So, why do Brighton fans hate Crystal Palace?

[Dougie]

says the Palace gimp on a Brighton forum
regards
DR

OH the irony das , your self imposed flounce till February didn't last long did it

 

[Captain Sensible]

Coz palace are little sad fuuckers. Lived in Croydon for many years, palace fan is a good friend, but that effing club are so sad and funny, they deserve the shite they wallow in.

 

[The Truth]

Brighton fans don't hate Palace fans, hate is too strong a word. 'sympathise' would be more appropriate.

 

[EDS]

There really are far too many Palace on here. Eagles destroy Seagulls or whatever he thinks he calls himself being a prime cut of knob steak.

You would know

 

[EDS]

you know what mate ,i don't have a problem with the odd one popping on board for a little bit of banter but some of these gimps must be lonely
regards
DR

The man who calls himself Das Reich calling others gimps

Gimps, special mention to [MENTION=28056]bn9 bha[/MENTION]

 

[BN9 BHA]

The man who calls himself Das Reich calling others gimps

Gimps, special mention to [MENTION=28056]bn9 bha[/MENTION]

You got up before 5.30 this morning to give me a mention?
I am really touched by your kindness

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

And vice versa?

If the word 'hate' is too strong a word to use please swap it for a word that is a little less strong.

I remember not too long ago that Plymouth had a bit of a thing for us because we relegated them and beat them in the play offs once. It was quite strange actually.

I'm here for a history lesson really, you lovely people of the Seagull persuasion.

The Good :

Owners are fans.
Palace annual beer festival.

The Bad :

An elevated league status paid for by debt default.
Gloating, sneering internet fans.
The homophobic chanting when their away mob are in town.

The Ugly :

Selhurst.

 

[The Birdman]

Alan Mullery started it all in 1976.

I don't think so he added to it but I remember a pre season friendly when As a kid standing on my box looking over the wall in the chicken run watching Palace fans chasing Brighton fans out of the North Stand I think it was a small crowd that day. Also a would blame Crystal Challis for that one not Alan !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crystal Pulis]

The Good :

Owners are fans.
Palace annual beer festival.

The Bad :

An elevated league status paid for by debt default.
Gloating, sneering internet fans.
The homophobic chanting when their away mob are in town.

The Ugly :

Selhurst.

Right back at you:

BHAFC:

The good:

The Amex is nice

The Bad :

An elevated league status due to living beyond their means but sugar daddy Bloom saving them
Gloating, sneering, cocky, arrogant internet fans that start multiple threads about there superior rivals (so so jealous)
The chanting at Glenn Murray after his horrific injury
Not a real football town

The Ugly :

Fat Boy Slim

 

[Andyjohnson]

What is it with you lot and the whole 'plastic' thing.

Its easy really just look at thefacts. You see in the Championship palace had to beg people to turn up, give away free tickets, 2 for 1 deals and even in a promotion season you couldnt rely n 14000 to turn up for a midweek game. Now its the top flight you have a few kids who bang a drum, cobble tohgether 24000 who want to watch premier league football and all we ever hear from you is that BHA have never played in Rupert Murdoch's Premier League. Which for me is just the First dvision which in turn took over from the split Football and Southern league. But for Palace to understand this, a club who will lose more than half its support if you get down to the Championship is impossible for you. You wouldnt have had a hope if you had played 140 miles round trip away. Palace are just no as important to its area as the Albion are to Brighton/ the coast and the rest of Sussex. Its just how it is. Dont expect you to understand tho'. Clubs like Newcastle would tho'. Its a regional thing.

You really do talk absolute drivel. Palace won't lose half more than half of our support if we go down. We're averaging about 23.5 this year and if we went down it would probably be about 16K, roughly what we've average whilst down in the championship. This is what generally happens when teams get relegated. The fact that QPR are also flogging tickets on groupon this, despite being in the top 4 all season and having a capacity of under 20k, just highlights how difficult it is for London clubs to get punters through the gates if you're not in the Premiership.
The fact that you compare Brighton to Newcastle is ridiculous. If you were to walk into a classroom 95% of the kids would be Newcastle fans. Theyre born into it and its almost inconcievable that being born in Newcastle you'd support anyone else, same with say Leeds. Brighton's just not like that, I dont know why you pretend it is. Brighton is one club town, but in terms of your clubs DNA you're closer to Reading than Newcastle. Your real support size and size of your club is pretty much the same as ours, I think most sensible people on here would at least agree on that.
I know you get far bigger crowds than us now but building that new stadium has obviously attraced a lot Sussex based football fans who have a soft spot for Brighton as well as proper Brighton fans.
Not having a pop at that or your club, its just there are too many posters like this guy who constantly spout complete drivel and that obviously includes Palace fans too. The one thing I actually do agree with you on WCP is the drum, it is embarassing and for what its worth Palace fans who bang on about us having the best supporters in the land make me cringe as much as you do.

 

[El Presidente]

You got up before 5.30 this morning to give me a mention?
I am really touched by your kindness

Papers don't deliver themselves in the morning you know.....

