If you look at anything the club puts on Instagram, the comments below immediately start flooding in from particular nationalities about ‘their’ player at the Albion. Aggressive, blinkered, demanding. Why isn’t he starting every game. Brighton are disrespecting him etc. Nothing to do with what the club’s social media team has actually just posted. I first noticed it when we signed Jahanbaksh, but now it’s endemic.
It’s wierd, but it’s made me realise the huge degree of change in what constitutes a “fanbase” once a club reaches the PL. I imagine this is universal across the PL too, not just a Brighton thing.
