[Albion] Did we really...

[NorthstandRacoon]

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.

Excellent post.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Yes in the NS a it was very loud.

bit pathetic really

Good. I also shouted at them to f*** off too.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

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.

Another excellent post. 100% agree.

 

[Giraffe]

I neither booed nor clapped but had I been forced to do one or other I'd have booed. We're Brighton fans, not some bloody fanboy for the big clubs. Screw them.

Might have been different if Ali mac had started.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I really hope we are doing this guard of honour thing.for Palace as well for their magnificent achievement.

Only if our players are doing this during the guard of honour.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Out of interest were you there? If not don't question those that bothered to go. THAT'S TINPOT

Why on earth would you think I wasn't there? I was and I always am for home matches . What a bizarre conclusion to draw.

 

[sakooshi]

How are they horrible? Bit of an overreaction.

The only clubs worth having disdain for are…

Palace
Man Utd
Man City
Millwall
Motherwell
Hashtag Utd
Bognor
TWATs

You forgot about Crawley Town.

 

[um bongo molongo]

When did the whole guard of honour thing become a thing? I’m sure it didn’t happen when I was growing up. Stiff handshake and get on with it.

 

[London Irish]

We did boo them which was probably a bit off as they didn’t cheat or anything like recent champions. But it ain’t deep, it’s football and anyone can boo whatever they want, the booers gave me a chuckle

 

[slartibartfast]

fat kids in Liverpool tops were pissing me off way before a billion man United ****s started doing it.

Exactly !! Perhaps it's an age thing.... Liverpool have been the club I have disliked intensely way before any other... since the early 70s.... certainly by about 1977, when I realised that I wanted Borussia MGB to beat them in the final of the European cup , just to shut kids up in my school. And Ive never lived anywhere near the north west of England. Ive lived in various places, and abroad, and there have ALWAYS been f'ing Liverpool fans in every single school, or work place/office, chirping away about how "special" "they" are, even when sometimes these glory hunting shytes have been South Africans who had never set foot in England, and spent the rest of the time telling me how crap the UK was. I cannot recall a single time that Ive wanted Liverpool to win - Ive loathed them since the 70s.
So ... NO! I didnt clap the bastards onto the pitch, but also , NO, I didnt boo them either. I just sat in my seat with my arms folded.

 

[Greenbag50]

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.

Totally agree…. I’m originally from Scotland as a Rangers fan and have been to Old Firm games home and away and it has to be tribal at home.
You can never let the home team feel at home, ever.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

I booed and some did around me. There was one person clapping. Can't stand Scousers.

 

[Justice]

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!

I happen to agree booing was pathetic all three stands shouting wankers wankers would have been so much better.

 

[wellquickwoody]

How are they horrible? Bit of an overreaction.

The only clubs worth having disdain for are…

Palace
Man Utd
Man City
Millwall
Motherwell
Hashtag Utd
Bognor
TWATs

That is your choice, fine. Someone else may have a different list.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Why on earth would you think I wasn't there? I was and I always am for home matches . What a bizarre conclusion to draw.

Easy really the question you asked. If you were there then you’d know there was booing when Liverpool appeared.

 

[Hamilton]

That is your choice, fine. Someone else may have a different list.

Er, obviously. It’s a light-hearted post.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

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.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

My booing was more for all the plastic wankers sat in the home stands than the actual players.

 

[The Terminator]

It is a bit sanctimonious isn’t it?

It does feel that way. There’s clearly a new wave of football supporters emerging, and while change is inevitable, I can’t help but feel that we’re losing something vital in the process. That raw emotion and edge that made football so compelling in the first place. Reading through this thread, it almost seems like those who disapprove of booing are trying to ridicule those who still value a bit of atmosphere. “We’re not Neanderthals down on the south coast”. Well sometimes, I wish we were…

I’d much rather see a passionate, charged home atmosphere, Blokes letting off a bit of steam after a tough week, giving it to the away fans, and trying to rattle the opposition.

Yes, football has moved on, and in some ways for the better. But surely we haven’t evolved to the point where showing a bit of hostility to the opposition is now frowned upon?

For what it’s worth, I actually find it far more tinpot to applaud the champions than to give them a hostile reception.

 

[Hotchilidog]

I mildly booed and applauded at the same time, all pantomime isn't it.