I’m still bitter about Fulham away in January ffs I promise you we were crap, and apparently they are the second worse team in the league!!!!
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[Albion] Does anyone else miss the days when we were crap?
- Thread starter jamie (not that one)
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I’m still bitter about Fulham away in January ffs I promise you we were crap, and apparently they are the second worse team in the league!!!!
Return of the Rev
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Football not great at Gillingham but it was fun £5 on the coach in the pub 11ish,i have taken longer to get from Hove to Falmer on a couple of occasions than Hove to Gillingham. It was not sustainable but less GH's at the games tbh.
maffew
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I get that. I wore the stripes whilst I lived in SA before the prem, and in the handful of time someone recognised it, it was a good conversation starter or I was in some bizarre selfie with a total stranger
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Yes Chef
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I was going to write the precise same thing.
This thread is about old blokes hankering after their youth, not how crap we were
EDIT I'm an old bloke too!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Went past there the other day, they've got a big flagpole now, with an Albion flag proudly flying
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I'm an old woman.
We weren't that crap at Withdean winning four trophies in twelve years.
el punal
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Please tell me you’re joking - you are aren’t you? Cast your mind back to all the shit games, shit results, shit grounds, shit horrible weather days, shit journeys and tell me that you weren’t dreaming that one day we would actually climb through all the leagues, reach the dizzy heights of the top division. Not only that but enjoy being in a top class, brand spanking new stadium.
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
y, y, rip, y, rip, y, n
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Ramblings of a mad man, lower league football is shit.
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
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I miss the genuine fans. When at the Withdean you met up with say some Hartlepool fans in the bar for a beer and you knew they were so genuine and passionate about their club. They hadn't come all the way down for the delights of the Withdean. As much as we need the money there are too many 'plastic fans' now who are only following us as we're now in the Prem and in a swanky new stadium.
When I drove up to Gillingham for every home game for 2 years virtually none of the people I see around me now were ever there. I know it's the nature of the football fan but there was something satisfying in the poorer times driving to places like Grimsby or Stockport and seeing 200 or 300 other die hards who were there to really get behind the team. You can't help but feel that if we did a Sunderland and dropped a couple of divisions today that 10000 or 15000 so called fans would suddenly disappear.
I'm enjoying the good times but will and have done, supported the club whatever division we are in, and to answer the question, yes, I do slighlty miss the old ramshackle stadiums we used to visit and when we were really considered crap. There was almost something heroic supporting a club like Brighton when we were practically on our knees and everything seemed to be going against us. Many of the lower league grounds had more character than the modern corporate stadiums we see today and the fans I thought were more passionate back then. Happy wherever we are though.
When I drove up to Gillingham for every home game for 2 years virtually none of the people I see around me now were ever there. I know it's the nature of the football fan but there was something satisfying in the poorer times driving to places like Grimsby or Stockport and seeing 200 or 300 other die hards who were there to really get behind the team. You can't help but feel that if we did a Sunderland and dropped a couple of divisions today that 10000 or 15000 so called fans would suddenly disappear.
I'm enjoying the good times but will and have done, supported the club whatever division we are in, and to answer the question, yes, I do slighlty miss the old ramshackle stadiums we used to visit and when we were really considered crap. There was almost something heroic supporting a club like Brighton when we were practically on our knees and everything seemed to be going against us. Many of the lower league grounds had more character than the modern corporate stadiums we see today and the fans I thought were more passionate back then. Happy wherever we are though.
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Stockport! Shudder. There was more sand on Stockport's pitch than on Southport beach. McIlroy throwing the ball in Harding's stomach, starting an almighty punch up.
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rudolf hucker
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So true. Moved to Suffolk for 10 years in the '80s and was always know as the Brighton fan and so many friends started (and still do ) looking out for our results. Don't believe it would have been the same if I was a Manure or Liverpool fan
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
That was some punch up, our keeper ran all the way to the half-way line to join in and punched one of their players in the face
supaseagull
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Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
I never understood why Mcllroy wasn't sent to the stands for that.
Steve Foster
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Could always support Crawley?
Just saying ...
Just saying ...
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Agreed Weak referees.
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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You can still get tickets on the morning for a last min mate for pretty much any game - especially with the ticket exchange assuming you meant that and not price etc. I got 2 Liverpool returns for mates the morning of the game - silly money though. Although the standing / sitting with them doesn’t work - maybe I’m not reading your post right..!