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The only other time I caught WBA at Brighton was a 0-0 draw (I think) one New Year's Day (I think) circa the 1990s again. This time I was stood with fellow Baggies freezing on the open East Stand terrace.

I suspect you've misremembered there; we did play Brighton on New Year's Day 1990, but it was a home match which we won 3-0.  We only ever had two goalless draws at the Goldstone Ground: one in February 1980 and the other in February 1983.

Lord knows what match I'm thinking of then. Nurse!
We moved from Bedfordshire down to Seaford in early 1987. Looking back at the records, it wasn't an FA Cup game, and it was definitely at the Goldstone and the Baggies. I do know it was bloody freezing but maybe we lost - it could have been 20 March 1991.

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I seem to remember a game Andy Hunt scores a hat trick
Pretty sure it was against Brighton ?

Found it, it was 1993  

Yep, at The Hawthorns. I travelled up to the match with a couple of Brighton supporter mates, and they got soaked in the rain in the new Smethwick End which was still under re-development at the time. One mate said after the match, "Big club my arse, the away end hasn't even got a roof", to which the other mate said, "Yeah, but there's a reason for that". I seem to remember (though no doubt Ska'd will school me yet again ) that Brighton took the lead with an absolute stonker of a goal into the Brummie Road End - a shot which a lot of Baggies fans applauded but which the bloke sat next to me uncharitably described as 'hit and hope'.