Your First BHAFC game

[Frutos]

August 21st 1993

Hartlepool Utd

1-1

 

[Simon Morgan]

Crewe Alexandra at home 2-2 96/97

 

[Nobby's Betamax Video]

Courtesy of an Everton website:-

Brighton 0 - 0 Everton
Goldstone Ground
Saturday 3 May 1980
1979-80 - Football League Division 1
21,204

(Managers)
A Mullery G Lee

G Moseley G Wood
J Gregory J Gidman
G Williams J Bailey
(P Sayer)
B Horton B Wright
S Foster M Lyons
P Suddaby T Ross
N McNab P Eastoe
P Ward G Stanley
R Clarke B Latchford (G Sharp)
M Lawrenson A Hartford
G Ryan J McBride

For some reason, I always thought we lost 0-1 with Latchford scoring (I was only 9). What a pleasant surprise!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Penultimate game before the Goldstone was brought down in '97, was 13 years old.

 

[El Turi]

Bournemouth, January 1994, 3-3.

 

[Seagulltonian]

Courtesy of an Everton website:-

Brighton 0 - 0 Everton
Goldstone Ground
Saturday 3 May 1980
1979-80 - Football League Division 1
21,204

(Managers)
A Mullery G Lee

G Moseley G Wood
J Gregory J Gidman
G Williams J Bailey
(P Sayer)
B Horton B Wright
S Foster M Lyons
P Suddaby T Ross
N McNab P Eastoe
P Ward G Stanley
R Clarke B Latchford (G Sharp)
M Lawrenson A Hartford
G Ryan J McBride

For some reason, I always thought we lost 0-1 with Latchford scoring (I was only 9). What a pleasant surprise!

Wasn't the first match I went to. But I can remember being disappointed by this match, because it was the last game of the season, and both teams were mid-table with nothing really to play for. I was hoping it was going to be an exciting end-to-end attacking 6 - 5 win to the Albion, but it wasn't

 

[vulture]

sept 79 just turned 7 lost 4 nil to gunners

 

[Bry Nylon]

Posted this before. Just dredged it up from the archives via the search facility...

I was lucky enough to be taken to my first Albion game by my Dad too, at the Goldstone back in mid-70s, for my 7th birthday treat.
To be honest I can recall virtually NOTHING about the game itself, but was absolutely bewitched by the big crowd, the atmosphere, the flood lights fizzing through the drizzzle and the sea-mist at half-time and bathing the pitch in bright white light; the chanting and singing; the ear splitting roar that echoed around the rafters in the West Stand when Brighton scored and watching the sea of people behind the goal on the (then) uncovered north stand tumbling down the terracing and lobbing bog rolls over the cross bar.
SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING - I wasn't quite sure what, exactly - but all that mattered that I was THERE. And that I wanted to go again and again and again. Hooked.

All followed by a brisk walk across Hove Park after the game past lines of mental police dogs and back into the Opel Manta (cool 70's car, Dad!) in time for Sports Report on Radio 2 and liver & bacon casserole when we got home.
Sadly, they don't make birthdays like that anymore ....

PS, it was 21st Feb, 1976

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Halifax Town
F Binney

An occasion shared by 13,685 others.

 

[nicko31]

Palace Boxing day

3-2 on Boxing 1980 at the Goldstone at the back of North Stand sitting on the metal rail (thanks for taking me Dad!!), crowd 27,500 some were locked out...

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Liverpool at the Goldstone, 1981

3-3

.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I f***ing LOVE this football club.

.

 

[Hunting 784561]

Good Friday, March 1970

BHA FC v Reading Fc.

We won.

32,000+ in crowd

Marvelous scenes

Seems like a long time ago...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

(then) uncovered north stand

Blimey. Do you need some help up and down the drainpipe?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

3-2 on Boxing 1980 at the Goldstone at the back of North Stand sitting on the metal rail (thanks for taking me Dad!!), crowd 27,500 some were locked out...

Lovely stuff! Nice one, Sully.

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[Smithy]

1991 play-off final against Notts County.

Tommy Johnson scored twice for Notts.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Boxing day 1967 Vs Gillingham (aged 7)
Brighton 3 - 0 Pikeys

and I've got a programme now too ...

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

The Wizard - usually so vocal on this site ...
Conspicuous by his absence on this thread.
Surely it cannot be that he has never been to a live Albion game?
C'mon, join in the fun Wiz.

** awaits barrage of abuse and personal insults from The Wizard **

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

First game that I can remember who we played, was in 1954 when we beat Tonbridge. I think the score was 5 - 0 but I'm quite happy to be corrected.

I know I went to earlier games, 52-53 season, but can't remember who we played.

Thats because you were excited about the birth of your little brother

 

[Gerbil]

4-0 V Shewsbury- the season we won div 3.
Hart got 2 and so did Zamora i think.

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

1958 I think. 1-1 draw v Bristol Rovers. Both sides missed a pen - ours hit the bar and theirs hit the roof of the north stand. I got a sore bum sitting on the barrier.