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[Albion] What would you do without the albion?
- Thread starter rebel51
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- Jul 10, 2003
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Interesting question. Had the Albion never existed I may have stuck with my schoolboy crush (*cough* Leeds *cough*), but more likely than not, after moving to Kent in 89, after many years with football not at the front of my mind, I may have drifted towards Gillingham. Or maybe taken up with my dad's team. Millwall.
Luckily however . . . . .
Little different.
Football’s low on my list of interests, the Albion are in my heart but it’s far less than when I was a kid.
Football’s low on my list of interests, the Albion are in my heart but it’s far less than when I was a kid.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
More of an Endeavour man myself.
The Hermit Kingdom
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I can only imagine what our younger fans are experiencing currently when I used to get ecstatic about a win over Wrexham or Crewe back in the Goldstone days. The passion/frustration never leaves you but certainly dilutes somewhat as the decades roll on, in my experience anyway.
61.000+ posts (presumably most about football) would imply slightly different!
I would have supported Torquay United. As a little kid growing up in Devon in the 80s I supported Liverpool for a bit and my Brighton supporting dad said I may never go to Liverpool so either Brighton like him or Torquay as local side. I went for Brighton but still watched quite a bit of Torquay - in fact 1994/95 season I don’t think I missed a home match. Darren Moore was coming through as a kid.
Now I live in the midlands so only get to a few Brighton matches a season and hope for local cup draw (Stoke tickets arrived earlier).
To someone who said you don’t get the same buzz at non-league. I have mates playing in national league north and I took my kids there from a young age and they fell in love with it. I guess drawing Gillingham in a cup match and winning in extra time and then being mascot for the second round match away at Blackpool helped with that though.
Now I live in the midlands so only get to a few Brighton matches a season and hope for local cup draw (Stoke tickets arrived earlier).
To someone who said you don’t get the same buzz at non-league. I have mates playing in national league north and I took my kids there from a young age and they fell in love with it. I guess drawing Gillingham in a cup match and winning in extra time and then being mascot for the second round match away at Blackpool helped with that though.
I’m guessing you have never been on a music thread?
It's almost impossible to answer. If we grow up interested in football, then we're almost certainly going to get hooked one way or another. Whether it's watching Liverpool win the first FA Cup you watched on telly, or the first European Cup, making you a lifelong fan - or whether it be the first (proper) live game you get taken to when a youngster - there will be something that then turns you into following one team or another.
I was lucky in being able to bike / train / bus to the Goldstone - so it was always going to be the Albion for me.
Although, as you may have guessed, my first experiences were in watching Liverpool on TV (winning). So, I think it's the live football that gives you the addiction.
I was lucky in being able to bike / train / bus to the Goldstone - so it was always going to be the Albion for me.
Although, as you may have guessed, my first experiences were in watching Liverpool on TV (winning). So, I think it's the live football that gives you the addiction.
Probably ended up being a plastic Man Utd fan like several of my mates at school were
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
I'm guessing you saw Garry Nelson in your time watching Torquay then? he had a season or two there in the late nineties.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
He was just after I went loads. I stopped going once I got to A level age. I did watch him play for Torquay once but that was in the away end on the absolutely Baltic New Year’s Day fixture 1997 when he got a late winner for Torquay. That was the coldest I ever got at football and I was so hungover I was in a bad way.
I love chatting about almost anything! So many interesting nsc’ers.
A succinct way of describing my feelings is that as a kid I was sad when the last ball was kicked in May. But for many years now I love the close season.
Well nothing would replace Albion where get engrosed in every game before and after. Maybe wife would be pleased. Recent Palace game was good eg. Out with friends for dinner and much stick when got home for spending too much time looking at phone during evening.
In decent weather would watch some local clubs that are doing well. A little put off with local football with lack of loyalty by players and money involved with small gates and sometimes very poor standard whilst behind the scene run by great volunteers
In decent weather would watch some local clubs that are doing well. A little put off with local football with lack of loyalty by players and money involved with small gates and sometimes very poor standard whilst behind the scene run by great volunteers
swindonseagull
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Probably watch Swindon Town which is a bit like BHA 20 years ago ( passing to row Z in front of 5000)
Neville's Breakfast
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FC Brighton of Hove
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Drew
My weekends over the last 50 years would have been considerably more productive.