[Albion] Behave at West Ham…

[jackalbion]

Its probably because the people are not Brighton fans they are just Brighton employees. Pretty much all of the away ticketing issues for example could be sorted out if a regular away fan was in charge rather than people who are just in charge of selling tickets. For example, last week when Norwich opened for all STH's and there were a few hundred left, I think everybody on here or a away traveller would have said "let open those in the middle of that block for sale in the 20 minute blackout so there is the full choice at 9am" instead of at 920 "oh look there are hardly any seats left and fans are now buying the shitty off the pitch restricted view seats as there are none left anywhere expect for the 300 odd seats in the middle we haven't released yet, better press the button then.

Or possibly that we could have taken more but now we have a smaller allocation.

 

[Official Old Man]

If the away fans are stacked up on high steep terracing of course there will be a few who fall forwards when we score. The answer would be everyone sit down, but when we score the terrace erupts in celebration, sat down or not, we all stand and jump around.
As for blocking the aisles, this is a safety issue. But getting a steward to move someone on should be easy enough.

 

[Mellotron]

What is it about Fulham that attracts our prime twats?

I would say London aways in general always seemed to bring out a few NAWTY TYPES.

 

[jackalbion]

I would say London aways in general always seemed to bring out a few NAWTY TYPES.

And Wolves for some reason as well.

 

[virgs]

Whatever, you can just ignore the fact that we're being spoken to like children and are going to be under even more surveillance from the club.

And also make fun of people who use the word 'ain't' (to be fair, this whole board seems to be obsessed with 'chavs', never ever hear that word anymore yet see it on here daily).

Standing in aisles, surging when your team scores happens in every away end across the country. 'Limbs' are celebrated online and is a big part of away fan culture.

Of course it's not nice to have beer spilt on you, but I've had drinks spilt on me at gigs, at pubs, at the cricket. It just happens at places where people drink a lot of alcohol. I don't think chucking a pint in the air is a particularly nice thing to do, but I also don't think it needs an email from the club, it's the sort of thing that should be self policed, or even just a word from a steward in the ground. I don't have kids, if I did I wouldn't take them to an away match until they were old enough to not be upset by these kinds of things.

Your arsey reply is obviously very funny to a certain type of poster on here, but I find the sanitisation of modern football insanely depressing and think it's a bi

How can a supporter have a pint in the stands is what I want to know?

Drinking beer in the terraces has been illegal since 1985 - an arrestable offence
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As it’s panto season oh no it isn’t. I got drenched in someone else’s foul cooking lager when we scored at Fulham, seemingly also served up with a delightful side-serving of chav saliva, and yes, I was in my correct seat. My nice winter coat still smells of it.

I mean I know a big day in London is terribly exciting for some people but it’s just f***ing infantile really. And too easy just to blame it all on youngsters.

I got drenched as well . Beer on terraces against the law -an arrestable offence since 1985 . The club are right to mention it

 

[Brian Munich]

Is surging in this context when people run down the aisles towards the front of the stand?? The only time I’ve ever ‘surged’ to the row in front of me in a seated stand was at QPR when Poco’s free kick went it. It was unintentional and it bloody hurt my shins; you wouldn’t have to tell me not to do it on purpose.

I don’t think that the email is all that bad. To summarise it’s just telling us not to act like dicks. I’ve been to enough aways to know that dickish behaviour definitely happens when we take a big following. Remember that video someone posted here of that bloke in Marseille?

 

[Mellotron]

I'm somewhere down the middle on this one - I think the club have got the messaging badly wrong and the direction of travel is definitely a bit concerning, but twats being twats is also annoying. I'm not personally offended by the email because it's not aimed at me, but frankly of the 5% of the fanbase it's aimed at, only a tiny percentage will actually read it.

 

[Mellotron]

When I was 20 something I acted like a total bell end at away games, I had an incredible time.

It's an away game, so I won't take my kids. When they are old enough to mix it, they can go.

Do you think it would've been impossible to have had an incredible time WITHOUT acting like a total bell end? Genuine question.
And this idea that children should only be able to go to games once they can "mix it" seems mildly insane to me.

 

[Driver8]

Is that Benny from Crossroads?

I’m more concerned about what appears to be Davros from Dr Who.

