Calling Easy 10....

[clapham_gull]

.. you've been exposed

http://forums.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1795

 

[Yorkie]

Easy 10 has posted under 'Easy 10' on Steve's live disection thread

 

[clapham_gull]

Easy 10 has posted under 'Easy 10' on Steve's live disection thread

Yes, BUT

The regular users have got a bit paranoid and have been blaming each over over the last few days.

"Long Time No See", "Scratcher" and "Sonic" seem to be having a long term spat, and the intervention yesterday seems to have complicated their already fragile relationship.

I think I might do a PHD in messageboard politics.

Don't think its shown us in a very good light (not Easy 10) on there. The really offensive threads have now been deleted.

It has however been very entertaining to observe. Almost as entertaining as the Girls Aloud? messageboard take over last year one afternoon at work.

I understand why we are having trouble building a stadium now.

There are some really anti-Albion people in Brighton.

 

[Yorkie]

Yes, BUT

The regular users have got a bit paranoid and have been blaming each over over the last few days.

Don't think its shown us in a very good light ( not Easy 10).. The really offensive threads have now been deleted.

It has however been very entertaining to observe. I understand why we are having trouble building a stadium now. There are some really anti-Albion people in Brighton.

Tell me about it. I have a half brother living in Saltdean who doesn't have a clue.
Most of it is down to ignorance.

 

[clapham_gull]

What I've been genuinely surprised about on there is the hatred towards the club, but they are sadly missing out.

I work with people who have no interest in football at all, and they find it really surprising that me and my brother make the effort to go to away games and buy a season ticket etc..

But I explain it like this. I speak to a wide variety of people, often strangers from different backgrounds, with different views and yet I know I can strike up a conversation because there is always common ground - Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.

I've even doing it now - Hello Yorkie , had a good day?, do you think we'll get Falmer ?

These people I work with then understand, and are a little bit jealous.

 

[Yorkie]

Hello clapham_gull

Yes we are certainly varied and not 'working class good for nothings' as I saw posted there.

These people are incredible.

 

[SussexSpur]

What I've been genuinely surprised about on there is the hatred towards the club, but they are sadly missing out.

I work with people who have no interest in football at all, and they find it really surprising that me and my brother make the effort to go to away games and buy a season ticket etc..

But I explain it like this. I speak to a wide variety of people, often strangers from different backgrounds, with different views and yet I know I can strike up a conversation because there is always common ground - Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.

I've even doing it now - Hello Yorkie , had a good day?, do you think we'll get Falmer ?

These people I work with then understand, and are a little bit jealous.

Hope you'll forgive me for taking this out of the immediate Falmer context, but completely agree with that sentiment.
Towards the end of last season, chatting with fellow Spurs fans about whether we'd renew season tickets - the consensus was yes, despite general pessimism.
Mainly because the most common explanation was: "Well - what better way is there to spend a Saturday afternoon - watch some footy, have drinks with your mates, enjoy the atmosphere? Plenty of worse ways to waste your time, anyway."
Yes, there's always (or often) something to moan about, but I feel truly sorry for those strange people who feel no engagement with football whatsoever.
In fact, it always strikes me as somewhat suspicious, in fact.
Like saying you don't like The Beatles.
As for actual anti-football passions such as some of those mentioned. . . The mind boggles. My mum, who has a husband and four sons, and a brother, and had parents, all completely obsessed by football and talking of little else, might express a weary sigh every so often, not sharing the sentiment - but still recognises, it's what makes people happy. So, so, so many people happy.
And what can be so wrong about a game that may seem inherently antagonistic, but when you look at the world and the common language football speaks, reveals itself to be at heart one of life's greatest uniting forces?
"No loss to the country" - pah. Planning inspectors, more like.

 

[clapham_gull]

Totally agree Sussex Spur..

But take a minute to read the Evening Argus forum and you'll see what we're up against.

There are a fair number of people within Brighton who are quite happy for the club to disappear.

 

[smudge]

Totally agree Sussex Spur..

But take a minute to read the Evening Argus forum and you'll see what we're up against.
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There are a fair number of people within Brighton who are quite happy for the club to disappear.

Are they originally from Brighton though? I doubt it.
Anyone who grew up here knows how important the club is to the town & how hard the supporters have fought to keep the club alive.

When I read the Argus I realise how many people who can make decisions about what goes on in Brighton actually come from somewhere else. They've moved here from some place that didn't make them happy....now they're here making decisions that don't make us happy.

67 thousand of us voted for Falmer, now let's f*****g have it!

 

[SussexSpur]

Totally agree Sussex Spur..

But take a minute to read the Evening Argus forum and you'll see what we're up against.

There are a fair number of people within Brighton who are quite happy for the club to disappear.

Yes, have been browsing, though too much gets just too depressing.
I know a few people complain about an NSC clique, but that board just seems stultifying.
So many arguments which anyone here could demolish in an instant, but the one that's just made my eyes question what they were seeing was the rant about it not really being a "community" stadium. One, because "only" 61,000 had voted for it. And two, because it would probably "only" be there for football games and concerts. (Never mind the attached facilities, of course.)
Well, even if that were true, that sounds to me like pretty good criteria for a community facility. The Brighton Centre may not be the most beautiful building in the world and I agree with plans to replace it - but replace it, yes - if it was bulldozed now and replaced with nowt, people would start missing it, even for its crappy Eighties revival/Wet Wet Wet/Gabrielle gigs which seem to unaccountably pull in the crowds (yep, I hate 'em, but realise there are many who disagree with me and you've got to serve them too). Wembley Arena, near where I'm originally from - again, an imperfect venue and I could reel off a list of improvements I'd make the day the world wises up and elects me all-ruling leader of the universe, but even the most snooty opponent couldn't argue it doesn't provide a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
As would a major new Brighton and Hove venue at Falmer. Not least for East Sussex's one flagship football club (and don't forget the surprising, scandalous fact West Sussex is one of only SIX English counties without a football club among the league's 92).
Anyway, you all know all this. But am just letting off a bit of steam. Was at a meeting the other day celebrating the long-awaited signs of progress at Embassy Court which made me think how, for such a supposedly progressive city, there are just so many places in Brighton and Hove which have been allowed to stagnate embarrassingly - no stadium; West Pier; King Alfred; Aquarium Terraces; til now (hopefully). Embassy Court. And on and on.
Rant over.