My lad plays football in Preston Park at the weekends and the number of kids in Albion shorts there is crazy. Even the ones in other kits know all the Brighton players, like Brighton and are there for the taking (in a brain washing sense)
Just say you were involved in one of the other local teams, Worthing, Eastbourne Borough, Burgess Hill. You'd probably be sick of coach loads of people leaving town every Saturday to go and watch the Albion