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It was a script designed to exaggerate real life events.

I watch a few 1970s plays etc What sticks out is the vulnerability and awkwardness of the characters. The problem with modern nostalgia type stuff like this is that the characters all seem very knowing and sharp witted which we love to think we were ….. but we weren't.

Like the boy's radio work but he claims to resist being self regarding. This seemed a bit contrived and a watered down version of other people's similar stuff before e.g. The Grimleys, Shameless etc Oh and when he was sent to his room to be given a stern talking to by his dad for trying to cop...

I'm sure that was the case in the area generally; in fact it seemed to be so from memories of visiting parents' friends and our relatives in the 60s and early 70s. Brighton were nowhere on the rivalry radar. Even now I find some Palace fans find our obsession with them something of a mild...

Don't think the poster was a Palace fan; just someone who had not clocked that DB being a Millwall fan would have been anti Palace. Whether anyone cares or not Millwall have hated Palace longer than Brighton have; sp given DB has probably supported Millwall since the early 60s it seems strange...

It was not you specifically but you subsequently referred to 'we' 'we don't care when our rivalry began'

Maybe it's because when you said he had an irrational hatred of Crystal Palace you failed to clock the fact that being a Millwall fan he WOULD wouldn't he.

Much copied for sure but you guys seem to be ignoring the fact that Millwall have been Palace's major rivals for decades before we joined in in 1977.

Rational or not; being a Millwall fan of a certain age he probably loathed Palace since the early 1960s quite a few years before we Brighton fans [the Dolphins] started to loathe them, irrationally or not.