Totally agree. We had to get a police escort for our own safety back to our hotel. Horrible place, horrible people
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Totally agree. We had to get a police escort for our own safety back to our hotel. Horrible place, horrible people
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
And if they could have stayed up they wouldn't have given a monkeys for us if we had gone bust by going down
1234andcounting
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- Mar 31, 2008
- 1,609
Yes, it wasn't pretty after the game but, given the context, understandable if not justifiable. I have experienced far worse after insignificant (at least at the time) matches in places like Cardiff and Leeds. And as for all the sanctimony about it on the thread, I wonder if roles had been reversed and Hereford had drawn 1-1 at the Goldstone to put us out of the League if a fair number of Brighton fans wouldn't have gone looking to vent their inarticulate fury too.
mona
The Glory Game
So every Hereford fan is of one mind ("they could/ they wouldn't") and every fan of the Albion thinks the same as you. Oh well......
mona
The Glory Game
and yes I was there and also there for the cup game the next season.
Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
No sympathy for any set of fans who let their club with barely a whimper of protest.
We wouldn't have a club if we hadn't fought tooth and nail to keep our club afloat. What did they do? A few online petitions and the odd protest outside the ground? Last season Blackpool proved that big acts still attract the attention of the media (especially on Twitter etc) so I really struggle to feel sorry for a set of fans who do f*ck all to save their club. If you care that little then you don't deserve a club to support.
We wouldn't have a club if we hadn't fought tooth and nail to keep our club afloat. What did they do? A few online petitions and the odd protest outside the ground? Last season Blackpool proved that big acts still attract the attention of the media (especially on Twitter etc) so I really struggle to feel sorry for a set of fans who do f*ck all to save their club. If you care that little then you don't deserve a club to support.
mona
The Glory Game
No sympathy for any set of fans who let their club with barely a whimper of protest.
We wouldn't have a club if we hadn't fought tooth and nail to keep our club afloat. What did they do? A few online petitions and the odd protest outside the ground? Last season Blackpool proved that big acts still attract the attention of the media (especially on Twitter etc) so I really struggle to feel sorry for a set of fans who do f*ck all to save their club. If you care that little then you don't deserve a club to support.
But Brighton and Blackpool are much bigger clubs than the likes of Darlington, Scarborough and Hereford.
Our fans felt pretty isolated when the Archer/Stanley/Bellotti masterplan came to light in 1995.
Soul Finger
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- May 12, 2004
- 2,297
OK.
I was there, and at the cup game the following season, and a season-ticket holder for the subsequent two years at Gillingham.
Perhaps, I can differentiate between the actions of a few idiots and the future of a whole community's football club being saved.
We have our own percentage of knobhead fans and I'd be disappointed if people tarnished our good name due to their stupidity.
But, by all means, cast aspersions of my character due to a sweeping-statement mentality.
Your comment is one of the many reasons I despair of modern football, and society in general, these days.
BensGrandad
New member
Our minibus full of supporters must have been lucky as we didnt experience any problems at all. We didnt hang about in Hereford after the final whistle to gloat just upped and drove 20 miles to a pub.
I have had no bad experience with them home or away and put their vote to expel us down to their own self survival, which I am sure we would have done the same if the roles were reversed. A good experience their was Peter Wards debut and the walking of the Hereford Bull around the pitch to chants of "Dixie McNeil".
I have had no bad experience with them home or away and put their vote to expel us down to their own self survival, which I am sure we would have done the same if the roles were reversed. A good experience their was Peter Wards debut and the walking of the Hereford Bull around the pitch to chants of "Dixie McNeil".
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You very conveniently didn't answer my question wrt experiencing violence that day though, did you?
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Quite a bit of trouble that day, much of it indiscriminate, I can understand why folk don't like Hereford. A natural reaction.
For myself I only live 20 miles from the place, I know a couple of Hereford supporters and they aren't all that keen on us either. I've never had any subsequent bother wearing Albion branded gear around there though in fairness.
For myself I only live 20 miles from the place, I know a couple of Hereford supporters and they aren't all that keen on us either. I've never had any subsequent bother wearing Albion branded gear around there though in fairness.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Absolutely this. And just because a few hundred of their fans behaved like absolute morons, it doesn't mean that the football club as a whole is bad
As you say, l wonder what would have happened if the roles had been reversed and Hereford had won the game? Our own survival was at stake that day, and a section of our own fans aren't complete Angels either.
There but for the grace of God.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Rather like you, l hav e had no negative vibes in my visits to Hereford either We also left on the final whistle of that game in 1997 and drove to a pub well outside the town.
In fact l have really enjoyed my visits to what is becoming quite a rarity in League football nowadays Football being played in an old fashioned traditional ground, in a small country town,
Oh, and the bull being led around the ground before kick-off emptying it's bowels must be pretty unique too.
Staly
Well-known member
No sympathy for any set of fans who let their club with barely a whimper of protest.
We wouldn't have a club if we hadn't fought tooth and nail to keep our club afloat. What did they do? A few online petitions and the odd protest outside the ground? Last season Blackpool proved that big acts still attract the attention of the media (especially on Twitter etc) so I really struggle to feel sorry for a set of fans who do f*ck all to save their club. If you care that little then you don't deserve a club to support.
They organised a long running and effective boycott of the club which went a long way towards forcing the owners out.
I'm a Shrewsbury supporter, so don't have much truck with Hereford, but honestly this holier than thou stuff from some Brighton fans can get very tiresome.
Paskman
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Good grief, you cannot judge a club by a few morons - every club has them inc ours. I can just see the scene had the match been played in Brighton and the result gone the other way. I feel sure that all of the Brighton fans would have patted the Hereford fans on their backs and said "Well done chaps" as they set about getting pissed, celebrating and gloating in one of the Brighton pubs. I also suspect that said Brighton fans would not have bothered differentiating between the old and young Hereford fans......
By the way my cousin is a lifelong Hereford fan, an ex policeman, and was instrumental in arranging the bull as well as other fund raising schemes for the club over the years - people here forget how small a club Hereford was/is: It was even harder for them to fight the bad guys, they just didn't have the numbers, nor expertise/celebrities etc they we do.
Good luck to them, I hope it wont be long before we are playing them in the Cup again.
By the way my cousin is a lifelong Hereford fan, an ex policeman, and was instrumental in arranging the bull as well as other fund raising schemes for the club over the years - people here forget how small a club Hereford was/is: It was even harder for them to fight the bad guys, they just didn't have the numbers, nor expertise/celebrities etc they we do.
Good luck to them, I hope it wont be long before we are playing them in the Cup again.
Bob!
Coffee Buyer
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,644
same thing surely?
I must say that I didn't feel much sympathy for them as the ex-Mrs Gwylan was from Hereford and supported them. However, that's all in the past now. I no longer have a missus who's the follower of a despised football club (Mrs Gwylan is a Millwall supporter) and I have a lot of admiration for the way Hereford have got their act together. Hope they climb up the league ladder again