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A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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Wasn’t there.

100% would have booed if I was.
 










Dave the OAP

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Jul 5, 2003
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at home
boo the new Champions of the Premier League as they came out on to the pitch to a guard of honour from our players, organised by our club to applaud their achievement?

If we did, that's tinpot and pathetic and I despair of the behaviour of some of fans at times. If we didn't, we'll it sounded like it!
Yes in the NS a it was very loud.

bit pathetic really
 




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
I certainly did. Screw them! It's their celebration not ours. It's a competitive match and we have something to play for. Balls to em.

I really hate the veneration of other sides. We don't owe them anything until after the season is over and then they can have a pat on the back. Last might they were the opposition.
There’s a big difference between acknowledging champions of the league and venerating them. Venerating means worshipping.

i would hope we are capable of good sportsmanship as our club does, by providing a guard of honour. Two mins of applause is not much.
Fans on NSC were quick to moan when Southampton refused to give us a guard of honour in 2011, but thank Huddersfield for doing so.
If you didn’t want to applaud fair enough, but booing is silly.

After kick off, during the game is a different matter. That’s when the pantomime starts.
 




The Terminator

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Aug 7, 2010
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can’t stand this kind of post. it’s creeping more and more into the modern game. Things like “Well done Palace, even though we hate you” or “Your city’s blue just like Brighton” when we’re away at City… what are we doing? The English game was built on tribalism, intensity, and a bit of needle. Yeah, it’s not actual hatred most of the time, we all get that. But it’s meant to be fierce. That edge is what makes it.

Honestly, I hate to say it, but I wish we had a bit more of that northern grit half the time. Football is still football up there.

Our away fans “get it” but at home we are a joke sometimes.
 




Oh_aye

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Jul 8, 2022
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There’s a big difference between acknowledging champions of the league and venerating them. Venerating means worshipping.

i would hope we are capable of good sportsmanship as our club does, by providing a guard of honour. Two mins of applause is not much.
Fans on NSC were quick to moan when Southampton refused to give us a guard of honour in 2011, but thank Huddersfield for doing so.
If you didn’t want to applaud fair enough, but booing is silly.

After kick off, during the game is a different matter. That’s when the pantomime starts.
Honestly, I couldn't give a shiny shìte about Liverpool or their achievements. I was there to support the Albion. Each to their own but I'd say about 20k in the stadium spontaneously felt the same. The veneration post comes from the idea that you 'have' to do it, or as the original poster suggested it's 'tinpot'.

I think its tinpot to meekly acquiesce. Can you imagine Fenerbahce doing it for Galatasaray etc. Extreme example, but it is just an example.

We're there to play a competitive match against them not give them the thumbs up.

I'm glad the note of resistance followed through to how we played too.
 








Iggle Piggle

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Sep 3, 2010
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Save the Guard of Honour for military bollocks where some disinterested Head of state is pretending to look at shiny shoes and funny hats.

Liverpool can have their celebration this weekend. Stick Cilia on the tannoy, old episodes of Bread on the big screen and wheel out Jimmy Corkhill to present the trophy. Why we have to pretend to join in with their celebration is beyond me.
 




Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
21,222
Eastbourne
I stood in disinterested silence. I might have clapped had Alexis being playing cause I’m pleased for his personal achievement but otherwise couldn’t care less.

Also booing would have been pointless as there was a bloke a couple of rows behind me booing so loudly they could have heard him in The Font.
W3H? If so, I am sorry.
 








BNthree

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Sep 14, 2016
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WeHo
can’t stand this kind of post. it’s creeping more and more into the modern game. Things like “Well done Palace, even though we hate you” or “Your city’s blue just like Brighton” when we’re away at City… what are we doing? The English game was built on tribalism, intensity, and a bit of needle. Yeah, it’s not actual hatred most of the time, we all get that. But it’s meant to be fierce. That edge is what makes it.

Honestly, I hate to say it, but I wish we had a bit more of that northern grit half the time. Football is still football up there.

Our away fans “get it” but at home we are a joke sometimes.
It is a bit sanctimonious isn’t it?
 


PILTDOWN MAN

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Sep 15, 2004
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boo the new Champions of the Premier League as they came out on to the pitch to a guard of honour from our players, organised by our club to applaud their achievement?

If we did, that's tinpot and pathetic and I despair of the behaviour of some of fans at times. If we didn't, we'll it sounded like it!
Out of interest were you there? If not don't question those that bothered to go. THAT'S TINPOT
 




jackanada

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Jul 19, 2011
3,696
Brighton
Balls to them.
Firstly they've not just this second won it. They've already had two matches with a guard of honour. One is enough, celebrate at your home ground all you like, have the open top bus and all that jazz but continually going away and getting fawned over? f*** that.
Second it could easily encourage such groups as The Brighton Kop and that brings shame on the entire sport.
Third some simpering wealthy middle class man who lives in Brighton having moved from nowhere near f***ing Liverpool, with a name like Hugo, will harp on about how you have to admire Liverpool with their history and passion and yada yada yada. No I f***ing don't, fat kids in Liverpool tops were pissing me off way before a billion man United ****s started doing it.
Fourth - At the Amex I had a grown man get up in front of me and go get Gerrard's autograph while he was warming up and come back excited and beaming about it. He did give up his ST a couple of years later but I still had to look at the back of his head and resist the urge to slap him upside it for many hours if my life. The shameful melt.
 


boo the new Champions of the Premier League as they came out on to the pitch to a guard of honour from our players, organised by our club to applaud their achievement?

If we did, that's tinpot and pathetic and I despair of the behaviour of some of fans at times. If we didn't, we'll it sounded like it!
f*** off! hahaha They acted like ****s during the match after both goals, so deserved it.
 


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