Having trailed 2-0 to two Chris Wood goals, the Albion eventually rescued a point thanks to LuaLua and a late David Lopez penalty.įor that Arsenal game in 2018, the club managed to cobble together a transport plan involving lots of buses, additional park and ride sites and getting Southern Rail to put on a skeleton service on a day when normally there are no trains. Millwall’s visit was therefore brought forward to Tuesday 18th December, a night when Gus Poyet He Who Must Not Be Named famously tried a back three for the first (and only) time.īrighton were woeful for the first half hour and Lewis Dunk was hauled for Kazenga LuaLua after only 39 minutes as Poyet abandoned his new formation. In 2012, the club simply told the Football League that the Amex could not host Boxing Day football. The 2016 game scheduled for Boxing Day against Queens Park Rangers was moved by Sky to midday on the 27th, saving the Albion the nightmare of trying to organise travel. 30,608 witnessed it for a game which started at 5.15pm. Jurgen Locadia briefly put his music and Instagram influencer career on hold to actually look vaguely like a football, scoring in a 1-1 draw after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had given Arsenal a seventh minute lead.
Goals from Jake Forster-Caskey and a 90th minute Inigo Calderon equaliser rescued a 2-2 draw in front of 26,173 tickets sold for a 3pm kick off.įour years later and Arsenal visited the Amex on Boxing Day 2018. The first of those saw Glenn Murray score twice for Reading in 2014, only for caretaker boss Nathan Jones to inspire a Brighton comeback.
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