Arsenal fans acting the big time cockney geezers

[Guinness Boy]

I would imagine that age, alcohol consumption and time of day encountered are all factors in how you perceive today's Arsenal fans. We had some on the train over who only did aways, older guys who had had a drink but could hold it and were bantering with the older of the kids with us. Thoroughly decent guys who had seen them play at Dortmund and Monaco but also Stoke and Sunderland. We had a good laugh with them and each wished the other good luck as we got off.

Coming home there was a gang of totally pissed teens singing homophobic songs on the platform at Falmer surrounded by Plod. Since they weren't being nicked for their blatant homophobia you can only imagine someone had already tried to chin them. I looked up to see where my son was, caught one of their eyes and he looked away instantly. The replica shirt wearing brain doners on the Coastway West train home were even worse, a sort of hideous parody of unfortunate gimps the world over.

Every team's got both sets of course. Premier League teams just have more of them.

 

[Mowgli37]

Anyone else see that bloke with the 'West Sussex Gooners banner'? A rousing chorus of 'we support our local team' was the snappy response

 

[Weststander]

Their players and fans celebrated each goal as if they were in CL knock-out tie. Cricky, Arsenal really have fallen in their level of expectation over the last near-barren 9 years. Their squad has cost the best part of £200m, yet they get over-excited in knocking out Championship improvers Albion.

 

[8ace]

It's a long time since I last wanted to clump someone at the football, but a lot of the Arsenal fans in the station queue were the biggest cunkers I've seen in years. I'm glad the bad old days of the 80s are gone but I couldn't help wanting a Brighton mob to turn up...

So instead of doing anything about yourself you thought you'd post about it on here

 

[goldstone68]

Anyone else see that bloke with the 'West Sussex Gooners banner'? A rousing chorus of 'we support our local team' was the snappy response

what a **** he was, I enjoyed that on the station it passed the time away waiting for a train

 

[Springal]

Some proper bellends at Brighton station before the game too giving it the biggun and when confronted walked off quietly

 

[oneillco]

So instead of doing anything about yourself you thought you'd post about it on here

Yeah sorry about that, I was hoping a real hard nut like you might want to show us how it is done...

 

[8ace]

Yeah sorry about that, I was hoping a real hard nut like you might want to show us how it is done...

F*ck the Pope and the IRA

 

[oneillco]

F*ck the Pope and the IRA

Have you? That's nice

 

[brightonwarrior]

What annoys me is that half of them are plastic fans and are not committed I think it is pathetic

 

[Mowgli37]

what a **** he was, I enjoyed that on the station it passed the time away waiting for a train

Had to laugh when the police came over and made him put the banner away. What exactly was he going to do from the other side of a platform?

 

[bn3gunner]

Shock horror out of four and a half thousand away fans some of them acted like dicks, sometimes after a day of drinking on an awayday not everyone behaves, in the 20 years i have been following my team this kind of thing happens and im sure it will continue to happen.having been home and away with the albion im sure you all know every club has their own fair share of dicks too.

 

[el punal]

Got to say it. The Arsenal fans that I met in the pub before and after the game were great. Had a good chat with them and at the end they complemented the Albion for making a fight of it.

 

[Frutos]

Anyone else see that bloke with the 'West Sussex Gooners banner'? A rousing chorus of 'we support our local team' was the snappy response

Yep, and a well-deserved response too.

 

[Goldstone_groover]

Arsenal have got to be the muggiest club in football.

Yes I've heard it can get very humid inside the Emirates.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

What annoys me is that half of them are plastic fans and are not committed I think it is pathetic

Really? The were around 4500 of them there yesterday and they get 60,000 at home most games. To get a ticket they needed away points, suggesting that they were actually proper fans.

Please explain this obsession brighton fans have with the term " plastic" as quite frankly it makes you especially appear a pathetic and childish.

 

[User removed 4]

Really? The were around 4500 of them there yesterday and they get 60,000 at home most games. To get a ticket they needed away points, suggesting that they were actually proper fans.

Please explain this obsession brighton fans have with the term " plastic" as quite frankly it makes you especially appear a pathetic and childish.

because half of them that bang on about 'plastics' are post euro 96 "footie" fans who got into football through watching baddies and skinner in fantasy football league, they're using it as a bit of reverse psychology

 

[crabface]

Their "Firm" being escorted up by the police was one of the funniest things i have seen in a long time. About 20, 13 year olds thinking they are hard, was very amusing.

 

[zxtwinturbo]

Got to say it. The Arsenal fans that I met in the pub before and after the game were great. Had a good chat with them and at the end they complemented the Albion for making a fight of it.

And had they lost they would probably been complete bell ends

 

[METALMICKY]

too many GOBBY WOMEN as well

Yes how weird was that. The worst one I saw was this scraggy looking woman in her early 50s with an appalling bleached mop of blonde hair. She was walking up to the ground from the station with a bunch of guys in much younger and seemed to be putting on some geezer cockney accent. It was the usual gay references that got my goat.