Because that’s boring, the atmosphere is dead and it’s a knees up with the boys from stow. I have no interest in that and neither does 90% of the stadium. I want edge and needle and having separate home and away sections adds to that. Most people don’t want it as sanitised as Rugby. It’s all banter when you throw up on a child, except when it’s at a football game then it’s a criminal offence.
This thread does tend to suggest that football fans are, in fact, largely quite capable of not fighting each other when sharing the same stand.
2004, Guy Butters (68th minute), that was brilliant in the away end
Might have been the group of glassy-eyed teeny Norwegian football tourists who seemed to be wandering around at will. One of them sat next to me for the first five minutes of the game. We had a bit of a slurry chat before he wandered off. They'd been to the Fulham-Chelsea match a few days earlier, had seen the red card happen right in front of them. Being from the land of eye-watering expensive beer, it must have seemed like happy hour to them at the Amex. Probably lost all track of where they were actually supposed to be sittingThere were a couple of young lads who were a couple of rows down from us in the North (not even in consecutive seats, one behind the other offset). Don't know how they 'exposed' themselves (maybe not celebrating our goals) but I hadn't noticed them until after our third went in when they started getting serious shit from a couple of rows back. I think a few more mature fans stepped in, told the others to leave them alone and advised that maybe they left ?
Obviously, lairy little ****s deserve what they get but I really couldn't see what problem these kids were causing
Likewise, I was in the home end at Upton Park with a mate when we lost 6-0. It was quite clear by my lack of enthusiasm at having to stand up to applaud for the third time in the opening 10 minutes that I was a Brighton fan. Became a source of amusement to the home fans around me as the game went on. Don't act like a dick, don't wear colours and I don't see the problem.
I would suspect that it wont be away fans for those two games.
Abso-f***ing-lutely.
Obviously, it is a very generalised statement and not as simple as including everyone (or obviously, there would be no market at all for domestic rugby).
Put one up for sale. When it sells, put the other one up. Job's a good'un.
I think you have it the wrong way round. Football used to be unsatinized pre segregation and it used to kick off all the time. Segregation has removed the edge and needle and replaced it with a handful of bigmouths shouting empty threats across a bit of netting while the majority of us enjoy the game.
I'm old enough to remember pre segregation and it didn't kick off. It seemed to start in the late 60s with the skinheads adopting football teams.
I was talking about the 70s pre segregation, when I was a kid. There are though lots of examples pre 60s and 70s. The point I was making is that segregation itself sanitized and made the game a lot safer. That was the whole point of it so that mostly the problems were pushed outside of grounds. It worked.
If it bothers you that much, don't put them on sale and make sure you don't renew the tickets for next season so someone who will use the seats as a season ticket can take them.
It is ridiculous to want to gatekeep the Albion in that way - there is such a huge difference between an away fan sitting in the home end and people wanting to watch a football match (and legitimately buying a ticket). Genuinely can't see the problem with sitting next to someone who has either decided to go to their first game, or has decided that whilst on holiday that they want to watch Brighton.If it bothers you that much, don't put them on sale and make sure you don't renew the tickets for next season so someone who will use the seats as a season ticket can take them.
Failing that, stop being a grumpy old bastard and just accept that two people who may or may not support the Albion will enjoy seeing Premier league football match.
If they behave then what is the problem, you could even speak to them and find out that they are perfectly friendly normal football fans. If they turn out to be total tw@ts then I'm sure you can take pleasure in screaming for a steward to kick them out and then post on here how heroically you have behaved.
Harsh……but fairIf it bothers you that much, don't put them on sale and make sure you don't renew the tickets for next season so someone who will use the seats as a season ticket can take them.
Failing that, stop being a grumpy old bastard and just accept that two people who may or may not support the Albion will enjoy seeing Premier league football match.
If they behave then what is the problem, you could even speak to them and find out that they are perfectly friendly normal football fans. If they turn out to be total tw@ts then I'm sure you can take pleasure in screaming for a steward to kick them out and then post on here how heroically you have behaved.
Sorry, didn't explain well. The seats aren't mine, just next to me. The ST holders gave them up last season so they go on the open market each game.
Over-egging the cake a bit there shirley?
