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It may be tragic but its still our 'tragic'.

Well as a kid I remember banging the hoardings to Gald All Over, I saw the DC5 perform it at Selhurst Park in 68 and I've still got my copy of the FA Cup version from 1990 somewhere. All many years before Blackpool adopted it in 2008.

Hard to argue with that :D

Ouch :D

I don't know why I'm bothering but here you go "Crystal Palace Football Club adopted the song as their anthem in the 1960s. It is played at the start of all home games, and after full-time (when Palace win). The chorus is played after home goals, before the goalscorer's name is read out. It is...

Stop being so precious, neither of those statements are true. It was a song written about Sussex, not specifically for or exclusively for the county. Written by a northerner who spent virtually all his life in London and lived for around six years near Bognor Regis. Finally being cremated in...

I didn't suggest that Sussex by the Sea wasn't an appropriate song for you lot, I think it's great. But like Glad All Over wasn't written by a Palace fan, nor was GOSBTS written by a Brighton fan. So if, as the poster I quoted stated, that Palace were tinpot for this reason, then so were you...

Why do you lot copy a library? :D

Really? I'm not aware of any publication which even suggests he had any interest in football at all. One thing that did surface was that he was cremated in Norwood. ;)

And William Ward-Higgs was born in Birkenhead, and only lived in Sussex for seven years of his life. How tinpot does that make Brighton? :)