Build a Bonfire: How Football Fans United to Save Brighton and Hove Albion

[Lankyseagull]

You're not a true fan until you have read it , twice.

Surely you're not a true fan if you can't say "I was there" while you are reading it?!

 

[Frutos]

Surely you're not a true fan if you can't say "I was there" while you are reading it?!

Not sure if you mean that seriously or not, but I definitely think you can.

I definitely consider myself a true fan, but I was:

a) still at school
b) living in Oxford

when all that was going on, hence I missed it all. Can't really see how that makes me any less of a fan here and now.

 

[Icy Gull]

Surely you're not a true fan if you can't say "I was there" while you are reading it?!

I lived it, and read the book when it came out but I'm not sure I want to read it again for a while yet...mostly f***ing depressing, thank God for those at the sharp end.

 

[Jamie]

"Dad.. what did you do during The Albion Troubles ?"

"Read the book son, but those were dark times, and its time we all moved on and we leave it to history. We fought, we won, job done."

 

[xenophon]

You're not a fan unless you read it at a Goldstone home game against Crystal Palace when we played in all blue

Anyway, you can get it a bit cheaper on amazon than eBay - and it might still be in one piece, unlike eBay

it's up for £34.30

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Bonfi...0250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250106054&sr=8-1

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

"Dad.. what did you do during The Albion Troubles ?"

"Listened to a lot of Atila's poems , son."

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

available to rent from any Library (you might have to wait)

 

[blue'n'white]

i got it the day it came out - it's a superb read but it brings a tear to the eye remembering those days. Must have dipped into it thousands of times just to read a page or two

 

[The Large One]

"Dad.. what did you do during The Albion Troubles ?"

"Read the book son, but those were dark times, and its time we all moved on and we leave it to history. We fought, we won, job done."

"Yep, consign it to history. It's never going to happen to anyone else, so there's nothing to be learned from this."

 

[The Large One]

i got it the day it came out - it's a superb read but it brings a tear to the eye remembering those days. Must have dipped into it thousands of times just to read a page or two

Especially the Hereford pages.

And I genuinely didn't know Bellotti was there until the book came out.

 

[Braders]

I'm waiting for the second edition with the Falmer update.

Assuming it's still going ahead that is!

second edition ?!!!?!?! I STILL maintain there is a whole second BOOK to cover '97- day we move in , a bloody big book at that !!! , not sure as talked about a couple of extra chapters is going to cover it!

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Has anyway read this book and more to the point is it worth purchasing??

It is the BEST football book EVER written. FACT.



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[eastlondonseagull]

Sadly, the poor writers who put in all the work get no financial reward from all the big-money sales on Amazon and eBay etc. And that, I think, is a bloody shame. Steve and Paul, we should have a whip round

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[Deportivo Seagull]

Pulls up a chair. Could be a long night.

Christianity has the the Bible
Islam has the Koran
Judiashm has the Torah
We have Build a Bonfire

and palarse has caravan weekly

 

[Danny-Boy]

It's a dull read. Get 'The Crystal Palace Soccer Annual 1996/97' instead.

I think Albion fans might prefer to read the 1997/98 edition....

 

[Wozza]

Sadly, the poor writers who put in all the work get no financial reward from all the big-money sales on Amazon and eBay etc. And that, I think, is a bloody shame. Steve and Paul, we should have a whip round

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What about the little woman (probably) who did all the transcribing?!

 

[rcf0712]

Surely you're not a true fan if you can't say "I was there" while you are reading it?!

bollocks, just because I don't live in England anymore does not stop me being a true fan of The Albion. No, I wasn't there when all that shit went down but watched it from afar in quiet despair. I did manage to visit the Goldstone demolition site on a brief visit back to blighty but that's as far as I got. There are many different ways to be a true fan, the main test IMHO is that you picked a team when you were a nipper (for whatever reason) and then stuck with them through thick and (in The Albion's case the thinest of) thin. I have done this, ergo I am Albion.
Sorry if I'm ranting but I take offence at being labeled plastic by someone who doesn't know me or my circumstances (as cool as his rude boy avatar may be).

Oh yeah, as for the book, hunt it down and pay whatever you have to, it's something to be kept forever, unputdownable. I found mine on ebay after a long long search not having been able to get it mailed out when it was released - they are rare as hens teeth, basically because most people who buy are unlikely to ever part with it.

 

[maffew]

available to rent from any Library (you might have to wait)

I was gonna ask that, thanks

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I've never read it.

 

[Icy Gull]

How many were printed?

There's one for sale on Amazon for £37.00 incl postage