I live in Walthamstow (once of Dalston) and have a band of local Albion mates, but don't drink and occasionally rally the troops at the Coppermill pub at the end of my road - averaging once every 20 months for over a decade.
Just spent £6000 on our summer holiday and if I take my kids to the game we won't be home till 1 in the morning, so a crap atmosphere won't be a justifiable treat for my kids.
As sad as it is, it's lucky the yacht wasn't full of refugees, they'd have given up the rescue mission by now and it would have long since stopped being newsworthy.
Did you feel like it was no longer your team when Lloyd brought in a whole new squad - Nelson, Bremner, Rougvie, Dublin, Isaac's etc. Or Mickey Adams squad overhaul, or when Bruno, Bridge etc? I always find this kind of thing unbelievably exciting and my obsession will soon have me rattling off...
https://www.claretandhugh.info/west-ham-face-competition-for-cresswell-replacement/
West Ham? I usually point out to my West Ham mate that every player they sign, they claim to have beaten Brighton to them. Kudos aside I have never seen us linked with any of their signings for quite some time...