"I'm in Brighton... what a shit hole. Seriously horrid."

[Return of the Rev]

The Brighton bypass is a joy! get the cons on it litter picking now!

 

[Se20]

I think you'll find, Norman Cook is from Brighton. It's Quentin Leo Cook who's NOT from Brighton!

Yes, Quentin was born in Bromley and supported Palace.
Then Norman joined the Housemartins and became northern.
Then he became FBS and became a weed.
Confused ain't the word !

 

[Mr deez]

I love Brighton, but it does look a mess right now when arriving by train. I know queens road is nicer than it was, but most would then continue down west st to see the famous sea front, only to discover it's currently a building site.

 

[Geestar]

Well if that's the case, f@ck the football, I'm off to Norwich. Can't wait!

Said no one ever

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Yes, Quentin was born in Bromley and supported Palace.
Then Norman joined the Housemartins and became northern.
Then he became FBS and became a weed.
Confused ain't the word !

Yes Londoners do have a connection with Albion.........Take the Bloom Family for example http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/2310803.bloom_influence_grows_as_albion_head_for_falmer/

As for ex Palace becoming Brighton,sure i think a few current Albion supporters may have parents or grandparents that once supported Palace and moved to Sussex,yet the children/grandchildren now support Albion...

I would suspect this could be the case for a lot of teams,when people move over the years..

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Yes, Quentin was born in Bromley and supported Palace.
Then Norman joined the Housemartins and became northern.
Then he became FBS and became a weed.
Confused ain't the word !

It could have been worse, he could have been Millwall like his dad.

 

[The Clamp]

Says a new thread on the Norwich "message board", er, Wrath of the Barclay.(Some serious wrath there!)

Does our city really seem that bad to first-time visitors?

Had to pop into Brighton for a job on Friday. Hadn't been in for a while. Yeah, it is a bit of a grubby mess at the moment. It has gone downhill rapidly in the last 8 years.

 

[oneillco]

Yes Londoners do have a connection with Albion.........Take the Bloom Family for example http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/2310803.bloom_influence_grows_as_albion_head_for_falmer/

As for ex Palace becoming Brighton,sure i think a few current Albion supporters may have parents or grandparents that once supported Palace and moved to Sussex,yet the children/grandchildren now support Albion...

I would suspect this could be the case for a lot of teams,when people move over the years..

This is true, I know a couple of dads who supported Palace growing up but have moved to the coast and have Seagull supporting kids, and indeed take them to the AMEX and cheer when Albion score.

 

[The Rattler]

Should try living in London Colney

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Had to pop into Brighton for a job on Friday. Hadn't been in for a while. Yeah, it is a bit of a grubby mess at the moment. It has gone downhill rapidly in the last 8 years.

I don't know,we used to play at an athletics stadium, also have had the green party (party for all things environment) running the place-you sure it was not Portsmouth you visited by mistake.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

This is true, I know a couple of dads who supported Palace growing up but have moved to the coast and have Seagull supporting kids, and indeed take them to the AMEX and cheer when Albion score.

It's only fair,if i moved to London and was close to SE25,i would take my daughters(if they wanted to support Palace) to Selhurst,i would absolutely insist on wearing a seagull badge on my shirt..

Ps.....keep an eye out for those Eagle lapel badges

 

[oneillco]

It's only fair,if i moved to London and was close to SE25,i would take my daughters to Selhurst,i would absolutely insist on wearing a seagull badge on my shirt..

Ps.....keep an eye out for those Eagle lapel badges

One of these blokes has almost completed full affiliation reassignment from Eagle to Seagull over the last 20 years and wears blue and white scarf to matches. I think he looks out for Palace results but that is about it.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

One of these blokes has almost completed full affiliation reassignment from Eagle to Seagull over the last 20 years and wears blue and white scarf to matches. I think he looks out for Palace results but that is about it.

Don't trust him...................double agent besides Palace do a Blue training to with a white eagle badge on it,very clever it is for down here,saw a bloke in Lewes wearing one..

