I read it as asking the reason for following the Albion and/or a national team, with an interest in (though not a requirement for) links that are tenuous. Other people have mentioned they are from Shoreham. :shrug:
Edit, no you're right. My bad :eek:
Born in Buckingham Road maternity hospital so what option did I have? Like all other small boys I 'followed' a division 1 team from 1969 to 74. After I left Sussex for uni I became an intermittent attendee at Albion games till my early 40s owing partly to other interest and partly due to...