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[Albion] Your memories of Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace.



Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
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Arundel
70p when I went during the period when I'd just started work, on £20 a week, £18.45 after Tax and NI, making the admission price about 4% of my weeks take home. Current starting wage per week is around £10, say £400 a week, or £20,800 a year. Which is around £360 a week take home? I have a season ticket but I guess it's about £50 to buy a one-off, so about 14% of take home, is that right Maths dudes?
 




Crispy Ambulance

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May 27, 2010
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Burgess Hill
First home game against them - August 74
Best home game 2-0 Sammy Morgan the following season (in fact my favourite ever home game)
First away - 1980
Best away - the game the OP mentioned. My 21st birthday and spent most of the game (very pissed) but digging up bits of the crumbling terrace with my docs and lobbing it at them. McShane shoulder is a close 2nd.
Worst - 5-0 with home play off 2nd.
 


Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
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Oh, memory for me was watching the 5-0 drubbing at Selhurst, with my Palace supporting Son in the home end, with a few mates, waiting for us to go out after to celebrate his 21st Birthday!!
 








Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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1986 was my fist Palace away match. 1-0 defeat. Promotion hopes all but ended that day.

First home match, I think, a 3-1 win in April 1984.
 


juliant

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Apr 4, 2011
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Northamptonshire
St Patricks day massacre for me. Managed to blag 2 tickets in the Amex box for me and my then young lad. It rained like hell that day and watching the Palace fans being kettled outside in it was a joy to behold.
 


Baldseagull

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Jan 26, 2012
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Crawley
My first game was away at Palace April 1985 - 15 years old travelled down from Wigan on my own, knew no one, stood next to a Brighton fan a couple of years older than me wearing a cream argyle cardigan and smoked a pipe. I also remember a 16 hole cherry red Doc Marten skinhead being arrested and walked past our supporters. Apart from that I don't remember too much about the game.
Favourite memory was the St Patricks day massacre was excellent.
Second favourite was the McShane header 1-0 away, that was bedlam in the stands when that went in.
Least favourite was the FFs Murray, that really hurt.

You got any ?

Saw this on the interweb, apparently it is Brighton v Palace, but before my time.




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Think my first Palace Away day was the same year as you, only memory of that day was a Brighton fan wearing those shitty espidrils straw soled canvas shoes got his foot trodden on by a Police Horse and was howling, it was the blood that makes that stick in my memory Went to the 5 penalty game, Mc Shane goal game, the 5-0 with Coppell as our manager, and other less memorable matches. Went there once when for some reason the Met had decided it was best if they had all the high risk games on one day, and they ended up shifting loads of coppers from Arsenal v Tottenham to Palace v Brighton as it was kicking off more in Selhurst.
Best memory is that first half with Murray
opening the scoring, Balogun coming on after Duffy had been sent off and scoring with his first touch, then Andone chasing down a clearance, taking a poor touch which their defender then corrected for him and Andone then tucked away.
 






Van Cleef

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Jun 17, 2023
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Does anyone remember at half time in the 5 pens game the palace groundsman walking down the pitch with a brush and paint pot and repainting the penalty spot (in what would be our 2nd half goalmouth)?
It was actually quite funny looking back.😬
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
70 Fkn p !!
An LP was £2.25. Three times the cost of a match day ticket.

Imagine paying £120 for a CD today.

I saw Genesis at the Dome for 70p a couple of years earlier. When they were unknown.

If you can buy a CD for a tenner today (you can download the content for much less for most 'new' artists), you would expect to pay a third (about £3.50) to see a new indy band at the Dome today. And yet:

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Conclusion? Tech has become insanely cheap. Human delivered live entertainment is expensive. Even when it's shit.

My 10 Mb apple (wth 5Mb RAM) cost £2,500 in 1990.......FFS!
 






wellquickwoody

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Aug 10, 2007
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First memory would be somewhere around 83-85 away at Selhurst. No clue of the score, just remember arriving by coach with THUMPING tunes banging out, us up at the windows giving it large and the occasional missile being thrown by Palace (oh the teenage/lifelong memories that were made). After the game the coaches were held back as police searched for knives after a reported stabbing of a Palace fan, never sure if this was true or not.

Year or two later at home, post match there was a standoff/confrontation between two opposing mobs in Fonthill Road. In the ensuing chaos it was almost Benny Hill like comedy to watch a Palace fan hiding in a front garden getting hit over the head with a dustbin lid as my mate discovered him!

