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1. Goldstone broke ...
(Clubs)
... sold the Goldstone Ground after removing a clause from the club’s constitution which prevented them from profiting from the sale of the ground. When this was exposed by the Brighton Evening Argus, the ...
Created on 14 November 1996
2. Yesterday’s men that embraced Tomorrow’s World – when Leatherhead hit the big time
(Stories)
... defenders. As 2,000 travelling Tanners fans saw their team soak up constant pressure at the Goldstone Ground, Kelly broke forward late in the game and rifled in the winner from 20 yards. The clearly ...
Created on 06 November 2017
3. From the archive ~ Homeless and broke: remembering Brighton’s darkest days
(Stories)
... In short, there has never been a worse time to be a Brighton fan. The nightmare began in July of last year, when the directors sold the Goldstone Ground after removing a clause from the club’s constitution ...
Created on 07 August 2017
4. Mad Man
(General)
From the gutter to the stars – the ad man who saved Brighton by Dick Knight Vision Sports, £20 Reviewed by Drew WhitworthFrom WSC 325 March 2014 Buy this book   Dick Knight, chairman of Brighton ...
Created on 11 March 2014
5. Weekly Howl 27-04-12
(2012)
... at the Goldstone Ground, their home for 95 years that had been sold against the fans' wishes. Brighton spent the next two years groundsharing with Gillingham before moving to the small athletics stadium ...
Created on 03 May 2012
6. Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Hull City 0
(Match of the month)
... r in 1997 a few days after the final game at the old Goldstone Ground. It's a grim, black and white tableau of Broken Brighton. As his wife and toddler look on, a young man kneels, head bowed in admission ...
Created on 21 December 2011
7. Track and field
(Grounds)
...  a key ingredient in the club’s emergence from the wreckage left by chairman Bill Archer in the mid-1990s. Following the sale of the Goldstone Ground, two seasons were spent playing at Gillingham in fron ...
Created on 21 May 2011
8. Weekly Howl 04-03-11
(2011)
... Foot "Following on from observations on the troubles of missing letters in advertising at football matches, it reminded me of a visit to Brighton's Goldstone Ground during Reading's 1993-94 ...
Created on 07 March 2011
9. Cup of good hope
(Europe)
... shed, and Selhurst Park and White Hart Lane were having pitch repairs (in Tottenham's case, after the London Monarchs used the ground for American Football). Instead, Spurs and Wimbledon played at the Go ...
Created on 21 November 2010
10. Mixed emotions
(Clubs)
... rose, creditors came calling and the decline was sealed by Archer’s takeover and subsequent asset-stripping. Bamber’s reign brought top-division football but no long-term stability. The crumbling Goldstone ...
Created on 21 July 2009
11. Finding a voice
(Fan culture)
... muted. Brighton fans waged a long campaign against Bill Archer and David Bellotti, after their Goldstone Ground home was sold with no replacement lined up or even planned, meaning that the Seagulls were ...
Created on 14 October 2007
12. For whom the Belle tolls
(Clubs)
Glen Wilson reports on how you could have played in the last game at Belle Vue At the final whistle in Brighton’s last game at the Goldstone Ground, in April 1997, the fans proceeded to do two things: ...
Created on 14 January 2007
13. Brighton 1 Crewe 4
(Match of the month)
... of others. The sale of the Goldstone Ground in the late 1990s was their calamity, a boardroom move welcomed by no one (except the buyers, who promptly sold it on for several times the price they paid), ...
Created on 14 October 2006
14. Leatherhead 1974-75
(As good as it got)
... defenders. As 2,000 travelling Tanners fans saw their team soak up constant pressure at the Goldstone Ground, Kelly broke forward late in the game and rifled in the winner from 20 yards. The clearly inebriated ...
Created on 14 June 2006
15. Barnet, Bournemouth, Chesterfield
(Sharp end)
... 23,000-seat stadium at Falmer, bringing a happy end to a saga that began ten years ago when former chairman Bill Archer sold the Goldstone Ground. At Chesterfield, news of the four-year jail sentence ...
Created on 14 December 2005
16. Home fixtures
(Grounds)
... have fallen prey to developers, but stadiums such as Brighton’s Goldstone Ground were demolished to make way for offices, warehouses or shops. Developers, many per­fectly respectable, have been attracted ...
Created on 14 December 2004
17. Grand designs
(Grounds)
... FC. It was to be the last ever game played at the Goldstone Ground, the Seagulls’ home for over a century. Now it’s six years on and we re­main without a permanent stadium, leaving many fans such as myself ...
Created on 14 December 2003
18. Dying in exile
(Clubs)
... Brighton had had to stay at Gillingham for any longer than we did, I don’t think we would have survived. In our final season at the Goldstone (1996-97) our average gate was around 6,000. But in the first ...
Created on 14 October 2001
19. Roy Race and poetry
(Webwatch)
... Moore. You can also enjoy Attila the Stockbroker’s moving lament upon the demise of the Goldstone Ground, Chris Robinson’s The Fookin Cup (a rarity in poetry circles – it scans and it’s funny too), and ...
Created on 14 March 2001
20. Gap years
(Clubs)
... have had to look further afield, most recently to Brentford, Southend and – since an explosive 4-4 draw at the Goldstone in 1997 – Brighton. These all function perfectly well as rivals, dogged as they ...
Created on 14 January 2001

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