West Ham fans really do fit into a couple of general stereotypes, the most prevalent being the overweight, shaved headed, Essex cheap gold jewellery lover.
I'm afraid that analogy doesn't stand-up; a non-native person identifying as Irish has probably got Irish parents and therefore a totally authentic connection to the country.
Completely fair enough. Brighton has had a large inward migration of people during the last 20 years and I'm only too happy if many of them get into the local club. And even better if they encourage their kids to follow the Albion.
During the wilderness years much of the fanbase became disillusioned with The Albion and stopped going, Let's face it, The Goldstone was a decrepit dump, the board were crooks, the football was awful, then Gilingham was a 150 mile round trip. Withdean stabilised the core of our support at...
Brighton - London line is as busy as pre-Covid. Thameslink trains are often standing room only (though admittedly this can sometimes be due to short formations and cancellations)
No need to feel dirty, if we had been clued-up enough to sign him he would have given Albion 100%. He's an intelligent, likeable man who certainly wasn't handed success on a plate.
Flippin'eck there are a lot of miserable old gits on here... perhaps if more of you stopped sucking on your Werthers and joined in with chants and songs and stopped moaning about smoke bombs then the club wouldn't feel the need to use pyrotechnics.
But anyway, I thought they looked great...
I detect someone who obviously voted Leave and doesn't like being reminded that he was duped. Brexit is entirely relevant to the discussion about our rubbish train service to Falmer as our rail companies are owned by EU based operators and running any more than a bare minimum service is not...
There was some idiot in WSU who loudly kept calling him "Tommy Takimoto" and looking pleased with himself for being hilarious. At the time I couldn't decide if it was racist or just stupid, but thinking about it, taking the p1ss out of a foreigners name has got to be racist...
But let's be honest the actual attendance was at least 10% below that due to the stupid hassle of sharing season tickets when so many people are on holiday...
Errr... I don't think I implied that the rail privatisation happened as a result of Brexit. But one thing is for sure, post Brexit the European train operators who run our railways are not thinking sympathetically about Britain (understandably) but see us as an easy to exploit cash-cow. Thank...