 

[El Presidente]

You really do talk absolute drivel. Palace won't lose half more than half of our support if we go down. We're averaging about 23.5 this year and if we went down it would probably be about 16K, roughly what we've average whilst down in the championship. This is what generally happens when teams get relegated. The fact that QPR are also flogging tickets on groupon this, despite being in the top 4 all season and having a capacity of under 20k, just highlights how difficult it is for London clubs to get punters through the gates if you're not in the Premiership.
The fact that you compare Brighton to Newcastle is ridiculous. If you were to walk into a classroom 95% of the kids would be Newcastle fans. Theyre born into it and its almost inconcievable that being born in Newcastle you'd support anyone else, same with say Leeds. Brighton's just not like that, I dont know why you pretend it is. Brighton is one club town, but in terms of your clubs DNA you're closer to Reading than Newcastle. Your real support size and size of your club is pretty much the same as ours, I think most sensible people on here would at least agree on that.
I know you get far bigger crowds than us now but building that new stadium has obviously attraced a lot Sussex based football fans who have a soft spot for Brighton as well as proper Brighton fans.
Not having a pop at that or your club, its just there are too many posters like this guy who constantly spout complete drivel and that obviously includes Palace fans too. The one thing I actually do agree with you on WCP is the drum, it is embarassing and for what its worth Palace fans who bang on about us having the best supporters in the land make me cringe as much as you do.

Ignore WCP, it's a parody account.

 

[Working class pride]

Ignore WCP, it's a parody account.

El P and I differ on the sort of club we support. My Albion supporting roots go back through the generations. I think El P is a relative newcomer and for me he doesn't understand the Albion, so for El P the fact that the Albion are 10th / 11th best supported club in the country has come as a surprise where as for me, it did not. As for Palace well the fact is that in the Championship they did have to give away tickets to get close to 16000 gates and they would drop to around 13000 for midweek games. Now they are in Rupert Murdoch's premier League, or the 1st division as I call it, then surprise surprise they find 24000 premier league football fans. Facts are facts tho' Brighton get more than that in the division below. As an aside, i dont hate palace, sure there is the rivalry but 1. Its only football and 2 Some of the best people I have known in my life support the Palace. It is however right to say that Brighton are lucky with its regional identity. Palace just dont have that and I am not alone in questioning that if "The Archer years" had happened to Palace, whether 1. they would have mounted anywhere close to the campaign that Brighton did and 2. What they would have got playing 150 mile round trip when second from bottom of the football league playing Hartlepool. Palace have been insolvent twice but its not really taken them to the hard times that Brighton faced. Not even close.

 

[EDS]

 

[El Presidente]

El P and I differ on the sort of club we support.

True WCP, and also the way we support the club, me by watching them play and you by checking your phone from Stamford Bridge.

I will happily buy you a pint on Saturday of course at Vale, except we both know there's one slight problem with the offer.....

 

[EDS]

True WCP, and also the way we support the club, me by watching them play and you by checking your phone from Stamford Bridge.

I will happily buy you a pint on Saturday of course at Vale, except we both know there's one slight problem with the offer.....

A Man U supporter who actually supports BHA and a born and bred Brightonian who supports Chelsea

My uncle used to work at a plastics factory in Bromley owned by the then Brighton chairman, not sure which one though. Now I know where all those extra supporters came from

 

[Working class pride]

True WCP, and also the way we support the club, me by watching them play and you by checking your phone from Stamford Bridge.

I will happily buy you a pint on Saturday of course at Vale, except we both know there's one slight problem with the offer.....

I will be checking my phone from Brentford next week and yes I think its another freebie, so sorry about that as well. You go more than me these days and i watch football where I live - London. Thanks for the offer of the beer, I already have been to Port Vale on my list of 70 odd league grounds and nope, I dont feel the need to go to show I'm an ubber fan. But you go and have a great time. Not sure what I will be doing but travelling to Hanley wont be it. You see the Albion will always be there for me (thanks to Gulls Eye, the fans, Liam Brady, Dick Knight and Tony Bloom to name a few). I will always follow the results and go to a few games a season (no matter the league) and there are many, many members of dyed in the wool "Albion families" who are exactly the same. That I know you dont understand as you are not from an "Albion/Sussex" family. We are different sorts of fans, mine is cultural in the same way as nationality. Born into it. Yours is through moving to Brighton and maybe that is why you are more passionate about going than me.

 

[Working class pride]

A Man U supporter who actually supports BHA and a born and bred Brightonian who supports Chelsea

My uncle used to work at a plastics factory in Bromley owned by the then Brighton chairman, not sure which one though. Now I know where all those extra supporters came from

This is from a palace fan, the club who get 13000 for Bristol City in the Championship and 24000 when in the premier League. When you support Brighton, you are most likely born into it. You dont choose it, you are born / live in Sussex. Now that is why we have an identity. Palace well you have about 13000 who have the same sort of thing but we have 28000 who turn up in the Championship and well, palace dont.

 

[EDS]

I will be checking my phone from Brentford next week and yes I think its another freebie, so sorry about that as well. You go more than me these days and i watch football where I live - London. Thanks for the offer of the beer, I already have been to Port Vale on my list of 70 odd league grounds and nope, I dont feel the need to go to show I'm an ubber fan. But you go and have a great time. Not sure what I will be doing but travelling to Hanley wont be it. You see the Albion will always be there for me (thanks to Gulls Eye, the fans, Liam Brady, Dick Knight and Tony Bloom to name a few). I will always follow the results and go to a few games a season (no matter the league) and there are many, many members of dyed in the wool "Albion families" who are exactly the same. That I know you dont understand as you are not from an "Albion/Sussex" family. We are different sorts of fans, mine is cultural in the same way as nationality. Born into it. Yours is through moving to Brighton and maybe that is why you are more passionate about going than me.

Translation: I have no real response to not supporting my beloved Albion

 

[El Presidente]

A Man U supporter who actually supports BHA and a born and bred Brightonian who supports Chelsea

My uncle used to work at a plastics factory in Bromley owned by the then Brighton chairman, not sure which one though. Now I know where all those extra supporters came from

But your jibes make no sense, as I've been watching the Albion since 1974, so have the scars from the Goldstone, Priestfield and Withdean. Hence I can't be a new fan who only arrived at the Amex as you allege.