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Jamesey's Veteran View - Why I'm not going to Brighton game
by Jamesey - September 13 2002
The omens are evil for the long-awaited Seaweed clash. Jamesey includes himself out...
Football violence has always been one of my bugbears. Unlike many young HOL members, I am of an age to have personally experienced all the mindless thuggery of the '70s and '80s, so whether you agree with me or not, I am talking experience not theories.
All the signs that I can see indicate - to use the language of the hooligan - it going off big time at the October Brighton game.
Even normally sane Palace supporters seem prepared for violence and are prepared to retaliate in kind.
My first ever encounter with football violence was at a Brighton away game in the '70s. Our vehicle, a transit van, was stopped and searched by a police roadblock on the Brighton outskirts.
Inside the ground we were pelted with pebbles from the beach and, but for a police escort, would have been attacked on our exit from the away pen in the Goldstone ground.
It was a horrible and unpleasant experience. My only other experiences in a similar vein have been at... need I say it, Millwall, where we were routinely attacked for the ultimate sin of walking out of the away supporters area.
I started off being a football supporter because it was fun. Even when the team's playing badly and losing it can still be fun in a perverse sort of way, especially for those of us old enough to have our happy memories to keep us going (Cup final, Premiership victories, Ian Wright, Malcolm Allison, etc).
So thinking about the Brighton fixture, I foresee a grim scenario of fighting, obscene name calling, jeering, scuffling, rioting at the rail stations and on the streets before and afterwards.
I am not in any way trying to start a campaign to stay away from the game, but merely stating my own view. Is it going to be fun? No. So I'm not going.
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Jamesey's Veteran View - Why I'm not going to Brighton game
by Jamesey - September 13 2002
The omens are evil for the long-awaited Seaweed clash. Jamesey includes himself out...
Football violence has always been one of my bugbears. Unlike many young HOL members, I am of an age to have personally experienced all the mindless thuggery of the '70s and '80s, so whether you agree with me or not, I am talking experience not theories.
All the signs that I can see indicate - to use the language of the hooligan - it going off big time at the October Brighton game.
Even normally sane Palace supporters seem prepared for violence and are prepared to retaliate in kind.
My first ever encounter with football violence was at a Brighton away game in the '70s. Our vehicle, a transit van, was stopped and searched by a police roadblock on the Brighton outskirts.
Inside the ground we were pelted with pebbles from the beach and, but for a police escort, would have been attacked on our exit from the away pen in the Goldstone ground.
It was a horrible and unpleasant experience. My only other experiences in a similar vein have been at... need I say it, Millwall, where we were routinely attacked for the ultimate sin of walking out of the away supporters area.
I started off being a football supporter because it was fun. Even when the team's playing badly and losing it can still be fun in a perverse sort of way, especially for those of us old enough to have our happy memories to keep us going (Cup final, Premiership victories, Ian Wright, Malcolm Allison, etc).
So thinking about the Brighton fixture, I foresee a grim scenario of fighting, obscene name calling, jeering, scuffling, rioting at the rail stations and on the streets before and afterwards.
I am not in any way trying to start a campaign to stay away from the game, but merely stating my own view. Is it going to be fun? No. So I'm not going.
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Email Jamesey with any of your comments to Jevans3704@aol.com
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ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
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what a load of old crap
what a load of old crap
Bakesy
Farting for ENGLAND!!!
ben andrews' girlfriend said:
Absolutely
Garbage
The British National Party
New member
ben andrews' girlfriend said:
Elaborate?
Dave the OAP
Well-known member
Simster said:
I agree it was a nasty experience made wholley by the MET at the station, but we saw no trouble at all, only a few brighton chavs who reconed themselves shouting at a couple of kids wearing palace shirts.
this is just another example of some muppet trying to stir things up and give the neanderthals some sort of buzz.
Kent Seagull
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I'm not going either now, not if there might be some name calling!
sneakychef
New member
The only trobule I saw on the 26/10 was palace throwing coins (don't know how they could afford to do it) over the police. Just after the bloke on the pa system helpfully told the fans all the local bars had been restocked with missiles -sorry I mean bottled beers. All the Brighton fans I saw just wanted to get back to the station, hopefully faster than the world record police herding of a half metre an hour.
The Large One
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gvce26 said:
Is there such a thing in existence?
26/10 was pants. Herded into a pub in south London, then told by the Met that we could not leave and would be 'escorted' onto a train. Everyone treated like sardines in a small area outside the pub, irrespective of whether you were a woman or a kid. Met at the Palace end by a bunch of their goons who tried to break through the Met lines. About as much fun as sand in a condom, the result did not help either though.