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It was a bit like that, but I can't imagine they were handing out lifetime bans, probably just a couple of games. So I doubt it made much difference to the support long-term.

Definitely. To be fair to Sussex police, they don't have that much experience in policing big crowds and big events like the Met do, for example. They're drafting in officers from all over Sussex to help, and I imagine if your normal job is a policeman in Rotherfield then you're probably a bit...

Indeed. Ajax fans tucked away in the corner miles away from the home fans, the home fans go on to the running track area in front of them and lob petrol bombs and flares into the away end, so the local police's response is to go in to the Ajax fans and start battering them. If a Palace fan got...

Well I hope they are ready for those oiks on Tuesday otherwise we're going to end up with another situation like AEK against Ajax last night.

Sussex police are not PLR.

I strongly suggest a lot of our fans avoid going to football in South America or Turkey or somewhere.

Yeah I said I wouldn't take my kids to this game (although to be honest that's a bit different as mine are a lot younger than yours). But I can't see why any adult would genuinely be frightened of attending a Premier League football match between Brighton and Crystal Palace. It's hardly...

Which says a lot about our support. I don't get the kids excuse- I wouldn't take my kids to a Palace game, but we should still have enough adults that aren't frightened of a banger or a spotty teenager. How would these people cope at Lewes bonfire!? It's not like there was any real large scale...

I wonder if their allocation is going to be reduced this time. Anyone heard anything? If we don't sell out this game then it will really answer more questions about our support, just like the cup game did. I think we will though.

Completely agree, it’s pathetic. And kind of backs up everything Palace day about our support.

And there speaks the modern football fan.

That is just weird.

There have been 277 posts on this thread and I would guess about 25 people who claim to have never missed a game since the Charity Shield have said they aren't going. 25 out of a 30,000 crowd isn't very much. You can't say it's nothing whatsoever to do with new fans, that's clearly complete...

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I don't think you're right there. There are hardly any empty seats for most games in the Premier League. 25,000 would be good for this game, but I can't see us getting that judging by a lot of people's attitude on here. I just find it sad that football has got to the point where drawing your...

I struggle to get embarrassed by anything to do with football, but if we really do have a half-empty stadium for this it just completely backs up what other fans say about Brighton i.e most of the Amex is made up of new fans, loads of them with Brighton as their second team while they 'support'...

No they couldn’t do that because it would be just too terrifying for poor Sussex police, they wouldn’t be able to cope with 2000 Nigels from Croydon rampaging their way through Sussex at the weekend. And having it on a Monday night will mean that nobody would dare have more than two pints, as...

No I don’t. We get nearly 30,000 against the likes of Stoke on a Monday night. Security issues? Seriously? How many Brighton fans were hurt at the last game? Zero? Are people really that worried? Have we really got that many fans who have only been going a few years and are that concerned about...

Modern football is so shit. A half empty stadium in an FA Cup game in the top flight against our biggest rivals. 30,000 watching us play Burnley in the league. How has this happened? I don't understand it.