Are Crawley now the club of West Sussex?

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Crawley's fans will always be the die hards who watched them in their non league days, (hard
core of about 1,000-1,500 max) plus Premiership fans who have got bored or can no longer afford Chelski etc...

Never ever seen a Crawley shirt on my travels around Sussex.

 

[pauli cee]

i'd hazard a guess that worthing fc will always be more popular than crawley in worthing, with the albion always obviously coming 1st...

 

[Buzzer]

i'd hazard a guess that worthing fc will always be more popular than crawley in worthing, with the albion always obviously coming 1st...

Yep and as with probably most other footie clubs in Sussex, most Worthing fans are also Albion fans too. I think it's also true for Horsham, Eastbourne Borough and Lewes. I think people from Sussex just don't view Crawley as one of our own.

 

[pauli cee]

Yep and as with probably most other footie clubs in Sussex, most Worthing fans are also Albion fans too. I think it's also true for Horsham, Eastbourne Borough and Lewes. I think people from Sussex just don't view Crawley as one of our own.

exactly this, it does seem.....a bit too far north.....and a tad bit too close to croydon, and a bit of a dive!

 

[Paddy B]

Yep and as with probably most other footie clubs in Sussex, most Worthing fans are also Albion fans too. I think it's also true for Horsham, Eastbourne Borough and Lewes. I think people from Sussex just don't view Crawley as one of our own.

This is true. Crawley has far more in common with that place up the A23 (you know the one that it's own residents set fire to in the summer) than Sussex towns.

 

[VAL1850]

So.. What colour are Crawley?

 

[BrickTamland]

Never seen a Crawley shirt in Worthing

 

[Buzzer]

This is true. Crawley has far more in common with that place up the A23 (you know the one that it's own residents set fire to in the summer) than Sussex towns.

Yep. A good test would be would you like the Sussex club to do well in the FA Cup and would you go and watch them. I think if Worthing, Lewes, Eastbourne or Horsham did well I'd be trying to get tickets for the game and would cheer them on. Crawley, on the other hand, I've never cared about. How do other people feel about it? Also do the other Sussex clubs play and sing GOSBTS? I know Worthing used to come out onto the pitch to GOSBTS. Dunno about the others.

(It's not a pop at Crawley, by the way. I just don't feel any kinship with them.)

 

[loco61]

good question ...i seriously dont know... what colour do crawley play in?

 

[pauli cee]

i do know a very hot girl from crawley mind, which i guess does give me some kind of kinship, tho i guess that doesn't really need to extend to football tho...

 

[Paddy B]

Yep. A good test would be would you like the Sussex club to do well in the FA Cup and would you go and watch them. I think if Worthing, Lewes, Eastbourne or Horsham did well I'd be trying to get tickets for the game and would cheer them on. Crawley, on the other hand, I've never cared about. How do other people feel about it? Also do the other Sussex clubs play and sing GOSBTS? I know Worthing used to come out onto the pitch to GOSBTS. Dunno about the others.

(It's not a pop at Crawley, by the way. I just don't feel any kinship with them.)

Oh my post definitely WAS a pop at Crawley! Not a surprise though given my location!

 

[Shooting Star]

Crawley can f*** right off back to the lower leagues and never come back for all I'm concerned. We're the team of Sussex, all others are imposters.

 

[Working class pride]

This is true. Crawley has far more in common with that place up the A23 (you know the one that it's own residents set fire to in the summer) than Sussex towns.

What is a sussex town in your eyes? Brighton was a slum town in the 30s, a bedsit town until the 1990s and its hard to get away from the fact that its a drug town today. Newhaven is still a working dock, as is Shoreham. Hastings was a fishing town, but now its more tourist if its anything at all as its in hard times. Worthing / Eastbourne, like Brighton, is still tourist based. Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath are there because of the railway, and Crawley was built after the war for the airport. Then there are historic towns such as lewes and Arundel, as well as the Cinque Ports. Sussex is very diverse, from towns, to country. Crawley? Always an Albion town, with the Crawley Seagulls flag being seen alongside the Newhaven "Gateway to Europe" and Hikers Rest BHA flag at many an away game. In answer to the post, there is also no such thing as east or West Sussex. There is, as all proper Sussex people know, just Sussex.

 

[SeagullSongs]

If it wasn't for the pictures in the Argus (of which Albion are the back cover), I wouldn't even know what colour Crawley play in! Never seen anyone wearing a replica shirt.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

I live in Haywards Heath and havent seen one Crawley shirt but seen loads of BHA and a few CPFC.

This!

 

[catfish]

I know one Crawley fan in Worthing. I know 10,000 Brighton fans who live in Worthing.

Blimey. Do you know me? If not, that's 10,001 of us!

 

[catfish]

Yep and as with probably most other footie clubs in Sussex, most Worthing fans are also Albion fans too. I think it's also true for Horsham, Eastbourne Borough and Lewes. I think people from Sussex just don't view Crawley as one of our own.

Spot on.

 

[albionalex]

i will support Horsham, Worthing and Billingshurst Under 18s ahead of Crawley.

As an ex-player of Billingshurst Under 18's your support is greatly appreciated.

When I'm not at uni I visit Crawley regularly and the only Crawley Town FC related thing I saw there was Sergio Torres!

 

[Paddy B]

good question ...i seriously dont know... what colour do crawley play in?

Well their nickname is The Reds or (ahem) Red Devils

 

[Crennis]

I saw a chap in an Albion shirt in Pompey at the weekend, this must prove that BHA are now the club of Hampshire too... or is my logic flawed?