[Albion] Your football ancestry

portlock seagull · Monday at 1:25 PM

Like players called up for international duty, I think fans choice of pro team should only really be allowed on similar basis i.e.

Local team(s), when getting into football
Parent supports
Grandparent supports

How many of us have ended up following the Albion outside this criteria I wonder? I.e. just for the "Glory"? LOL!!!

(you poor sods, but fair play to you!)

Guinness Boy · Monday at 1:27 PM

Similarly to an infamous NSCer I was born in Brighton and bred in Hove. My blood is pure, baby.

Albion my Albion · Monday at 1:29 PM

portlock seagull said:
How many of us have ended up following the Albion outside this criteria I wonder? I.e. just for the "Glory"?

Hand raised. I had a roommate at Uni in St Louis in the 1980's who lived in Hove but was originally from Singapore. He was my impetus for becoming a BHAFC fan.

Brovion · Monday at 1:32 PM

I only qualify as a Brighton fan via a residence qualification. (Moved to Sussex in December 1965). Coming from the Croydon area and from a staunch Palace-supporting family I naturally supported...... Chelsea.

Flounce · Monday at 1:32 PM

I am f***ed then!

My parents had zero interest in football and I was a glory hunting long distance Spurs fan from a 9 year old. I was dragged to the Brighton vs Palace game when Alison was their manager and Peter Taylor was picked for England as a third division player. I was more interested in seeing Palace than Brighton :down:

It was the hairy Brighton vs Spurs game that made me realise that I was now a Brighton fan.

I accept that I will always be an outsider Albion fan :smile:

Is it PotG? · Monday at 1:34 PM

Born in Brighton, made in instalments.

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo · Monday at 1:35 PM

Although I was born in Rochdale, Brighton is in my DNA. My paternal grandfather, my Dad and Uncles all supported Brighton. We moved back to Brighton when I was 2 so I was never going to support anyone else. My paternal grandfather also worked for the club for many years as a steward at the Goldstone Ground and was on the supporters club committee as membership secretary in the 70s.

Eric the meek · Monday at 1:38 PM

Born in Osborne road, Fiveways and bred in Preston Park.

Dad supported Arsenal (but we don't like to talk about that).

theboybilly · Monday at 1:42 PM

I've had an interest in the Albion since 1971 when I met a young chap when starting out as apprentices for the SE Gas Board (,SEGAS) on the Old Kent Road. (Mr Virgo from Woodingdean, are you still about?) I followed my local team Charlton but with time life got in the way and I eventually stopped going to matches in the mid-1990s. Then a move down to Sussex and an urge to get back watching football. Shift patterns initially allowed me to attend just a few Albion games (with my new Albion following colleagues, and even then mostly to away games) but since 2013 I've been a STH and, now retired, a regular Away supporter too. I didn't go to Gillingham but went to the Withdean many times. Been an Albion supporter since 1999 in effect and have never once regretted it. An unusual path to BHAFC supporting but there you are. I'd always wanted to move to the area at some point and got my dream move eventually. A DFL yes, a JCL possibly but a Glory-hunter? Definitely not.
Charlton will always have a special place in my heart but it's all about my local team now.

AmexRuislip · Monday at 1:48 PM

My dad (Sussex born), a Spuds fan took me to my first live footy match at the Goldstone in1976 v Swindon.
Most of my family are Sussex born, I was the exception, being born a scaley brat somewhere in Europe, so not actually Sussex born, I was hooked on the Albion drug from then on.
I also loosely follow Hastings Town, Wealdstone & QPR.

boik · Monday at 1:48 PM

Born in Horsham. Grandad was a sponge man for Horsham for a while. Dad played a couple of games in goal for Horsham YMCA. I used to cycle to most Horsham home games. Grandad and his friend toook me to the Goldstone in 73. Went to a few games when I could scrounge a lift. Started going regularly in 77 when I got a car.

Westdene Seagull · Monday at 1:48 PM

Born and bred in Brighton ( well I was actually physically born in Southlands Hospital but left hospital the same day to my parents house in Hollingbury ) so it had to be BHA. Dad was an armchair Gillingham fan but as he was born there it seems fair.

LeicesterGull · Monday at 1:49 PM

Supported the Albion for 38 years. Lived in Guildford through childhood, now Leicestershire. My dad (zero interest in football) randomly took me to a game at the Goldstone when we were in Hove visiting elderly relatives (he was more bored than me)......I was hooked from that moment on. Kids didn't have a choice in who they supported, off to watch Brighton's women with my daughter at Highbury Friday evening.

MTSeagulls · Monday at 1:51 PM

Born in Shoreham.
The family tree on my Mother's side has Sussex roots traced back to the 1500s so far.
Father was Irish.

pasty · Monday at 1:51 PM

My dad was a Barnsley supporter being his home town but I was born after the family had moved south to Haywards Heath.

Got taken to The Goldstone as a birthday treat aged 9 and that was that.

Soton Seagull · Monday at 1:52 PM

Born in the Sussex County Hospital and straight to Hove a day or 2 later. Lived 10 mins from the Goldstone; there was only ever one club for me. Dad also an Albion fan but a bit armchair.

Younger brother an Everton fan - he's never even been to Liverpool. I paid for a season ticket for him at Withdean for a few years so he has Albion sympathies, but never fully bought in. He picked very badly.

superseagull1994 · Monday at 1:53 PM

Born in Brighton with my dad and grandad both Brighton fans. I would have no choice

chip · Monday at 1:57 PM

Born at Southlands and I think my father attended a game at the Goldstone on the same day. It was my sister who took me to my first game at the Goldstone, probably with trouble maker friends of hers.

Happy Exile · Monday at 1:59 PM

My Dad was born in Brighton and grew up here for a while before moving away.

My Mum's side are all Geordies.

My local side growing up was probably Walton & Hersham but my older brother has always supported Woking so we'd tend to go there together though we'd head up to London to see professional football too, often QPR because his best mate supported them, but Fulham, Charlton, Palace, Arsenal, Spurs and others as well.

I grew up not really supporting any team, but flirted with being a Man United supporter as most kids do, always kept a close eye on Newcastle because that was the family team, and Brighton too of course.

I moved to Brighton in the early 90s and have stayed ever since.

hans kraay fan club · Monday at 2:18 PM

Born to family in Hove at the start of the 70's, and grew up off Sackville Road, a ten minute walk from the Goldstone..

Mum was chair or vice-chair(?) of the supporter's club in the early 90s, and with Liz Costa organised the away coaches for many years.

Myself and two brothers were all ball-boys at the Goldstone, then graduated to selling programs (the big blue gate at the SW corner was my pitch).

WSU these days with one or both of my sons - Mum, sister and nephews there too in different parts of the ground.

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