Who said that football is too sanitised now?!
 






Mexican Seagull

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Jan 16, 2013
244
Mexico City
First game of the season on a lovely summer day with a perhaps undeserved 1-0 win with a rebuilt team including Fred Binney and Ian Mellor who scored the only goal. With Clough gone and Taylor's changes, our greatest days up to then weren't far away.
I was over for that game (from Copenhagen) , as I recall Peter Grummit played a blinder.

Worse memory was a few years later my friends had got me a ticket and I came over but it got snowed off.....
 


ExmouthExile

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Feb 11, 2005
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My first game was away at Palace April 1985 - 15 years old travelled down from Wigan on my own, knew no one, stood next to a Brighton fan a couple of years older than me wearing a cream argyle cardigan and smoked a pipe. I also remember a 16 hole cherry red Doc Marten skinhead being arrested and walked past our supporters. Apart from that I don't remember too much about the game.
I was at that game but my only memory of it was getting my scarf pinched by some palace scum at the train station after the game! I was also at 0-1 game in 2005, absolute limbs when McShane scored and I lost a necklace in the carnage, but that was made up for when Wayne Henderson threw his gloves into the crowd at the end I caught one of them, still have it to this day.
 


Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012
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20th November 2005, Theatre of trees, I had been out the night before for my birthday and had one of the worst hangovers I've ever suffered. I then had to sit through us getting beaten 2-3 by that lot.
Awful day from start to finish.
 


Silverhatch

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Feb 23, 2009
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Preston Park
1978 - away at Selhurst Park, about 45 minutes before KO. Big mob of Albion fans assembling on the higher level of terracing in the White Horse Road end when from one of the corners a gang of 20-25 skinheads come trooping across the lower terrace...bleached jeans, flight jackets and DMs, but no scarves. There were no skinheads in Brighton at the time and so en-masse about 200 Albion come pouring down the terrace kicking and punching as the skinheads fled onto the pitch, one of them going head-over-heels with his big cherry red DMs up in the air (for younger readers I should explain that there was virtually no attempt at segregation in those days, and so this type of scenario was a regular occurence. You had to keep your eyes and ears open to who you might be standing next to).
After said incident there was a further incursion by Palace fans who stormed the turnstiles (they do have previous) and there was the obligatory ‘tearing lumps out of each other’ at the top and bottom of the WHLane end. Over 34,000 at Selhurst that day and Hilaire ran riot.
 




rebel51

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Jan 4, 2021
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West sussex
First memory would be somewhere around 83-85 away at Selhurst. No clue of the score, just remember arriving by coach with THUMPING tunes banging out, us up at the windows giving it large and the occasional missile being thrown by Palace (oh the teenage/lifelong memories that were made). After the game the coaches were held back as police searched for knives after a reported stabbing of a Palace fan, never sure if this was true or not.

Year or two later at home, post match there was a standoff/confrontation between two opposing mobs in Fonthill Road. In the ensuing chaos it was almost Benny Hill like comedy to watch a Palace fan hiding in a front garden getting hit over the head with a dustbin lid as my mate discovered him!

Who said that football is too sanitised now?!
Remember that, was it Neil smilie scoring a blinding goal for us? I think it was 84/85. I remember the fighting in the seats during the game too.
 


smudge

Up the Albion!
Jul 8, 2003
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On the ocean wave
Loads of memories.
We used to meet up at Haywards Heath, I was with my mates from Lewes in the late 70's early 80's. Groups from all over Sussex would meet at the Burrell Arms before all getting on the train together. 12 coaches of Albion with a few beers inside them. We'd get off at East Croydon then on the next train to Norwood Jct. There'd be a bit of running about, then our little group used to go down a pub in Norwood High St called The Albion, (why wouldn't you?).
It was all a bit lively & quite exciting back then, but now with hindsight, probably a bit daft. Went up for a pre season friendly once early 80's, (great idea putting that on). That was a bit of a day as it we had half the Holmsdale End right next to their lot. Ejected twice that day, not bragging about it at all, just a fact.
So I lived through the best/worst of it. These lot in the black hoodies now just make me shake my head with a resigned laugh these days.
By the way, I'm in no way condoning anything that went on back then, it's just the way it was.
 


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