And unbeknown to BHA he's agreed to meet one of the ****ers for a nice quiet drink in the north stand
Not sure about this Brighton 'football mad' city lark tbh Mr BHA, unless you're counting all the Arsenal and Chelsea fans. I've lived down here for the past 15 years and, fair enough, they now get the gates with the new stadium, but you hardly see a Brighton shirt about the place apart from on match days- certainly not compared to the amount of kids you see wearing City shirts in Hull....maybe you've been in Crawley too long. It's all very polite and friendly though in it's Soccer am footie family fun feel- we should feel right at home after our recent tour of the Premier League.
Don't totally disagree hovetiger, but you do see a lot of shirts around Brighton, not that I approve, bit embarrassing to wear a footy shirt in my opinion. But we've had a huge following through the years at Brighton, without the need for the shirt wearing brigade. Had the best average crowds at BHA in the whole of the Championship for two years (out of the four we've been there).. we had a huge local following in the Div 1 years and most of us old b**tards are still there. But I'm not here to defend our number of supporters, I was originally here to dispel this Darren idiot, but have just enjoyed talking to Hull people.
Not knocking the fanbase of Brighton; as you say, in terms of numbers you get the highest gates in the Championship, along with Derby, and in terms of recent history you are one of the few clubs whose fans have been through as much turmoil as ours. It just seems the culture of the city isn't as reliant on football as most of the other cities I've lived in; you definitely don't get the feel of it being a football city in the same way you do in a lot of northern cities, or even in parts of London. I meet as many non-Brighton fans (mainly I guess because of the numbers of people who move here) as I do Brighton ones., and a lot of Brighton fans seem to come in from other parts of Sussex on matchday. These factors together mean that Brighton doesn't appear as visible as a football city in it's day to day culture, at least to my eyes.
Sussex is our huge target area hovetiger, you live here you understand. That is the huge fanbase we call on, the Sussex one. Great for our club, so yeah I understand what you say about colours in Brighton. But we all turn up at games, and it is a really county wide fan base to be proud of.
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You should ask OLM if you can borrow his scooter for your trip. You might be able to set off a new milenium riot.
No wonder he left his scooter, it is far to big for him going on the size his footmarks to the left. Poor little bugger.
Kids in Hull weren't wearing City stuff until we got into the premier league Our attendances are woeful for a team that's had reasonable success in recent times. And you still see idiots wearing Barca or Real or United or Chelsea, & now Man City shirts instead of City's.
From the outside looking in Hull dosent seem like Hull is a football city either. You have 2 rugby league sides playing in the top division. I remember going to boothery park about 15 years ago & there was about 5000 there…
