Half a dozen ideas for a new badge were seriously considered during Withdean's dying days. There were some pretty startling suggestions, including at least one with the seagull staring straight at camera. The decision to go with the current design, classic and simple, was taken at the highest...
It really was a blue and white army, with thousands involved. Roy never wanted to be a leader in that endless battle, but he was a huge part of it and if it wasn't for people like him it would all have come to nothing. Let's think of him (and Ed, and Sarah, and Paul Welch, and surely others)...
I'm really sorry but I'm afraid I regularly use Winfield/Carden/Braybon avenues as a rat run into town at busy times, sometimes using Mayfield Crescent on the way home (when the traffic at the bottom of Braybon is heavy).
It's a bit of a shame that politics threads need to be exiled from the main board since politics has at least as much to do with the Albion as, say, music. Perhaps I am in a minority but there was much that was good about the Brexit thread - it contained many carefully researched and considered...
I'm sure your leave-voting relations are pretty representative - most of the Brexiteers I know lost interest about four years ago. They made their gesture.
A well-crafted reply and I've no wish to lock horns with you, but be honest - you introduced Brexit in order to make a partisan point. Nothing wrong with that but if you 'learnt from being on NSC' that Brexiteers sometimes get abuse then you would certainly have 'learnt at the same time' that...
So, just to clarify.
In arguing against name-calling and random insulting language you weren't criticising a Brexit-supporter for misreading a post and calling a Remainer a lying bullshitter, but you were criticising a Remain supporter for apparently calling a Brexiter an old right winger...
Sadly, NSC helped me lose my naivety about fellow fans.
Almost 25 years ago we were driving to a last game of the season, at Walsall. On that Vicar of Dibley bit on the M40, where the road emerges from the Chiltern Hills, we saw a car with Albion scarfs broken down on the hard shoulder. We...
No one was suggesting that the Queen has anything to do with the head of the EU. The graphic simply compared the accountability of different aspects of the Inited Kingdom and the European Union, in the same way that others might compare the virtues of, say, Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal...
So just to confirm, your main argument in favour of Boris Johnson being in nominal charge of the British state is that he is preferable to a 'piece of filth' who never stood the remotest chance of leading the country anyway? In fairness to you I can't think of a decent case for the serial...
My mind goes back to the later days of another season. 96/97. Bournemouth supporters in fair numbers at Fans United, getting behind another south coast club in even deeper trouble than they were. I wish them well; sparky outsiders who shook up the established order and who didn't half give it a...