glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
support your home town/city football team all others should be just passing interest.......................its the law
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How far down do you draw the line though? Should people from Lewes or Worthing support their local teams and not the Albion? To say nothing of the inhabitants of Crawley and it's surrounding villages. If you come from around Haywards Heath you'd better get that ruler out, you might find that you should be supporting plucky little Crawley as opposed to 'Big' Brighton.
glasfryn
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its means what it says
I have lived in Shrewsbury, London, chelmsford, and watched all of them (London QPR and Fulham) and if by chance the Albion played any of them(mainly Shrewsbury) I stood in the Brighton end
Home town/city IMHO supporting and watching are two different animals
middletoenail
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Don't you support Tottenham? ;-)
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
So, Tommy Elphick, born & brought up in Woodingdean, shouldn't support Liverpool, or Adam El-Abd, from Saltdean, shouldn't be a Forest supporter?
It happens.
It happens.
smudge
Up the Albion!
Always a massive LFC flag in the Waterside on Shoreham Beach when the dippers are on the box. Like an away day for them I suppose.
middletoenail
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It's not like Liverpool have won much recently either, what's wrong with supporting your local team?
No, they shouldn't unless there are family reasons, ties or history for doing so. My kids had their early years in North Somerset but they were never going to be supporters of one of the Bristol teams and were also never going to be a Premier League team glory-hunter.
As it turns out we're all back in Sussex now, so watching the Albion is easier, fortunately.
The Andy Naylor Fan Club
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Absolutely 100% this. You know they are plastics when they wear a replica shirt with a misspelt name on it
That hasn't answered my question.
Frank Skinner said this in a stand up. You are born, you get a map out, find the nearest team and that is you set for life no matter what.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
think it has you support your local team and if you want something else other than Lewes ect you can always be a st holder at the Albion
and if the fixtures clash default to your local team
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
exactly even if it is Palace
Felpham Seagull
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Whats worse hearing a Liverpool fan from Liverpool talking in that dreadful scouse accent or a glory boy from the south talking bollecks
Mr Smggles
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That's me ****ed. Singapore FC it is then.
The Kid Frankie
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The usual explanation for the typical southern suburb div who supports United/Liverpool/Arsenal etc is 'I've supported em since I was 3 mate!'
The best response for this is 'yeah - well I played with Thomas The Tank Engine toys when I was 3, then I grew up and knocked it on the head...'
Rarely get a logical argument to that.
The best response for this is 'yeah - well I played with Thomas The Tank Engine toys when I was 3, then I grew up and knocked it on the head...'
Rarely get a logical argument to that.
So if I lived in, say, Handcross and normally supported Brighton, if they played Crawley I should support Crawley as they're my local team?
I'd be a Palace fan!
Exactly. If I was born and bred in Croydon then I would be a Palace fan. I do actually have a fair bit of respect for Palace fans because it would be so easy to support Chelsea or Arsenal via a short train journey.