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| Date | Versus | H/A | Score | Scorers | Position | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/8/99 | Mansfield | H | W 6-0 | Freeman 3, Thomas, Newhouse 2 | 1st! | Well.... what can you say? First game back home after two years in exile and we hit six!! Unbelievable. If that isn't a statement of intent to the rest of this league what is? Long may it continue!! |
| 14/8/99 | Leyton Orient | A | W 2-1 | Crosby, Rogers | 1st | Finally, after years of sour defeats we beat the Orient at their place. And didn't it upset them. What a start to the season. |
| 21/8/99 | Torquay Utd | H | L 0-1 | 6th | Huh! You get all excited then an inspired display from a 41-year old goalie (Neville Southall) spoils it. | |
| 28/8/99 | Darlington | A | D 1-1 | Hart | 9th | A game I attended. Darlington's first dropped points and goal against of the season. It should have been more, we were the better team until having a player sent off after 30 minutes. We hung out well for the draw, with 11 men we'd have won I think. |
| 31/8/99 | Hull C | H | W 3-0 | Watson, Freeman (pen), Crosby | 6th | |
| 5/9/99 | Plymouth A | A | D 3-3 | Freeman, Oatway 2 | 7th | A couple of high-scoring games, at least we're putting the ball in the net, though the defending at the Plymouth game was apparently abysmal. |
| 11/9/99 | Halifax T | A | L 1-2 | Freeman (pen) | 10th | The words 'false dawn' are coming to mind... this was a sickening result, losing to a last minute goal, a frailty all too obvious last season and not gone this, it seems. We should have got a point, we got nothing, and that's not good enough. |
| 18/9/99 | Chester C | H | L 2-3 | Hart, Cullip | 11th | Another last-minute goal brings defeat once more in a match of woeful finishing and defending. It's now the first two weeks that look like the aberration, not recent defeats.... |
| 25/9/99 | Cheltenham T | H | W 1-0 | Rogers | 8th | Albion's first ever league match against Cheltenham and this time we get the last-minute goal, a welcome win after some mediocre displays. |
| 2/10/99 | Peterborough U | A | D 0-0 | 10th | ||
| 9/10/99 | Carlisle U | A | W 1-0 | Aspinall | 6th | Albion utterly dominated this game but have only a single goal to show for it... ah, who cares. We won! |
| 16/10/99 | York C | H | L 0-1 | 11th | AAARGHH! Another last-minute goal! Play 90 minutes, you bunch of losers..... sorry, this one was really annoying. | |
| 19/10/99 | Shrewsbury T | H | W 1-0 | Hart | 8th | More low scoring, this time in the 3rd minute instead of the 90th - but another win. |
| 23/10/99 | Cheltenham T | A | D 0-0 | 7th | What happened to all the goals? | |
| 2/11/99 | Southend U | A | L 1-2 | Watson | 11th | Another late goal causes yet another defeat. |
| 6/11/99 | Hartlepool U | H | W 1-0 | Campbell | 9th | We keep picking up points and trundling along in upper-mid-table, but we haven't scored two in a match since the 18th September. |
| 14/11/99 | Macclesfield T | A | D 1-1 | Mayo | 11th | |
| 23/11/99 | Lincoln C | H | D 2-2 | Oatway, Rogers | 11th | |
| 27/11/99 | Northampton T | H | L 1-3 | Aspinall | 12th | Two poor results at home dump us down to our lowest position of the season. The first should have been a win, the second was a convincing defeat. |
| 10/12/99 | Rochdale | H | L 3-4 | Aspinall, Cullip, Hart | 15th | Further troubles at home, dodgy defending leads to another defeat and we're now firmly rooted in the bottom half of the table. |
| 18/12/199 | Swansea C | A | L 0-2 | 15th | ||
| 26/12/99 | Barnet | H | D 1-1 | Watson | 15th | Good to get a point against the league leaders, I suppose, but we haven't won since the 6th November. |
| 28/12/99 | Rotherham U | A | W 3-1 | Freeman, Oatway, Rogers | 15th | The Albion's last match of the millennium - and a superb team performance sees them beat high-flying Rotherham. |
| 3/1/00 | Exeter C | H | W 4-2 | Freeman, Pinamonte 2, Rogers | 13th | Starting the new year as they finish the old - first back-to-back wins since the first two games of the season. Darren Freeman scores the first goal of the millennium in English professional football! |
