{"id":5438,"date":"2017-04-17T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2017-04-17T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:02:47","slug":"classic-programs-brighton-hove-albion-division-one-1979-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/classic-programs-brighton-hove-albion-division-one-1979-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Programs: Brighton &#038; Hove Albion Division One, 1979-83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, who have earned a return trip to the pinnacle of English football &#8212; the Premier League &#8212; after more than three decades away. To date the Seagulls have spent just four seasons out of\u00a0almost 90 in their existence in the top tier of football. Those four came consecutively from the 1979-80 through 1982-83, in the old First Division.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate Brighton&#8217;s triumphant return to the top, let&#8217;s look at a handful of home programs from their prior stay there:<\/p>\n<h2>1979-80 (37 points, 16th place)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1979-80\/03-01_ccfc-bha.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/1979-80\/images\/english-football-program_1980-03-01_ccfc-bha.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton &amp; Hove Albion vs. Coventry City (March 1, 1980)\" width=\"600\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vs. Coventry City (March 1, 1980)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>1980-81 (35 points, 19th place)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1980-81\/01-31_thfc-bha.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/1980-81\/images\/english-football-program_1981-01-31_thfc-bha.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton &amp; Hove Albion vs. Tottenham Hotspur (January 31, 1981)\" width=\"600\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vs. Tottenham Hotspur (January 31, 1981)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>1981-82 (52 points, 13th place)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1981-82\/10-31_scfc-bha.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/1981-82\/images\/english-football-program_1981-10-31_scfc-bha.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton &amp; Hove Albion vs. Stoke City (October 31, 1981)\" width=\"600\" height=\"840\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vs. Stoke City (October 31, 1981)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>1982-83 (40 points, 22nd place &#8211; relegated)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/english-football\/seasons\/1982-83\/11-27_bha-nocfc.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=english-football\/seasons\/1982-83\/images\/english-football-program_1982-11-27_bha-nocfc.jpg\" alt=\"Brighton &amp; Hove Albion vs. Notts County (November 27, 1982)\" width=\"600\" height=\"840\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">vs. Notts County (November 27, 1982)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Random Fun Facts<\/h2>\n<p>The last time Brighton Hove &amp; Albion won a First Division match (April 23, 1983):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The #1 song in the UK was &#8220;Let&#8217;s Dance&#8221; by David Bowie. The #1 song in America was &#8220;Come on Eileen&#8221; by Dexys Midnight Runners.<\/li>\n<li>The #1 movie in America was <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pLydEI\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Flashdance<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Thatcher was nearing the end of her first term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Ronald Reagan was in the middle of his first term as President of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>The compact disc player had been for sale in the UK since March.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lotus 1-2-3<\/em>\u00a0for IBM-PC compatible computers was less than three months old in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0one pound (\u00a31) coin had just been introduced in England and Wales.<\/li>\n<li>Two months earlier the final episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pbEddN\" target=\"_blank\"><i>M*A*S*H<\/i><\/a> aired in the U.S., setting a new record for most-watched television broadcast in American history.<\/li>\n<li>Seat belt use for drivers and front seat passengers in the UK had been mandatory for less than two months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, who have earned a return trip to the pinnacle of English football &#8212; the Premier League &#8212; after more than three decades away. To date the Seagulls have spent just four seasons out of\u00a0almost 90 in their existence in the top tier of football. Those four&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[55,551,140,423,14],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1980s","tag-brighton-hove-albion","tag-english-football","tag-first-division","tag-programs","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5445,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/5445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}