http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=463&fid=221&sty=2&act=1&mid=2117999380Well every other team seems to have had a thread! Imagine how much talk there's going to be when the damned thing opens!
I don't like Brighton. I don't like all the media they've recieved this season. N I certainly don't think they are a bigger club than ourselves.
More disposable income in Brighton? How do you work that one out fact is they are not a bigger our better supported club than us, the excuses for us not progressing are wearing very thin.
To be fair, what that guy wrote wasn't insulting (he's entitled to not like Brighton) - what he said was:Carlisle, meanwhile, resort to their usual gay-bashing:
http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=121&fid=18&sty=2&act=1&mid=2118004942
And this:
"I don't like Brighton. I don't like all the media they've recieved this season. N I certainly don't think they are a bigger club than ourselves."
Most threads here make our supporters look pea brainted too, just without all the homophobic comments.Yes, they come across as pea-brained homophobes don't they?
This is a really fantastic story. 14 years ago, Brighton faced relegation from the Football League, and almost certain oblivion thanks to the behaviour of two of the worst individuals ever to become involved in football: Bill Archer and David Bellotti. The campaign the fans fought to force them out and publicise their club's plight was astonishingly sophisticated; the job Steve Gritt did in somehow keeping them up on the last day of the season despite the worst off-field backdrop it's possible to conceive of amounted to a footballing miracle.
Then came years of miserable groundsharing (notably at Gillingham, 50 miles away), and no possibility of growing the club as long as it was stuck at the Withdean; then came a protracted, incredibly frustrating campaign to finally get Falmer built. A few months ago, because of engineering work, my train from Victoria to Brighton was re-routed through Lewes, and as I passed the new stadium, I could hardly believe my eyes. It is magnificent: a wonderful new home for the club.
Brighton's story is a very rare tale in modern football; one in which the fans took control back from disgraceful owners, saved their club, and have now triumphed. With the success of the side this season, their future has never looked so bright. Hats off to them.
I still hate it when most of the forums think that it's being paid for by the council or sponsorship.