These threads are more typical that you might think elsewhere. On 'tough' BBS just a couple of years ago, there was a huge thread from non-youngsters who sit in the Holmesdale, fuming with the :lolol: Ultras for obsene language, push and shoving, a lack of manners on the conourse etc. They...
Your dissection from the sofa of the facts and events, is laughable. Family bias, makes it entirely useless.
Leave the process to those who were there FIRST HAND and Paul Barber's enquiries.
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The relentless posts of a desparate relative, with second hand 'knowledge', questioning the integrity of the OP's account, has been cringeworthy.
I can only think it's the following mentalities:
a) You criticise those 'lively' away fans, then you're slagging off my beloved Albion, so that enemies of the club (Palace) will see it. Don't wash your laundry in public, blah, blah.
b) Be man enough at the time to tell the nine 21 year olds...
NSC is built on chatting through sundry issues, including these. It makes it one of the best football forums, with no dictators or bullies restricting the breadth of subjects (which I've seen elsewhere).