It is a cliché, but there is always one…
Just like when there is a storm raging at high tide in Brighton: there is always one idiot standing on the end of the pier, admiring the view.
I know of a Lancing-based Palace fan whose children have used the facilities at the training ground. He chose to move from South London to Lancing, yet rubbishes Albion’s work in the community, calls Albion fans “plastic”, and considers an Albion defeat better than a Palace victory. Yet he is...
Palace fans are all over Sussex. On BBS, they have names like Behind Enemy Lines and Down Amongst The Scum, when they have chosen to live in God’s Own County.
It was a moronic thing to do and it met with a predictably moronic response. The bloke wanted to provoke people, obviously, so why not simply ignore him or be polite to him? Indifference and politeness would have been too much for his tiny mind to cope with.