pompey fans

[dolphin09]

pompey fans are taking over littlehampton and its doing my head in, there everywere. they are starting to think it is a pompey area wich it aint. f***ing hate them with a passion. Rant over thankyou.

 

[steward 433]

They will all disappear if Pompey get relegated

 

[strings]

I agree.

I come from LA (although I don't live there anymore). Every time I head back to my parents, I notice more and more Portsmouth fans. It is horrible - they all supported arsenal until 2 years ago!

 

[Dirty Dave]

here here. Can't see this happening though

 

[scotjem]

On Sunday it looked like they'd taken over all of the South-East. I'm glad to be back home in a Brighton stronghold.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

What has happened to the Rustington Massive?

 

[dolphin09]

I agree.

I come from LA (although I don't live there anymore). Every time I head back to my parents, I notice more and more Portsmouth fans. It is horrible - they all supported arsenal until 2 years ago!

Tell me about it i no 2 who were man u before but now think there pompey through and through. That is why brighton fans are the most loyal after all we have been through.

 

[strings]

Yup - I left LCS in 2001 and I have seen a few 'lifelong' Arse/Man U fans walking about in their Pompey shirts on my occasional visits back.

I am glad that it isn't just me, who thinks that my hometown has changed from Albion (just about, it was never an albion stronghold) to Pompey territory. I always used to think that if you were form East of the Arun, you were albion.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Yup - I left LCS in 2001 and I have seen a few 'lifelong' Arse/Man U fans walking about in their Pompey shirts on my occasional visits back.


I am glad that it isn't just me, who thinks that my hometown has changed from Albion (just about, it was never an albion stronghold) to Pompey territory. I always used to think that if you were form East of the Arun, you were albion.

Not just East of the Arun if you live in Sussex you should be Albion.

Pompey are scum and i must say they piss me right off walking through the streets of Sussex in their shirts.


I have a mate from Littlehampton who is Pompey through and through he has never been to a match until the cup final.He loves Pompey and Harry how different things were just a few years ago.

 

[Roadrunner]

I've lived in LA all my 35 years and, in terms of fans who actually go to the games rather than watch them on SKY, it's always been predominantly Albion with a few Chelsea and Pompey thrown in for good (bad?) measure. As already mentioned, The Arun has historically been the boundary between us and them, rather than the county boundary. Bognor and Chi have always been Pompey territory.

You definitely see a lot more Pompey shirts around these parts than used to be the case, but I'd say that Albion are just about holding on and will pull away again once Falmer is built. That's one of the reasons that the new Junior Seagulls initiative is so vital.

At the end of the day, Brighton is a much more attractive place to visit in so many ways when compared to Portsmouth and only our lack of a decent ground, coupled with Pompey's recent success, has led to the current state of affairs.

In the late 80's, before I started going to Albion away games I actually had a season ticket for both Pompey and Albion, so could just as easily have ended up a Pompey fan. I guess this might explain why I don't have the pathological hatred of Pompey that most other LA based Albion fans have. Even though I thought that Pompey had a brighter future than BHA at the time, there was something instinctive about choosing Albion above Pompey when the time came to decide upon one club to follow home & away.

 

[1066gull]

you should see eastbourne
its all chelsea

 

[Strike]

you should see eastbourne
its all chelsea

Really? I always thought of it as a Albion town (though was aware of a sprinkling of Scousers, and the odd Arsenal shirt on my occasional visits there), compared to Crawley which is heaving with Chelsea and Gooner buggers as has been the case for the last 50-60 years up here, though a few of us Seagulls still reside in the town. I think the Chelsea in Eastbourne might be holidaymakers escaping from so called wonderful areas like Tooting, Battersea, Streatham, Clapham etc.

 

[User removed 4]

Really? I always thought of it as a Albion town (though was aware of a sprinkling of Scousers, and the odd Arsenal shirt on my occasional visits there), compared to Crawley which is heaving with Chelsea and Gooner buggers as has been the case for the last 50-60 years up here, though a few of us Seagulls still reside in the town. I think the Chelsea in Eastbourne might be holidaymakers escaping from so called wonderful areas like Tooting, Battersea, Streatham, Clapham etc.

i left tooting for more genteel climes , but id still rather live there than a shithole like crawley.

 

[Stat Brother]

What has happened to the Rustington Massive?

I'm over here.

 

[Stat Brother]

Although is the only genuine pompey fan about.
Little fat bloke with Max Wall hair.
Every weekend 15 years ago he was out and about wearing his colours, getting abuse from everybody.

I'd imagine if I were him I'd be quite pi$$ed off, with a load of 'plastics' turning up stealling his thunder.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

I would still very much class LA (and the surrounding area) as Albion territory. On the day of the Gary Hart testimonial I go the train over from Rustington to Goring to goto my parents (and then onto the game). As I was crossing by the mini-roundabout just south of Angmering station a car came past with driven by a bloke in an Albion shirt and a personalised Albion number plate. Then the next car but 1 had an Albion sticker on the back of the car.

After getting off at Goring station and cutting through the passage to Coleridge Close a bloke drove by wearing one of those retro Albion shirts you can get from TOFFS.

So all this in the space of about 10mins so we are still here out this way.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Littlehampton BHA