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Come on, haven't you seen our cheerleaders?!
No,but I saw Henry Houghton...leg breaker play
Come on, haven't you seen our cheerleaders?!
No,but I saw Henry Houghton...leg breaker play
Disagree. I've had a season ticket at Grimsby for 21 of my 27 years on this planet, and have watched us play in each of this country's top five divisions with the unfortunate exception of the top flight. Off the top of my head, I know that you were unlucky not to win the FA Cup in 1983, that you got shat on by your former owners over the Goldstone, that Withdean was a bit of a dump but somehow charming in its own way (I've been there twice), that Bobby Zamora's a bit of a legend and that Michel Kuipers played in goal for you for a long time.
I know that former Grimsby manager Russell Slade saved you from relegation but got the sack shortly after, that Wayne Henderson once got lobbed from the half-way line (while on loan from Aston Villa?), that you're quite fond of Charlie Oatway, and that you got relegated at Blundell Park in 2003 after our on-loan midfielder Michael Keane scored and celebrated like a prick in front of the away end.
There might be a couple of inaccuracies in there, but my point is that my general knowledge of the game is not all that bad and yet I wasn't particularly aware of your rivalry with Palace. Maybe it's a Northern thing.
Sitting in the Arthur Wait Stand with a handful of other Albion fans, wearing the blue and white stripes, in the midst of a couple of thousand Norwich City supporters, to promote the second REMF game back in 2002, and experiencing the whole of the Holmesdale end hurling their colourful abuse at just us, it seemed to those of us who were there that Palace take the rivalry as seriously as we do. The Norwich fans, on the other hand, were just baffled by it.
Even better was the pre-match drinking with the Seagulleater and his chums in the Woolpack (their pub of choice at the time). I think there were seven of us in there, doing nothing more hostile than playing Cluedo, but the police found out - and sent a whole minibus full of the Met's finest to keep a watch on us.
I'm really not sure they do. I think that it's a rivalry that we manufactured over an episode that took place 30 years ago that they had no doubt long forgotten about, or weren't even aware of in the first place. When I first watched Brighton, we weren't rivals in any way. Portsmouth was always the big south coast derby for us. The rivalry with Palace just seems a tenuous and desperate to me, but I guess I'm on my own.
Cheers. Was honestly a bit unexpected and embarrassing at the time, amazing that people still remember several years on.
Oh, they do. the media often refers to it.
Care to unpack this apparent oxymoron?
Yep I remember watching Saint and Greives as a boy and they had J.Charlton on who was on board of Man U at the time and he was quized about how many time Manure changed their kits in a season, he replied "I think the blue and white one in the fa cup final against Palace was to scare them into thinking we were Brighton" I was so proud
No,but I saw Henry Houghton...leg breaker play
rhyming slang :- jeremys = jeremy hunts
This. THE DOUBLE!?