[Albion] Marseille fans

[A1X]

Bother outside the ground. Old woman pushed over. No idea who is involved but rozzers very quickly on the scene.

It serves Hodgson right for turning up in the first place TBH

(I jest, hope she’s OK)

 

[Guinness Boy]

No when the goal went in as the young uns say we had limbs waving it about like a loony and put it down side of my seat and forgot it

**** me mate, nothing changes.

 

[Eeyore]

**** me mate, nothing changes.

@HangletonGull is definitely a limbs person if I recall correctly, I'm just a clap and 'jolly good' and I think you were always somewhere in between.

I think I'm the best bowler of the three though.

 

[Sussax]

My arm aches after waving around a scarf, does that count as a ‘Marseille injury’?

 

[Questions]

I sat next to them and I can honestly say they never stopped singing even for 10 secs.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I sat next to them and I can homoday they never stopped singing even for 10 secs.

You can homoday say that? Well, it must be true then.

 

[Sheebo]

Got to commend them for sparking up those flares seconds before Pedro scored.
Made the atmosphere that little bit more special.

You’re shit argggggggghhhhhhhhh!

Oh I thought they’d done it after and was thinking what the hell are they doing…! The fact it was before is beautiful - bye bye…

 

[RM-Taylor]

All this talk of nasty Marseille fans and they turned out to be bloody lovely. They could see we weren't able to get flares in, so they lit theirs to celebrate our goal. Chivalrous lot them French.

 

[Sheebo]

I sat next to them and I can homoday they never stopped singing even for 10 secs.

Was it homoday today? Sounds fun

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

I sat next to them and I can homoday they never stopped singing even for 10 secs.

It's just noise though directed by a goon with a megaphone not the slightest bit interested in the game.

 

[Munkfish]

Glad to see people standing on the wall of the pitch for 90 mins with a megaphone is allowed. Not to mention Marseille fans rocking up in shirts and scarfs in the west stand.

Hope they are still in the ground.

 

[scoobiewhite]

The money real?

Well it passed at the bar!

 

[scoobiewhite]

Well done Scoobie.

No doubt you told them that that red note with 50 written on it was our 50 pence note.

Ha!

Honestly though, it was a good reminder that so many fans are neither violent or privileged.

They were clearly a working class family who had spent an amount of money that is hard to find on coming to see their team in Brighton and I was glad for the opportunity to show them some respect and a warm welcome.

Of course that’s easier to write when we just topped our first ever European group!

What a night!

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Up there with one of my most memorable Brighton moments. Just superb. Atmosphere was superb, yes it dropped a bit, but the players would have appreciated our effort ️

 

[drew]

What we do know from tonight is the the Sussex Police pyrotechnic dogs need more training!!

 

[LamieRobertson]

What we do know from tonight is the the Sussex Police pyrotechnic dogs need more training!!

Aye….and some of those ‘flares’ seemed rather large

 

[Clive Walker]

 

[Lethargic]

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But not a bottle top to be seen, so nothing to see here

 

[ManOfSussex]

But not a bottle top to be seen, so nothing to see here

It was the thought of them with Thermos flasks full of Café Au Lait that I was worried about.

 

[Cotton Socks]

This is what appened right, so we walked frew stammer park, right and there was this big group of ultras, right. I knew they were ultras cos they sounded french when they asked me the way to the Amex right. I was gonna tell em to turne droit at The Keep right, but the police messed up my plans!
There was a massive queue for the carpark because a police van had got stuck under the bridge. So I said that they should step aside and stay safe until the police van had reversed & even did a bit of holding them back with my arms. They then went on a complete rampage of filming the van reversing before following us under the bridge and to the stadium. I personally felt they were a bit rude because they laughed at me when I asked jnr whether it was gauche or driot.
Only some of the above happened.