 

[portslade seagull]

Must admit my group of friends when we go on tend to avoid Brighton and stick to hove

 

[fosters headband]

Yes Londoners do have a connection with Albion.........Take the Bloom Family for example http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/2310803.bloom_influence_grows_as_albion_head_for_falmer/

As for ex Palace becoming Brighton,sure i think a few current Albion supporters may have parents or grandparents that once supported Palace and moved to Sussex,yet the children/grandchildren now support Albion...

I would suspect this could be the case for a lot of teams,when people move over the years..

This is spot on in my case, my Father, Grandfather, Uncles and Cousins were all Palace and we moved to Brighton when I was 12, I went to the Goldstone on my own and was hooked. That was sixty years ago. Now as my own family has grown the Albion fans amongst us has risen and the Palace relatives have really dwindled. I can only see the majority growing as the new generations grow up in Brighton.

 

[The Clamp]

I don't know,we used to play at an athletics stadium, also have had the green party (party for all things environment) running the place-you sure it was not Portsmouth you visited by mistake.

True, though I actually miss match days at Withdean! I just noticed that even the new paving on Queens Road is already stained and grubby with litter lying all over, the plant pots are full of litter and fag ends, beggars are more aggressive, the proliferation of supermarket express shops is embarrassing for a city with a rep for nice shops, if it's not a Sainsbury's local or Tesco Express it's badly kempt, poorly stocked Polish or Arab shops with crap signage selling cheap tat, 6 cans of Fosters for £5 and e-cigs, the train station entrance covered in crap little vans selling vastly overpriced coffee and sausages with their cables snaking all over the paving which you have to dodge as well as avoid getting asked for a cigarette by a romanian homeless.
Some lovely areas of the city that only locals would know about but visitors must step out of the station and if they manage to get 4 paces without being run over by a bus or a taxi and make it onto Queens road must wonder where they Brighton the heard so much about has gone?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

True, though I actually miss match days at Withdean! I just noticed that even the new paving on Queens Road is already stained and grubby with litter lying all over, the plant pots are full of litter and fag ends, beggars are more aggressive, the proliferation of supermarket express shops is embarrassing for a city with a rep for nice shops, if it's not a Sainsbury's local or Tesco Express it's badly kempt, poorly stocked Polish or Arab shops with crap signage selling cheap tat, 6 cans of Fosters for £5 and e-cigs, the train station entrance covered in crap little vans selling vastly overpriced coffee and sausages with their cables snaking all over the paving which you have to dodge as well as avoid getting asked for a cigarette by a romanian homeless.
Some lovely areas of the city that only locals would know about but visitors must step out of the station and if they manage to get 4 paces without being run over by a bus or a taxi and make it onto Queens road must wonder where they Brighton the heard so much about has gone?

It would take some work with traffic,but could you ever envisage Queens road becoming a pedestrian zone? Could it improve things or would it just get cluttered?

I agree with almost all of the above.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

This is spot on in my case, my Father, Grandfather, Uncles and Cousins were all Palace and we moved to Brighton when I was 12, I went to the Goldstone on my own and was hooked. That was sixty years ago. Now as my own family has grown the Albion fans amongst us has risen and the Palace relatives have really dwindled. I can only see the majority growing as the new generations grow up in Brighton.

Bet you glad you went now.......

 

[The Clamp]

It would take some work with traffic,but could you ever envisage Queens road becoming a pedestrian zone? Could it improve things or would it just get cluttered?

I agree with almost all of the above.

It doesn't need pedestrianisation it needs council regs on the sort of business that can setup there. A bit like the shops, pubs and restaurants in Tattenham Corner. They are regulated and need to stick to strict criteria to keep the feel of the place. That needs to happen in Brighton. The so called free spirit of the place has resulted in a free for all for crap businesses that will be closed in 6 months and the space left to rot until someone opens up a locally sourced vegetarian coffee shop or a Polski Smaki internet phone unlocking wrapping paper etched mirror luggage bong phone card noodle shop.

 

[fosters headband]

Bet you glad you went now.......

Yep and I think so do all my children and grandchildren, who have all grown up supporting and loving the Albion, they I have noticed, are also joining me in my total dislike of all things Palace.