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I had a conversation with my wife today about my early days watching football - I’m not sure she was listening, but I’m used to that - I was telling her how, during that 1971-72 season I mentioned earlier in this thread, I used to jump on the train at Burgess Hill, with a few school friends, or...

Sorry, I'm just getting a bit touchy about all this and I don't really know why. The world has moved on, yet people just seem to want to hark back to a "better" time. A time of aggro and flare ups with rivals, a time of bogs that you wouldn't visit without your scarf tied round your mouth, a...

Ok, did EVERY home fan really join in with the Seagulls chant? Yes, there were occasions when things were going well when The Goldstone reverberated, but it could also be as much of a library as The Emirates is now. It just seems everyone is taking a trip down memory Lane when everything was...

So not only rose tinted glasses, but hearing aids too - sorry, couldn’t resist!

Oh dear!

I know, but plucky Bournemouth doesn't sound as good as the mighty Aston Villa... :D Now Ted Mac, now there was a goal scorer of his day!

No one is saying there hasn"t been times when the atmosphere has been great at Brighton games. I go back a bit further than you to the "71-'72 season when we went toe to toe with the mighty Aston Villa for the Third Division title, only to fail at the last (so very Brighton). There were some...

Ah, so what you mean is its easy to get a great atmosphere when you've got a team at the top of its game and challenging...

Yep, many was the time I heard the refrain, from the North Stand, "can you hear the South Stand sing" only to be greated by stoney silence.

I think there are some distinctly rose coloured spectacles regarding The Goldstone. I had been there with some really shit atmospheres, night games tended to be better, but again that may have been because I was an impressionable school kid... By and large, if you entertain the fans they will...

As you brought up Paul Barber, I will respond in a way I would expect him to see things... Boisterous, passionate support isn't to be frowned upon, snorting cocaine in the bogs* then fighting your own fans is! * Paul Barber may not use the word bogs, possibly preferring Gentlemen facilities.