 

[Deadly Danson]

So this was Fulham (not my picture). If one person under that lot has complained or was injured the club HAVE to be seen to be doing something.
Let's be honest - the people who insist on standing in the aisles, not sitting in their allocated seats, luzzing beer and deliberately shoving rather than just surging are absolute dicks and annoy everyone else at away games. Let's also be honest - they are often the ones making the most noise and starting the most chants so it's tricky to strike the right balance I guess. Just don't be a nob.

 

[BN9 BHA]

So they buy a pint and then throw it away? That alone deserves a ban.

Got to be a special type of div to do that

 

[essbee1]

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So this was Fulham (not my picture). If one person under that lot has complained or was injured the club HAVE to be seen to be doing something.
Let's be honest - the people who insist on standing in the aisles, not sitting in their allocated seats, luzzing beer and deliberately shoving rather than just surging are absolute dicks and annoy everyone else at away games. Let's also be honest - they are often the ones making the most noise and starting the most chants so it's tricky to strike the right balance I guess. Just don't be a nob.

Are you sure that the people in the picture aren't just shaped like that; i.e., it's their normal posture?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I have this in my home office

Question, is this a surge or not?

BTW my favourite is the guy in the red hat who couldn’t be happier for Solly

 

[drew]

Don't you just love it, probably the same people who were moaning that we should have safe standing are now moaning the club are concerned about fans congregating in the aisles and surging forward when goals are scored. Very noticeable at Fulham where the stewards were useless.

 

[The Fifth Column]

Here's a thought, maybe get the bone idle stewards to do their poxy jobs and clear the aisles and ensure they are clear maybe an announcement to that effect pre match that they will be ensuring the aisles are clear and anyone preventing this will be hoicked out and/or have privileges revoked. Always seem to be plenty of them lounging around doing stuff all, just a thought.

 

[jordanseagull]

Here's a thought, maybe get the bone idle stewards to do their poxy jobs and clear the aisles and ensure they are clear maybe an announcement to that effect pre match that they will be ensuring the aisles are clear and anyone preventing this will be hoicked out and/or have privileges revoked. Always seem to be plenty of them lounging around doing stuff all, just a thought.

Getting 21 year old oiks (as many steward are) to police this sort of thing is unreasonable. I wouldn't intervene in drunk, coked up or aggressive (or a mixture of all 3) football fans in aisles for £10/hr whatever my age. It would need proper security presence - people intimidating enough to actually be able to implement the rules.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm not planning on going round punching people, yet the government feel it NECESSARY to have a LAW saying I can't do it and that I'll be punished. It's SO condescending. Maybe if the police did their jobs and stopped people punching each other then we wouldn't need these 'laws'.

Again,.I'm not one of the guys who likes doing the punching. I just find it patronising that they feel the need to tell us but then allow things like boxing on TV.

 

[Giraffe]

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So this was Fulham (not my picture). If one person under that lot has complained or was injured the club HAVE to be seen to be doing something.
Let's be honest - the people who insist on standing in the aisles, not sitting in their allocated seats, luzzing beer and deliberately shoving rather than just surging are absolute dicks and annoy everyone else at away games. Let's also be honest - they are often the ones making the most noise and starting the most chants so it's tricky to strike the right balance I guess. Just don't be a nob.

You are right, that is ridiculous. But this picture was shown all over social media as what a great celebration, wow those Brighton lads limbs etc. All this for an equaliser in a game that we went on to lose. I wouldn't be happy if my daughter was under that lot for sure. Something similar happened to me and my son at Leeds when Bobby Zamora scored that late winner. At least it was a winner! And fortunately my son was saved by falling on Big Philly. Suspect that saved him from injury.

 

[PeterT]

I have this in my home office

Question, is this a surge or not?

BTW my favourite is the guy in the red hat who couldn’t be happier for Solly

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Is that Danny Dyer under Solly’s right armpit, next to the red hat guy?

 

[Mellotron]

And fortunately my son was saved by falling on Big Philly.

Could Big Philly be set up as some kind of Hodor-esque buffer zone?

i.e. if you want to do LIMBS, BP will be in this area and will act as your landing zone.

Should probably check this with Big Philly.