I agree with you there Notters that all rivalries are manufactured to a certain extent , I don't think the Brighton/palace one is though , not at all , a very organic growth if I may say so
can't understand people who think it's manufactured, I have just started working with a palace fan , he's a lovely bloke, he knows my chelsea history but knows I've had an Albion season ticket for a few years , he CANNOT help but sing palace/anti brighton songs all day !
They certainly did in the 80s.Despite being name checked on various Nigel boards as someone they don't like very much, I very much agree with you. I have plenty of Palace fans as friends seeing as I live in the area, and they are all far better to talk football than the armchair billy big club twàts you have to put up with in the office who have never even been to a game. Oh and you're spot on with regard to "Chels".
Nope. All about Swindon for Oxford. And that one is very much reciprocated. They really don't care about Reading.
, it might have been a purely hooligan thing , I don't know, but oxford fans certainly used to sing to the tune of the red flag , 'we'll never be mastered , by no reading *******s' I knew a couple in the 80s, there was definitely a rivalry there.