| 8/1/00 | Rochdale | A | L 0-1 | 14th | ||
| 15/1/00 | Leyton Orient | H | L 0-1 | 14th | So much for the run.... | |
| 22/1/00 | Torquay U | A | D 0-0 | 14th | ... and so much for goalscoring, it seems. That's 386 minutes without one. | |
| 29/1/00 | Darlington | H | D 1-1 | Hart | 16th | A goal! |
| 1/2/00 | Mansfield T | A | L 0-1 | 16th | Getting a player sent off after 4 minutes never helps the situation... the slump continues. | |
| 5/2/00 | Hull C | A | L 0-2 | 17th | ...and continues... | |
| 12/2/00 | Plymouth A | H | D 1-1 | Zamora | 18th | ...(yawn)... |
| 19/2/00 | Northampton T | A | L 0-1 | 18th | ||
| 26/2/00 | Chester C | A | W 7-1 | Zamora 3 (inc. 1 pen), McPherson, Brooker, Freeman, Rogers | 18th | Well if you're going to break a bad run, not to mention score for the first time away from home in weeks, that is the way to do it! OK, Chester were bottom but you still need to win these games: Chester's biggest ever home defeat and Albion's biggest away win in 70 years! A one-off? Maybe - but who cares...... |
| 4/3/00 | Halifax T | H | W 2-1 | Zamora 2 | 17th | Two more goals for on-loan Zamora takes his total to 6 in the 4 games he's played for us as the Albion come from behind in a match of three dismissals. |
| 7/3/00 | Hartlepool U | A | D 0-0 | 16th | ||
| 11/3/00 | Southend U | H | W 1-0 | Hart | 15th | On the right end of a 90th minute goal for a change - this has become the best run of the season! |
| 18/3/00 | Lincoln C | A | W 3-1 | Freeman, Rogers 2 | Sorry for the lack of league positions or a few games but I couldn't access the website. Anyway, things just kept getting better and better.... | |
| 21/3/00 | Macclesfield T | H | W 5-2 | Hart, Freeman 2 (incl. 1 pen.), Ramsay 2 | ||
| 25/3/00 | Barnet | A | W 1-0 | Hart | ||
| 1/4/00 | Swansea C | H | D 1-1 | Hart | ||
| 8/4/00 | Exeter C | A | D 0-0 | 12th | ...until these two draws dent what was becoming a superbly-timed run for the play-offs. Looks like we're too far off the pace now - but it bodes well for next year (hang on, didn't we say that last year?) | |
| 15/4/00 | Rotherham U | H | D 1-1 | Watson | ||
| 22/4/00 | York C | A | D 0-0 | That's it - we can't make the play-offs any more. | ||
| 26/4/00 | Peterborough U | H | D 0-0 | |||
| 29/4/00 | Shrewsbury T | A | W 2-1 | Brooker, Ling | A highly-charged game. Shrewsbury could have got relegated today but the failure of Carlisle and Chester to win keeps them up despite Albion's victory. Albion, comfortably mid-table now, are having a say in the relegation from the league nevertheless. Also 13 games unbeaten. | |
| 6/5/00 | Carlisle U | H | W 1-0 | Crosby | 11th | And that's the lot: Carlisle still stay up despite this, Shrewsbury save themselves and all we do is manage to go the last 14 games unbeaten. If only they'd played like this all the way through.... still, there is the football fan's eternal cry - "next year!" |
| Date | Versus | H/A | Score | Scorers | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30/10/99 | Peterborough U | A | D 1-1 | Freeman | |
| 9/11/99 | Peterborough U (replay) | H | W 3-0 | Rogers, Carr, Mayo | An excellent win against the team top of division 3! Cup wins are rare - it's good to savour (and to score some goals again!) |
| 20/11/99 | Plymouth A | A | D 0-0 | The Great Escape - down to 9 men with 15 minutes left we hang on for a draw! | |
| 30/11/99 | Plymouth A (replay) | H | L 1-2 | own goal | ...but not a win in the replay. |
| Date | Versus | H/A | Score | Scorers | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/8/99 | Gillingham | H | L 0-2 | A defeat, disappointing after the good start to the league - but promotion is the aim this year... | |
| 24/8/99 | Gillingham | A | L 0-2 | Ah well, sod it, we'll concentrate on the league, as they say. |
| Date | Versus | H/A | Score | Scorers | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/12/99 | Millwall | H | W 1-0 | Hart | An unexpected win over 2nd division opposition, especially coming in the middle of a bad league run. |
| 11/1/2000 | Bournemouth | A | L 0-1 | Not repeated in the next round, however, though it took a 'golden goal' to win the match. |
League table: Division 3.
