Gerd Dembowski, who persuaded loads of his German mates to join us at both Fans United games and organised the trips, is joining us for the game today. How fitting! Wilkommen Gerd :)
As is my custom for the past 37 years as often as possible, I had a gig after the game at the wonderful Barrels (home of the Wye Valley Brewery), booked/organised 3 months before by Chris from Talking Bull, HUFC's fanzine, when they were mid table and we were well adrift. Brimming over with...
Did a fundraiser for them in Walthamstow after the Blackburn game. Fans just like us, angry beyond belief that some scheister could destroy their club while the FA stood there and did nothing. Nothing but goodwill for BHAFC. £1500 raised for their regeneration fund. Yes, Buono their PA guy and a...
Totally dedicated to the Albion and an ever present in the struggle. So happy, as we all are, with the resurgence and the bright new future and I am so sad that he won't be there to celebrate with us in May.
I too remember Scott McGleish, but that's not the point :) What is happening to Orient is disgusting and they deserve the same solidarity we were shown by so many in the darkest of times. I'm doing a fundraising gig for Save The Orient after the Blackburn game in Walthamstow with a great bunch...
While Barber's approach may have been justifiable in the pre-Sky days, it is totally unacceptable when games can be moved at a few weeks' notice. We all have lives to lead. Some season ticket holders have to work Friday/Saturday evenings. (As next Sat when, having planned the weekend's gigs...
In this day and age when games are moved at the whim of the corporate TV monster without a moment's thought for the fans and we are supposed to put up with it with a good grace such an announcement is petty, heavy handed, insensitive and stupid.
Modern football bollocks at its worst.
Cheers for that. It could have bumped into Bellotti in its previous incarnation (ie the message on the other side of the banner) as the 'FA Get Off Your Knees - Brighton's had Enough' banner featured at Fans United, which is when I got it printed by a local signage company here in Southwick. :)...
Last night's event at the Theatre Royal was brilliant, and would have been precisely the right time to bring out the big RIP Goldstone banner painted for April 26, 1997 (featured in my avatar and in many media pics on the day) and afterwards stored in our attic after the game in hope and...
Funny thing is, Rolf is a St Pauli fan, came over with their lot (there were 14 of them altogether if I remember rightly, all pissed, all sleeping on my floor) :) An Eintracht mate of his gave him the flag in a show of solidarity. His English wasn't that good so he didn't try and explain, he...
Great piece. Well done EVERYONE.
Gonna raise a glass to the memory of my old mate Roy tonight.
I always knew we'd get there in the end :)
'The battle's only just begun, but we have won the war.
Our club, though torn asunder, will survive.
And I salute each one of you who stood up and said NO...
MY NINTH BIRTHDAY
I’m sure it won’t surprise you to learn
I was a proper little show-off.
‘Too clever by half’
said my Victorian grandmother
who lived in the flat downstairs.
‘You spoil him, Muriel.
Children should be seen
and not heard.
Be quiet, John!
When you begin to pay a little
Then you...