Made my stomach turn...

[HHGull]

I was surprised by how many were worn.

It's almost as if NSC isn't actually THE barometer of all Albion fans.

Keep you foolish tiddle-twaddle to yourself.

 

[Questions]

FFS ohhh what a list a footballing legends ....

They were. You think it all started with the Premier League ? You're too young then.

 

[Mowgli37]

 

[Mowgli37]

FFS ohhh what a list a footballing legends ....

So who would you consider to be acceptably famous then?

I was born nearly 30 years after this lot were playing and yet I recognise most of them.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Don't get all this fuss about half and half scarfs. Loads of them sold, therefore the club made a few quid on them. That's got to be a good thing, right? It's like a momento from an event - like a programme. I got given one at a Europa Cup Final, FFS!

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Love the title of this thread 'made my stomach turn' My stomach turns when I see something like someones intestines hanging out or leg hanging off not theo Walcott getting onto a bus with a few people holding a bit of paper.

Perhaps I'm made of stronger stuff.

 

[jamie the seagull]

Watching kids and GROWN MEN AND WOMEN wearing BRIGHTON scarves, hats and/or Shirts but crowding desperately round the Arsenal team bus with cameras and autograph books begging for view of the players.
"Theo! Theo look at me! Nice goal!"
FFS wearing Brighton gear! If you want to support Arsenal support them, instead of pretending to support Brighton and after we lose just switch sides...

And you just happened to be passing the West Stand an hour after the game finished and happened upon this site....Or are you just angry Theo did not respond to you..
Sad so sad you are....

 

[stripeyshark]

I'd happily grab a chance to meet any top player (especially those who give their all for my number one team, England). But on a day like today they are just the opposition to the Albion. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[burrish-gull]

They were. You think it all started with the Premier League ? You're too young then.

Im 45 and started going to The Goldstone 1974, if you think that lot are footballing legends you are quite obviously a secret Cheski fan with family ties, just own up...

 

[glasfryn]

Face it, there were at least ten thousand people there today who hadn't come to see the Albion.

this might be so .................and I don't like it either
but they will pay for another player to keep us in the championship.

 

[Mowgli37]

Im 45 and started going to The Goldstone 1974, if you think that lot are footballing legends you are quite obviously a secret Cheski fan with family ties, just own up...

You still haven't answered my question, who do you consider to be footballing legends then?

I don't support Arsenal in any way yet I consider Thierry Henry to be a more recent legend.

 

[Questions]

Im 45 and started going to The Goldstone 1974, if you think that lot are footballing legends you are quite obviously a secret Cheski fan with family ties, just own up...

From my first game in 67ish through to about 1976 I think we only played Chelsea and Wolves(in the league cup)from the top flight so I didn't really have that many teams to pick from. Could have said Derek Dougan or Dave Wagstaff but you wouldn't have heard of them.
It's great that you saw your first game at 4 years of age............did you go on your own.

 

[Bladders]

I remember waiting for the Chelsea players to get off their coach outside the Old west stand at the Goldstone in about 1970. Peter Osgood, Ron Harris, Peter Bonetti, Charlie Cooke. I was in awe of them.

44 years on why should kids be any different. Nothing wrong with it.

Totally different, they had much better hair

 

[Easy 10]

I was genuinely bemused at the huge scrum of fans I had to push through outside the back of the west stand in order to get to the turnstile. Hundreds of them, standing around waiting for the Arsenal bus to turn up, just so they can watch a load of Premiership players in trackies scuttle off a coach clutching their washbags, staring straight ahead, all no doubt wearing Bose headphones the size of Gloucester.

I mean...you're going to see them for 90 minutes soon anyway. WHY the need to hang around like backstage groupies at a One Direction gig waiting for a glimpse ? Odd.

 

[mune ni kamome]

No better or worse than those wearing half and half scarves. It's a part of football that disgusts me.

Do you not think that half and half scarves might just be a memento of the occasion rather than something that disgusts you so badly. Chill.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I was genuinely bemused at the huge scrum of fans I had to push through outside the back of the west stand in order to get to the turnstile. Hundreds of them, standing around waiting for the Arsenal bus to turn up, just so they can watch a load of Premiership players in trackies scuttle off a coach clutching their washbags, staring straight ahead, all no doubt wearing Bose headphones the size of Gloucester.


I mean...you're going to see them for 90 minutes soon anyway. WHY the need to hang around like backstage groupies at a One Direction gig waiting for a glimpse ? Odd.

Totally agree. Whilst negotiating my way around the same lemmings I thought how strange it was for grown adults to be fawning over a bunch of opposition footballers who were looking to end our own aspirations of progressing in the cup. Parents with/and kids is understandable, but grown men in their 50's?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

I'm not worried about such people at all. I just felt it was a one off cup game and genuinely feel more excited about the likes of Brentford and Bournemouth coming here in the league. Plus I suppose I saw us play Arsenal two years ago.

Exactly.
I couldn't understand all the excitement last week for a game that meant nothing more than extra revenue. It felt like deja vu, same old same old. It was obvious that many stayed away from the Ipswich game, to save money for the Arsenal match. They missed the performance of the season, the goals of the season and instead turned up in their thousands to watch a good PL side go through their practise routine against an overawed and outclassed Championship side.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

So who would you consider to be acceptably famous then?

I was born nearly 30 years after this lot were playing and yet I recognise most of them.

This is a cheap throwaway line about players that the poster clearly never saw play and he has let himself down. If you haven't bothered to study football and are not experienced enough to offer a mature and sensible contribution about good players from the past, then don't bother.
Those of us old enough to remember the Chelsea side of that era, know that they were a class outfit and Chelsea fans of today would readily acknowledge the legendary status of a number of that side.

 

[Paskman]

If the other option is knuckle dragging tribal morons baying for blood (and preying for a police cordon) then I'll take the gentrification of soccerball in a lovely stadium, over the Arsenal 'taking the north' on a shitty night some 30 years ago.


Ideally some middle ground would be perfect, but it seems that's not possible.

Remember that night, League Cup game finished 0-0. Bit scary, saw some OAPS beaten up as they couldn't get over the lovely barriers we were forced to watch football through in those days. Oh yes, give me that over the Amex and a few half and half scarves any day!

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Totally agree. Whilst negotiating my way around the same lemmings I thought how strange it was for grown adults to be fawning over a bunch of opposition footballers who were looking to end our own aspirations of progressing in the cup. Parents with/and kids is understandable, but grown men in their 50's?

On the FLS when the opposition coach arrives at the ground and they show a load of sad men and women lining the barrier waiting for autographs and you can see the disdain in the manager/player's eyes as they sign the scrapbook or whatever. Kids I can understand, but adults?