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I'd guess that you own that book? On the Aldershot pages, that talk of an awful day for them in the FAC November 2000, where initially they attacked a small group of Brighton pre match, witnessed by other Brighton. Resulting in 60 Brighton attacking their pub, a big loss for them.

Only looking up an old Albion match, I came across this. Extracts from a book by Nick Lowles...

A very early story of organised football trouble. Previously, I’d read stuff about the beginnings being huge numbers of supporters of clubs such as Liverpool travelling the country by train for violence in the early 60’s. With a lack of TV cameras, 60’s hooliganism rarely gets mentioned.

This. Plus parents fear of their kids getting run over whilst cycling. At my huge comp, in the 70’s and early 80’s, a couple of lads died separately from being killed by cars, one on a paper round. We cycled everywhere in towns and in the countryside, mobiles/helmets/reflective clothing...

On the latter I sometimes hitch hiked into Brighton for pubs/clubs, inevitably they picked up hitchhikers. I stayed polite but ‘cold’, very aware of an exit strategy if anything was tried. No harm done. But a friend hitching back to Newhaven was touched, which was met by a punch.

I’ve never attacked others. With an exception, if attacked at school or out at night by scummers, my competitive instinct took over. Other than being chased by skinheads when you were a punk, in all your time in pubs, clubs or gigs, have you ever faced a random attack?

I heard about it beforehand too, wasn’t sure if just a rumour, it wasn’t. Pre-internet and Radio Brighton weren’t interested in stuff like that, how did we hear? Thinking back, it was because legit Albion fans buying tickets at the old WS ticket office midweek well before the game, said that...

I never really saw the actual fighting, but in the late 70’s matches under Taylor then Mullery, walking with my Dad to our car near Goldstone Villas, many times we saw huge numbers of Albion fans (literally hundreds, at least), chasing Palace and other supporters down the Conway Street tunnel...