LA1972
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More people injured on stairs than by violence
Point = bed wetters crying about hooligans is over reaction
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Does Brighton have a football hooligan firm
- Thread starter Lukeseagulls 123
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More people injured on stairs than by violence
Point = bed wetters crying about hooligans is over reaction
Enjoyed reading this thread, from a purely nostalgic and sentimental point of view.
Never was a big time hoolie, mid to late 80's, knoll estate born and bred was my era (me, a coward and can't fight for shit)
but by todays standards of what people constitute as aggro, my mates and I were Cas Pennant in comparison!
Remember playing Aldershot at the Goldstone, an evening game, and Arsenal, Luton, Oxford, Southend away, Ipswich away last game of season (taking liberties), the fat Wolves fan that hit me so hard that I saw saint Peter! a good friend (dead now) that walked all the way to Stratford police station after playing WHU to wait hours for me to be released (drunk and disorderly, cautioned), not running away from Stoke fans, Bolton fans, Barnsley fans and getting battered only to laugh about it later. Great days, never to be repeated.
Never was a big time hoolie, mid to late 80's, knoll estate born and bred was my era (me, a coward and can't fight for shit)
but by todays standards of what people constitute as aggro, my mates and I were Cas Pennant in comparison!
Remember playing Aldershot at the Goldstone, an evening game, and Arsenal, Luton, Oxford, Southend away, Ipswich away last game of season (taking liberties), the fat Wolves fan that hit me so hard that I saw saint Peter! a good friend (dead now) that walked all the way to Stratford police station after playing WHU to wait hours for me to be released (drunk and disorderly, cautioned), not running away from Stoke fans, Bolton fans, Barnsley fans and getting battered only to laugh about it later. Great days, never to be repeated.
18k views.......................... couldn't make it up
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DR
Nostalgia!
That book "a casual look" is on amazon for £250 second hand and a new copy is £2,500!
LA1972
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I've got a few copies of that book in the loft
Watch from 0.38 seconds to 1.08 lad wearing black ends up on the floor and is helped by others.
I'll bid £10 in cash for one copy?
Hopefully the authors are getting a cut. I went to school with one of them and used to see him out and about. Great lad.
SELL, SELL, SELL (save one)
Pretty pink fairy
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that's crazy !remember having a look at that when it first came out in the book shop which isn't there now, as you go into Churchill square main entrance
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DR
Same here, saw it in the same shop, thought about buying it. what was it £20?
Didn't the club ban it from the shop?
sir albion
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You've just made your point...about 30 mins to late
Pretty pink fairy
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where's Lukeseagulls 123 out of interest, asked the first question and has never joined in
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DR
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DR
They should do a reprint, I could get them a great printing deal! maybe the club would stock it now?
I bought it in a clothes shop in Worthing, didn't see it for sale in Brighton.
Did you say in another thread that you haven't got the book?
seriously though it's a great piece of work, nostalgic look at English football culture. Plenty of interest, even outside of Brighton
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There isn't a snowball in hell's chance of the club stocking it! Reprint is a top idea however.
If it's selling for silly money the author should do it.
In my line of work I could get a great price to print it, if anyone knows who can make this happen let me know, be happy to help
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