*** FULL LEAGUE TABLE *** (as at 11/03/00)
FULL END-OF SEASON TABLE WILL FOLLOW.
H o m e A w a y
Pos Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
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1 Rotherham United 36 12 2 4 37 12 9 5 4 23 14 34 70
2 Swansea City 35 13 3 2 26 9 8 4 5 15 13 19 70
3 Darlington 35 12 5 0 35 8 7 4 7 21 19 29 66
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4 Peterborough United 35 12 3 3 31 21 6 4 7 19 21 8 61
5 Northampton Town 35 12 2 4 27 13 5 5 7 18 22 10 58
6 Barnet 36 10 4 4 31 20 6 5 7 15 23 3 57
7 Hartlepool United 36 12 1 5 24 14 4 6 8 22 26 6 55
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8 Torquay United 34 9 5 3 25 11 5 5 7 21 25 10 52
9 Cheltenham Town 34 10 3 5 23 15 5 4 7 15 16 7 52
10 Plymouth Argyle 35 9 8 0 32 14 3 7 8 10 23 5 51
11 Rochdale 34 6 5 5 12 12 8 4 6 26 22 4 51
12 Mansfield Town 36 9 4 5 31 21 6 2 10 14 26 -2 51
13 Lincoln City 35 10 4 4 34 17 3 7 7 26 35 8 50
14 Macclesfield Town 36 7 5 6 25 23 7 3 8 24 23 3 50
15 BRIGHTON & HOVE ALB 36 8 4 6 30 21 4 7 7 20 19 10 47
16 Halifax Town 36 6 5 7 19 18 7 3 8 16 25 -8 47
17 Southend United 36 8 4 6 30 27 4 4 10 15 25 -7 44
18 Hull City 36 6 7 5 23 16 4 6 8 10 19 -2 43
19 Leyton Orient 36 6 5 7 18 19 5 3 10 19 25 -7 41
20 Exeter City 36 6 5 7 21 26 3 4 11 16 32 -21 36
21 York City 36 4 8 6 15 20 3 4 11 16 30 -19 33
22 Shrewsbury Town 35 4 6 8 14 17 3 4 10 11 29 -21 31
23 Chester City 36 3 4 11 12 33 3 3 12 19 37 -39 25
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24 Carlisle United 33 4 5 6 16 18 1 4 13 14 42 -30 24
Goalscorers (all competitions):
13 goals: Darren Freeman (incl. 3 pens.)
10 goals: Gary Hart
9 goals: Paul Rogers
6 goals: Bobby Zamora (incl. 1 pen.)
4 goals: Charlie Oatway, Paul Watson
3 goals: Warren Aspinall
2 goals: Aidan Newhouse, Andy Crosby, Kerry Mayo, Danny Cullip, Lorenzo Pinamonte, Scott Ramsay, Paul Brooker
1 goal: Rod Thomas, Jamie Campbell, Darren Carr, Martin Ling, Keith McPherson, own goals
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