A bloke I work with went to the Millwall V Charlton match on Saturday, 0 - 0 and he said it was THE worst match he has ever been to. He also said that there was virtually no atmosphere, with the Charlton fans only piping up a bit, and at one point they sang "It's so quiet at the Den". He said...
Get a grip mate; we all know that Southern can't cope very well at night games with their rolling stock all over the place due to work commuters. But if I go to any stadium with 25,000 plus crowds I don't expect to get away instantly...
I think that is a fair assessment, and I think that the violence and inflated level of hostility directed at Palace fans was very much generated by the Cantona incident, no matter how many Brighton fans on here tell them they are wrong. I reckon they have every right to be pissed off about...
Yes I remember this; probably 1978, but there were more than 3 of them as I recall..I reckon about about 8 -10. I was down the front of the Whitehorse end and looking back up. As the skinheads came in the Brighton mob sussed them as Palace straight away (as I don't remember a lot of skins at...
A mainstay of the football casual wardrobe were Lyle & Scott, Pringle and even Gabbici sweaters AND cardigans. I do not know what boy racer casuals wore, but I assure you that expensive golf knitware, preferably in baby pinks, light blue and yellow, was where it was at with these geezers. FACT.
I'm guessing that you were not a teenager/young adult during the late 70s to late 80s when this casual style was popular with a strata of young men in Britain. But it was only a strata. I assure you it was nothing like as exciting as you seem to imagine it was, and most of their contemporaries...
Let's not be short sighted; the point of the i360 is to be a new tourist attraction for Brighton in the 21st century. A thriving tourist industry in Brighton will improve the local economy and help regenerate the seafront. And a thriving Brighton is more likely to get better local amenities...