"Long suffering fans"

[Storer68]

Have you started on the ground expansion of the SoL yet. I see that you have permission to take capacity up to 64,000.

I must say I'm looking forward to seeing nearly 40,000 empty seats

 

[Hove&Albion F.C]

Completely agree with what everyones been saying on here- But there are a few premiership teams i would hate to support, and despite our problems am thankful i support the albion.

Aston Villa prime example; what the f""k have they done in the last ten years! one of my housemates supports em and was 'boasting' that they are now 6 points (or something) off 6th place. Woo-bloody-hoo!! Terminally midtable premiership teams complete with plastic, fickle fans such as Villa have to be the worst teams to support, imo. At least in the football league you've got the excitement of playoff places, promotion and relegation. The gap in class in the Premiership has made it so boring and predictable imo!

 

[The Bandit]

Have you started on the ground expansion of the SoL yet. I see that you have permission to take capacity up to 64,000.

I must say I'm looking forward to seeing nearly 40,000 empty seats

No thats incorrect. We have planning permission to extend the stadium capacity to 56,000. Obviously that work has been put on hold as we are skint and unable to attract that number of fans at present! The potential capacity of the SoL is 66,000 if all the work is complete on it. (This will only happen if England win the world cup bid).

Why your vendetta against Sunderland? Magpie in disguise?

 

[Storer68]

No thats incorrect. We have planning permission to extend the stadium capacity to 56,000. Obviously that work has been put on hold as we are skint and unable to attract that number of fans at present! The potential capacity of the SoL is 66,000 if all the work is complete on it. (This will only happen if England win the world cup bid).

Why your vendetta against Sunderland? Magpie in disguise?

Ugh! The thought!

No vendetta at all. in fact I quite like Soondland and I thinkithe SoL is a fine arena, if a little souless. (And your stewarding is a disgrace!) but miles better that St JP.
Although it does lend itself to being the subject of a harmless yet humourous pun.

However, most fans in the NE (exclusing Hartlepool from this obviously) have a distictly inflated sense of their own sef importance.

If you realy want to see the word "Stadium" used in its most bizarre sense, wait til tomorrow.

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

Good reply storer68 I'll retract some of my earlier comments.
SEAGULLS!!!

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Completely agree with what everyones been saying on here- But there are a few premiership teams i would hate to support, and despite our problems am thankful i support the albion.

Aston Villa prime example; what the f""k have they done in the last ten years! one of my housemates supports em and was 'boasting' that they are now 6 points (or something) off 6th place. Woo-bloody-hoo!! Terminally midtable premiership teams complete with plastic, fickle fans such as Villa have to be the worst teams to support, imo. At least in the football league you've got the excitement of playoff places, promotion and relegation. The gap in class in the Premiership has made it so boring and predictable imo!

Id swap places with Villa.

International footballers, plenty of money. The Holt End is bigger then Withdean for a start.

 

[Beach Hut]

I moved back from Birmingham to Brighton just before my eldest's first birthday.

There was no way I could suffer him supporting Villa or worse still singing "Keep Right On to the End of the Road"

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I moved back from Birmingham to Brighton just before my eldest's first birthday.

There was no way I could suffer him supporting Villa or worse still singing "Keep Right On to the End of the Road"

Some of my family are Villa fans.

Id rather be a Blue Nose then a Villain though. I actually think Keep Right On is a great song, especially when a packed St Andrews is singing it.

 

[Simster]

West Brom is the best Birmingham team. Proper honest fans without the trouble that BCFC attract and the Spurs-esque whinging of AVFC fans.

Oh and it's arguable whether THE Albion would have been formed if it wasn't for WBA.

 

[Beach Hut]

Some of my family are Villa fans.

Id rather be a Blue Nose then a Villain though. I actually think Keep Right On is a great song, especially when a packed St Andrews is singing it.

An opinion I do not share I'm afraid.

Did my 5 years there and that was enough, time to repatriate.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

West Brom is not really a Brum team. I know it is a suburb of Brum but regarded more as being part of the black country.

(I think)

 

[Simster]

West Brom is not really a Brum team. I know it is a suburb of Brum but regarded more as being part of the black country.

(I think)

A third of the ground is in Birmingham, the rest is in the county of the West Midlands. Also, the Hawthorns is actually closer than St Andrews to Villa Park.

 

[Yorkie]

West Brom is not really a Brum team. I know it is a suburb of Brum but regarded more as being part of the black country.

(I think)

Wet Brom and Wolverhampton are regarded as the Black Country. They are also the other side of the M6

 

[Beach Hut]

The only mildly amusing thing about football in my time there was the crass inability of West Midlands Constabulary to miss the point about the many thousands of flyers posted around the city inviting Blues fans to a fancy dress party at Selhurst Park which meant "riot"

 

[Beach Hut]

West Brom and Wolverhampton are regarded as the Black Country. They are also the other side of the M6

No the black country was OK - the themed pubs were great, Crooked House and Desperate Dan's Pie Factory.

Not forgetting the infamous attraction - Dudley Zoo

 

[Brighton Breezy]

The only mildly amusing thing about football in my time there was the crass inability of West Midlands Constabulary to miss the point about the many thousands of flyers posted around the city inviting Blues fans to a fancy dress party at Selhurst Park which meant "riot"

I went to that game.

The zulus were hanging about outside the Sainsbury's End from very early on.

Was quite funny seeing ###### fighting with The Pink Panther and a gang of Nuns.

 

[Beach Hut]

I went to that game.

The zulus were hanging about outside the Sainsbury's End from very early on.

Was quite funny seeing ###### fighting with The Pink Panther and a gang of Nuns.

Possibly the funniest photos were Adolf Hitler and The Vicar marauding through the away stand when it kicked off

Probably not politically correct now but at the time hilarious

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Literally everyone was in fancy dress. I remember a gorilla giving one eagles fan a right kicking.

Not funny when you think about it because it was one of the biggest organised shows of violence...but cant help but find it hilarious.

 

[Beach Hut]

Regardless of the violence it was very very funny at the time.

Evil lot the Zulus (to say the least).

 

[Ernest]

The only long suffering fan I know is the one who sits next to that idiot Beach Hut every week.
The poor fella deserves a medal, still at least he hasn't got to put up with the brat as well for a few weeks