favourite two minutes of football ever. That anticipatory roar when Connor was put through still gives me goosebumps.



Youngsters have no idea what 'limbs' mean.

And today, kick-off would have been delayed by five minutes whilst they over-celebrated and then a long VAR check for offside.....

This for me too. I could only get tickets in the SW stand but, when Terry Connor got put through we were in line of his run towards the Liverpool goal. When he curled it in the SW could see he had scored before it hit the back of the net!

 

[Brovion]

Same here. That Peterborough game on seagull coach and the snow.

Yes, I'm going to say Peterborough. Not really my out-and-out favourite, (I can't pick one but the Liverpool victories were good), but why do so many of us think it was memorable, even good? By no stretch of the imagination can Peterborough away be described as a 'glamour' fixture (they were in the division below us as well iirc), we didn't win and the weather was appalling - so what is it? We can't even say "Well it was 'proper' football with terraces", as it was the 80s and all games were still 'proper' football with terraces as the Taylor Report hadn't been implemented yet.

To try and answer my own question I think because it was a bit of a throwback. There was a huge away following, the sort we hadn't really seen since 1979, (barring Highbury in 1983), and there was a real connect between the players and the fans. And the red shirts. I remember we wore them at Hull as well even though there was no colour clash between our blue and their yellow. (This was in the days before clubs were trying to sell us three different shirts a season).

 

[Since1982]

The quarter final in 1986 at home to Southampton. The semi final was due to be played on the 5th April which was my wedding day so I confess to feeling a little relieved when we lost.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Indeed, and funny enough the other one that came straight to mind was the previous round away at Northampton

The sad part being that neither of these games have television footage, so the Albion youth of today will never be able to marvel at Mr Nelson’s goal.


If I had to pick one, it would probably be the Liverpool replay, shown on Sportsnight, and the anticipation and excitement at half time of Extra Time when we were 2-1 up.

Unfortunately within 4 short years the wheels had come off and we would lose the Goldstone forever.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Same here. That Peterborough game on seagull coach and the snow.

The Seagulls Special train for me, great day. As was Liverpool 1991 and Nelson at Brentford 1987. Hull away prior to Peterborough was fun, we basked in the sun and their fans shivered in the shade on two sides of the ground.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Possibly my favourite two minutes of football ever. That anticipatory roar when Connor was put through still gives me goosebumps.



Youngsters have no idea what 'limbs' mean.

And today, kick-off would have been delayed by five minutes whilst they over-celebrated and then a long VAR check for offside.....

Chris Kaplan

 

[chaileyjem]

I loved Will Buckley's goal v Newcastle in 2012. The start of something.

Brighton and Hove Albion 1-0 Newcastle United | FA Cup match report

Will Buckley scored a great breakaway goal for Championship side Brighton to knock Premier League Newcastle out of the FA Cup

www.theguardian.com

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Loved the 1987-1988 cup run
Brentford, Northampton, Bournemouth and Arsenal.
Peterborough was great home and away.
Liverpool everytime we play them, even the replay in 1991 was a great game.

 

[chaileyjem]

And come to that Ulloa's goal v Arsenal in 2013 was also a sign of things to come - or was he offside ? Great cross from Ashley Barnes.

 

[Flounce]

Anfield in 91 when we came back from 2-0!
Our end went apesh*t!

The FG with Barnes in his pocket and a goal from Byrne on his comeback from injury game to go with a Small goal? What a strike pair those two were. A definite high spot of Albion Cup games for me.

 

[Flounce]

I loved Will Buckley's goal v Newcastle in 2012. The start of something.

Brighton and Hove Albion 1-0 Newcastle United | FA Cup match report

Will Buckley scored a great breakaway goal for Championship side Brighton to knock Premier League Newcastle out of the FA Cup

www.theguardian.com

I think that was the game that a Newcastle fan asked us if Spanish Dave (?) was still rolling around the next morning, after going down and making an absolute meal of a Newcastle foul

 

[Bodian]

The sad part being that neither of these games have television footage, so the Albion youth of today will never be able to marvel at Mr Nelson’s goal.

Probably a good thing. I suspect that some of it was the odd niggle of the game, big away crowd, where we were at and so on. If we saw the goal on telly now, we might not think it was as great as we all remember. Some things are best left in our memories only!