Brighton and Palace. Hard to explain...

[Pretty pink fairy]

I remember reading about a group of Charlton fans who met up with a group of Southampton fans and put one of them in hospital. They went to visit him to make sure he was ok. Well, he would have been better if you hadn't broken three of his ribs and stamped on his head but it's the thought that counts!

at a railway station
regards
DR

 

[Wrong-Direction]

at a railway station
regards
DR

Where did you used to meet daz?

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

a lot of soft touches on this thread
regards
DR

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

where did you used to meet daz?

wind your neck in trunky
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DR

 

[Wrong-Direction]

wind your neck in trunky
regards
DR

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[el punal]

Surprisingly well although it has to be said, the BHA mug is of far superior quality to the Palace one which is thin and stains easily.

A bit like when their coach driver did a "whoopsie" on the dressing room floor.

 

[Brightonia]

Assume then that you are too young to have attended the Fa cup final and replay ?[/QUOT

Unfortunately so!

 

[El Presidente]

Never understand why some Albion fans hate teams like United, haven't played each other for donkeys years Not really any rivalry of the sort? Makes no sense to me! Have no problems with United, Arsenal, Chelsea etc.....

1: 1983, Wembley, replay
2: It's the plastic element I despise. Proper old school Reds are fine. I used to subscribe to Red Issue, a United fanzine, just for the quality of the writing. Sadly it stopped production earlier this year because the authors had had enough of the corporate bullshit of the Premier League.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

1: 1983, Wembley, replay
2: It's the plastic element I despise. Proper old school Reds are fine. I used to subscribe to Red Issue, a United fanzine, just for the quality of the writing. Sadly it stopped production earlier this year because the authors had had enough of the corporate bullshit of the Premier League.

This all the way.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Not sure its that co,plicated. Just needs the time to chat over a pint to an interested person.

 

[Hiney]

I live in a mixed household. We all just try to get along.

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[Se20]

As others have said, we are both similar sized clubs and fanbases.
We have had the upper hand for quite a few years now, but that's the beauty of a rivalry, you give it when you're on top ( ooh arr mrs ) and take it when roles are reversed.
The Brighton fans I've met socially have been good company, and I could relate to them more than some armchair expert.
Long live the rivalry, and may we be giving it for a few years yet

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

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Awesome lol!

 

[Wrong-Direction]

As others have said, we are both similar sized clubs and fanbases.
We have had the upper hand for quite a few years now, but that's the beauty of a rivalry, you give it when you're on top ( ooh arr mrs ) and take it when roles are reversed.
The Brighton fans I've met socially have been good company, and I could relate to them more than some armchair expert.
Long live the rivalry, and may we be giving it for a few years yet [emoji106]

I agree!

 

[Stat Brother]

I live in a mixed household. We all just try to get along.

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Id have to raise 'my' hook by a few millimetres.

 

[Diego Napier]

It's a respect thing.

Like holding eye contact and urinating to assert dominance.

Wow! I usually just look 'em in the eye.

Do you unzip yourself or just go for it?

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

at a railway station
regards
DR

The battle of Westcombe Park, as I believe it became known.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Assume then that you are too young to have attended the Fa cup final and replay ?

It goes a long way further back than that for me - probably when I first got into following football and the Albion and realised that there were people who claimed to 'support' some distant team rather than us for the simple reason that they were successful when Albion needed their support far more. And of course Manchester United, because of Munich, Best & Charlton and the European Cup win of 1968, were the beneficiaries, far more than any of the London clubs.

I have degrees of Manchester United-related loathing.

1. So-called fans who have only ever seen the Red Filth on TV.
2. Anyone who calls them 'Man United'. They do NOT represent all humanity. "Man U" is almost as bad.
3. Fans living outside Greater Manchester and who have no family allegiance who go to watch them. Support your local team.
4. Any player with another club who ever uses the word 'dream' when talking about the prospect of joining the Red Filth. My only dream about playing for them is the one where I deliberately score an own goal at the Stretford End that costs them the league title.
5. Most of their players. Sometimes you just have to look at some self-obsessed idiot footballer with a ridiculous sense of entitlement and know that he's born to play for them.
6. All those referees who never gave stonewall penalties to visiting teams at Old Trafford but couldn't wait to point to the spot as soon as Rooney threw himself over the nearest outstretched leg (even his own).

But I suppose they have given me some joy over the years. For example, the ages it took them finally to win the title, the looks on the faces of their fans at Sunderland (and Phil Jones) when Man City scored against QPR to deny them another undeserved title win the other year, their recent uselessness. But I can't imagine a time when I won't loathe them.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

It goes a long way further back than that for me - probably when I first got into following football and the Albion and realised that there were people who claimed to 'support' some distant team rather than us for the simple reason that they were successful when Albion needed their support far more. And of course Manchester United, because of Munich, Best & Charlton and the European Cup win of 1968, were the beneficiaries, far more than any of the London clubs.

I have degrees of Manchester United-related loathing.

1. So-called fans who have only ever seen the Red Filth on TV.
2. Anyone who calls them 'Man United'. They do NOT represent all humanity. "Man U" is almost as bad.
3. Fans living outside Greater Manchester and who have no family allegiance who go to watch them. Support your local team.
4. Any player with another club who ever uses the word 'dream' when talking about the prospect of joining the Red Filth. My only dream about playing for them is the one where I deliberately score an own goal at the Stretford End that costs them the league title.
5. Most of their players. Sometimes you just have to look at some self-obsessed idiot footballer with a ridiculous sense of entitlement and know that he's born to play for them.
6. All those referees who never gave stonewall penalties to visiting teams at Old Trafford but couldn't wait to point to the spot as soon as Rooney threw himself over the nearest outstretched leg (even his own).

But I suppose they have given me some joy over the years. For example, the ages it took them finally to win the title, the looks on the faces of their fans at Sunderland (and Phil Jones) when Man City scored against QPR to deny them another undeserved title win the other year, their recent uselessness. But I can't imagine a time when I won't loathe them.

 

[lawros left foot]

It goes a long way further back than that for me - probably when I first got into following football and the Albion and realised that there were people who claimed to 'support' some distant team rather than us for the simple reason that they were successful when Albion needed their support far more. And of course Manchester United, because of Munich, Best & Charlton and the European Cup win of 1968, were the beneficiaries, far more than any of the London clubs.

I have degrees of Manchester United-related loathing.

1. So-called fans who have only ever seen the Red Filth on TV.
2. Anyone who calls them 'Man United'. They do NOT represent all humanity. "Man U" is almost as bad.
3. Fans living outside Greater Manchester and who have no family allegiance who go to watch them. Support your local team.
4. Any player with another club who ever uses the word 'dream' when talking about the prospect of joining the Red Filth. My only dream about playing for them is the one where I deliberately score an own goal at the Stretford End that costs them the league title.
5. Most of their players. Sometimes you just have to look at some self-obsessed idiot footballer with a ridiculous sense of entitlement and know that he's born to play for them.
6. All those referees who never gave stonewall penalties to visiting teams at Old Trafford but couldn't wait to point to the spot as soon as Rooney threw himself over the nearest outstretched leg (even his own).

But I suppose they have given me some joy over the years. For example, the ages it took them finally to win the title, the looks on the faces of their fans at Sunderland (and Phil Jones) when Man City scored against QPR to deny them another undeserved title win the other year, their recent uselessness. But I can't imagine a time when I won't loathe them.

Couldn't agree more, except that team of Tevez, Rooney, and Ronaldo, jeez, their football that season made it very hard to still detest them