You don’t think the atmosphere at the start added to things? Genuinely? Paired with the performance, it was overwhelming for Chelsea.
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[Albion] Will you be booing Potter and Chelsea on Saturday?
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Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
The atmosphere absolutely, but didn’t think the booing part of it was that significant - roaring our team on as they took it to them, definitely.
We were brilliantly set up and prepared though, tactically spot on, from kick off we were ready, I think regardless of atmosphere the players were well prepared for this one.
Bore off it was absolutely part of it. Cucurella got lost in it. Completely broke him. Solly put the sword in.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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Potter seemed really salty that he was on the end of the sort of atmosphere that he would have appreciated the Amex giving the opposition when he was the home manager.
Some advice for him from 1913:
Some folks as come to Sussex,
They reckons as they know –
A durn sight better what to do
Than simple folks, like me and you,
Could possibly suppose.
But them as comes to Sussex,
They mustn't push and shove,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druv!
Some advice for him from 1913:
Some folks as come to Sussex,
They reckons as they know –
A durn sight better what to do
Than simple folks, like me and you,
Could possibly suppose.
But them as comes to Sussex,
They mustn't push and shove,
For Sussex will be Sussex,
And Sussex won't be druv!
How do you explain a 35minute and 45minute sub for Cucurella in previous games ? Or was he nervous about this upcoming fixture ?
He’s been poor in every game for Chelsea.
But also significantly richer
Half Time Pies
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Bore Off
A word used by unintelligent and simple people who are unable to come up with a witty response and so turn to this phrase instead.
(Urban Dictionary)ROBS BROTHER
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That's the nub of it - money
Lenny Rider
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At 58 got the T shirt old love
Lenny Rider
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Lenny Rider
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Is that you Paul Cammillin?
John Byrnes Mullet
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I booed and I bloody enjoyed every minute of it.
- Oct 12, 2022
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Well, I only returned home from “tasks” after the match had started and stuck it on the radio. I booed like billy-o from the sofa, until I realised we were already a goal up, then I mainly just laughed. I feel I’ve got something important out of my system, and can go back to hating Chelsea in a more regular, impersonal style going forward.
Perfidious Albion
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I said I wouldn’t, but I did..... and I was only listening to the radio!
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You are well off the pace here chap,..... and for info, Vancouver actually.
- Jun 27, 2012
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At my age I’m often the pace. Yes. @Bozza has rightly shared the ins/outs of how we actually hired Barber earlier in the thread.
brighton_tom
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Whether you agree with the hostile reception or not, and whether you showed genuine hostility or just some panto villain style stick the return of the turncoats was always going produce a tough atmosphere for them. It was inevitable. Im surprised that the media are suggestion it would have been anything else. I guess they're just trying to make it a controversial story, and paint Brighton fans in a negative way. I loved GP when he was here and am still very thankful for his work, but after leaving us mid season for moneys boys Chelsea and taking all our coaching staff (and now our head of recruitment) he's hardly going to be Mr popular. And in football, be it the ref or an opposition player who's done something vaguely wrong, football fans love to dramatize the story of it make them the villain for the day. One bad decision and its 'wanker, wanker, wanker' to the ref. Or one bad tackle from an opposition player and he get boo'd on every subsequent touch of the ball. So for Potter's return it was always going to be like this. Given what's happened I'd have been more surprised if we had all given GP a big round of applause as he walked onto the pitch, and treated him/Chelsea to a nice afternoon on the coast (and you can bet that the score wouldnt have been 4-1 if we had treated them like that). Maybe a warmer reception would have been the case if he had left in a summer break and only taken Bjorn/Billy with him.
I tried to think of another manager who had left a club our size to go onto bigger and better things at another Prem club and I thought of Pochettino from Southampton to Spurs. And unsurprisingly the reception on his return sounds as if it was the same...
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I tried to think of another manager who had left a club our size to go onto bigger and better things at another Prem club and I thought of Pochettino from Southampton to Spurs. And unsurprisingly the reception on his return sounds as if it was the same...
