[Albion] Did we really...

[NorthstandRacoon]

Balls to them.
Firstly they've not just this second won it. They've already had two matches with a guard of honour. One is enough, celebrate at your home ground all you like, have the open top bus and all that jazz but continually going away and getting fawned over? f*** that.
Second it could easily encourage such groups as The Brighton Kop and that brings shame on the entire sport.
Third some simpering wealthy middle class man who lives in Brighton having moved from nowhere near f***ing Liverpool, with a name like Hugo, will harp on about how you have to admire Liverpool with their history and passion and yada yada yada. No I f***ing don't, fat kids in Liverpool tops were pissing me off way before a billion man United ****s started doing it.
Fourth - At the Amex I had a grown man get up in front of me and go get Gerrard's autograph while he was warming up and come back excited and beaming about it. He did give up his ST a couple of years later but I still had to look at the back of his head and resist the urge to slap him upside it for many hours if my life. The shameful melt.

Excellent post.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Yes in the NS a it was very loud.

bit pathetic really

Good. I also shouted at them to f*** off too.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

can’t stand this kind of post. it’s creeping more and more into the modern game. Things like “Well done Palace, even though we hate you” or “Your city’s blue just like Brighton” when we’re away at City… what are we doing? The English game was built on tribalism, intensity, and a bit of needle. Yeah, it’s not actual hatred most of the time, we all get that. But it’s meant to be fierce. That edge is what makes it.

Honestly, I hate to say it, but I wish we had a bit more of that northern grit half the time. Football is still football up there.

Our away fans “get it” but at home we are a joke sometimes.

Another excellent post. 100% agree.

 

[Giraffe]

I neither booed nor clapped but had I been forced to do one or other I'd have booed. We're Brighton fans, not some bloody fanboy for the big clubs. Screw them.

Might have been different if Ali mac had started.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I really hope we are doing this guard of honour thing.for Palace as well for their magnificent achievement.

Only if our players are doing this during the guard of honour.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Out of interest were you there? If not don't question those that bothered to go. THAT'S TINPOT

Why on earth would you think I wasn't there? I was and I always am for home matches . What a bizarre conclusion to draw.

 

[sakooshi]

How are they horrible? Bit of an overreaction.

The only clubs worth having disdain for are…

Palace
Man Utd
Man City
Millwall
Motherwell
Hashtag Utd
Bognor
TWATs

You forgot about Crawley Town.

 

[um bongo molongo]

When did the whole guard of honour thing become a thing? I’m sure it didn’t happen when I was growing up. Stiff handshake and get on with it.

 

[London Irish]

We did boo them which was probably a bit off as they didn’t cheat or anything like recent champions. But it ain’t deep, it’s football and anyone can boo whatever they want, the booers gave me a chuckle

 

[slartibartfast]

fat kids in Liverpool tops were pissing me off way before a billion man United ****s started doing it.

Exactly !! Perhaps it's an age thing.... Liverpool have been the club I have disliked intensely way before any other... since the early 70s.... certainly by about 1977, when I realised that I wanted Borussia MGB to beat them in the final of the European cup , just to shut kids up in my school. And Ive never lived anywhere near the north west of England. Ive lived in various places, and abroad, and there have ALWAYS been f'ing Liverpool fans in every single school, or work place/office, chirping away about how "special" "they" are, even when sometimes these glory hunting shytes have been South Africans who had never set foot in England, and spent the rest of the time telling me how crap the UK was. I cannot recall a single time that Ive wanted Liverpool to win - Ive loathed them since the 70s.
So ... NO! I didnt clap the bastards onto the pitch, but also , NO, I didnt boo them either. I just sat in my seat with my arms folded.

 

[Greenbag50]

can’t stand this kind of post. it’s creeping more and more into the modern game. Things like “Well done Palace, even though we hate you” or “Your city’s blue just like Brighton” when we’re away at City… what are we doing? The English game was built on tribalism, intensity, and a bit of needle. Yeah, it’s not actual hatred most of the time, we all get that. But it’s meant to be fierce. That edge is what makes it.

Honestly, I hate to say it, but I wish we had a bit more of that northern grit half the time. Football is still football up there.

Our away fans “get it” but at home we are a joke sometimes.

Totally agree…. I’m originally from Scotland as a Rangers fan and have been to Old Firm games home and away and it has to be tribal at home.
You can never let the home team feel at home, ever.