andybaha
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My 10 year old son and myself have attended nearly every game at Withdean this season including the FA Cup and Johnstone Paint ties but as we buy our tickets game by game we weren't even entitled to apply for tickets at West Ham. I wanted for him to see a proper stadium so I had to bite the bullet and bought two tickets for the Skinhead Moonstomp Stand (Upper Tier).
We took our seats among a sea of claret and blue clad chavs, I had hoped there might be one or two Albion fans around but if there were they were keeping their heads down like us. My lad was a bit worried as to what would happen if the Albion scored and he jumped up in celebration. Once Alex Revell shanked his shot closer to the half way line than the goal I felt able to assure him it was something we would worry about when it happened. His usual shout of 'Skin him Jakey' wasn't called into use either.
Once the threat of getting your head kicked in subsided it was very interesting. A couple of rows behind us was a bloke with a hair lip. Fortunately for him one of the few words he was able to say without impediment was 'C***'. I say fortunately because it seemed to make up most of his vocabulary. The words Anton Ferdinand were never used without the word c*** appearing in the same sentance.
The general opinion of the crowd of course was that everyone in Brighton including the whole team and the substitues etc are gay.
I thought there was a certain irony to their constant chants of 'Come on you Irons'. I listened to the story told by one supported of how when he was at an away game in Brighton he had been offered a spare pie by a Brighton supporter but had told him 'To stick it up his gay arse because he didn't want to catch AIDS'. I wanted to tell him that this happens a lot but normally any spare pies are given to Guy Butters.
At half time the West Ham crowd were not particularly happy with their team's performance. I think their goal came at just the right time for them. Another 10 minutes and the crowd would have been on their backs big time. Tevez seems to be popular and there is a genuine desire for him to succeed. Most WH fans thought he had a fantastic game even allowing for the fact it was against Brighton.
When the final goal went in my lad was up and celebrating with the West Ham fans. When I asked him what he was doing he said that he just wanted something to cheer, that West Ham were good and we were rubbish. I'm afraid I didn't have an answer.
We took our seats among a sea of claret and blue clad chavs, I had hoped there might be one or two Albion fans around but if there were they were keeping their heads down like us. My lad was a bit worried as to what would happen if the Albion scored and he jumped up in celebration. Once Alex Revell shanked his shot closer to the half way line than the goal I felt able to assure him it was something we would worry about when it happened. His usual shout of 'Skin him Jakey' wasn't called into use either.
Once the threat of getting your head kicked in subsided it was very interesting. A couple of rows behind us was a bloke with a hair lip. Fortunately for him one of the few words he was able to say without impediment was 'C***'. I say fortunately because it seemed to make up most of his vocabulary. The words Anton Ferdinand were never used without the word c*** appearing in the same sentance.
The general opinion of the crowd of course was that everyone in Brighton including the whole team and the substitues etc are gay.
I thought there was a certain irony to their constant chants of 'Come on you Irons'. I listened to the story told by one supported of how when he was at an away game in Brighton he had been offered a spare pie by a Brighton supporter but had told him 'To stick it up his gay arse because he didn't want to catch AIDS'. I wanted to tell him that this happens a lot but normally any spare pies are given to Guy Butters.
At half time the West Ham crowd were not particularly happy with their team's performance. I think their goal came at just the right time for them. Another 10 minutes and the crowd would have been on their backs big time. Tevez seems to be popular and there is a genuine desire for him to succeed. Most WH fans thought he had a fantastic game even allowing for the fact it was against Brighton.
When the final goal went in my lad was up and celebrating with the West Ham fans. When I asked him what he was doing he said that he just wanted something to cheer, that West Ham were good and we were rubbish. I'm afraid I didn't have an answer.
spare pies? Please, give him your spare change in future NOT pies!