Mauricio Pochettino forgives Southampton boo-boys
Mauricio Pochettino admitted he can understand why Southampton fans resent his move to Tottenham but will not let that stop him savouring his time on the south coast.
Whether you agree with the hostile reception or not, and whether you showed genuine hostility or just some panto villain style stick the return of the turncoats was always going produce a tough atmosphere for them. It was inevitable. Im surprised that the media are suggestion it would have been anything else. I guess they're just trying to make it a controversial story, and paint Brighton fans in a negative way. I loved GP when he was here and am still very thankful for his work, but after leaving us mid season for moneys boys Chelsea and taking all our coaching staff (and now our head of recruitment) he's hardly going to be Mr popular. And in football, be it the ref or an opposition player who's done something vaguely wrong, football fans love to dramatize the story of it make them the villain for the day. One bad decision and its 'wanker, wanker, wanker' to the ref. Or one bad tackle from an opposition player and he get boo'd on every subsequent touch of the ball. So for Potter's return it was always going to be like this. Given what's happened I'd have been more surprised if we had all given GP a big round of applause as he walked onto the pitch, and treated him/Chelsea to a nice afternoon on the coast (and you can bet that the score wouldnt have been 4-1 if we had treated them like that). Maybe a warmer reception would have been the case if he had left in a summer break and only taken Bjorn/Billy with him.
I tried to think of another manager who had left a club our size to go onto bigger and better things at another Prem club and I thought of Pochettino from Southampton to Spurs. And unsurprisingly the reception on his return sounds as if it was the same...
Mauricio Pochettino forgives Southampton boo-boys
Mauricio Pochettino admitted he can understand why Southampton fans resent his move to Tottenham but will not let that stop him savouring his time on the south coast.
Compare to Potter, mopo was only at the club for a year as well.
Mopo is a class act though.
drew
Drew
Guessing there were some booing with genuine vitriol but I would suggest that for the majority, it was pure pantomine. It has to be said that, for those there, it also felt like the it was effective.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Whether you agree with the hostile reception or not, and whether you showed genuine hostility or just some panto villain style stick the return of the turncoats was always going produce a tough atmosphere for them. It was inevitable. Im surprised that the media are suggestion it would have been anything else. I guess they're just trying to make it a controversial story, and paint Brighton fans in a negative way. I loved GP when he was here and am still very thankful for his work, but after leaving us mid season for moneys boys Chelsea and taking all our coaching staff (and now our head of recruitment) he's hardly going to be Mr popular. And in football, be it the ref or an opposition player who's done something vaguely wrong, football fans love to dramatize the story of it make them the villain for the day. One bad decision and its 'wanker, wanker, wanker' to the ref. Or one bad tackle from an opposition player and he get boo'd on every subsequent touch of the ball. So for Potter's return it was always going to be like this. Given what's happened I'd have been more surprised if we had all given GP a big round of applause as he walked onto the pitch, and treated him/Chelsea to a nice afternoon on the coast (and you can bet that the score wouldnt have been 4-1 if we had treated them like that). Maybe a warmer reception would have been the case if he had left in a summer break and only taken Bjorn/Billy with him.
I tried to think of another manager who had left a club our size to go onto bigger and better things at another Prem club and I thought of Pochettino from Southampton to Spurs. And unsurprisingly the reception on his return sounds as if it was the same...
Mauricio Pochettino forgives Southampton boo-boys
Mauricio Pochettino admitted he can understand why Southampton fans resent his move to Tottenham but will not let that stop him savouring his time on the south coast.
broadly agree with just about all of that.
I do think, though, that most of the atmosphere was created by the will to beat Chelsea, rather than pure hostility towards Chelsea - subtle difference. This one mattered!
with the Cucurella thing, it’s easier to accept it when - as with White and Bissouma - there is more of an acceptance that the time is right for someone to move on. With Cucurella, he precipitated it much more himself.
And the Potter thing would not have rankled so much, for me at least, had he just taken with him the coaching staff he’d brought. The total clearout including Ben Roberts and all-time club super-legend Bruno made it far worse. The Winstanley thing is the icing on the cake.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
I had a good go, thoroughly enjoyable afternoon's entertainment.