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[Brighton] New Fan: Where to Start?
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Good job he didn’t settle on Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club
Slum_Wolf
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Er, he’s here?
portlock seagull
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Adopted? We’re not some puppy for Xmas thank you very much. Try supporting your local club instead and build up some pride there over decades rather than jumping on a bandwagon the other side of the world because it’s more shiny.
Algernon
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Soul Finger
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How many in here would support a non-league club instead of Brighton if they supported their local club?
The reason why 30k people go the Amex to watch Brighton and 242 people go and watch Whitehawks FC is because one of the clubs are good and the other is shit. Or to use your words, Brighton is more shiny.
portlock seagull
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Local Pro club you idiot.
Many of us do both
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You would say that because you live in Sweden, have never seen Brighton play live and are one fan amongst the very many global fans that have ‘jumped on the bandwagon’ of Clubs when they have become top flight or when a particular player or manager joined the Club. (Said in the nicest possible way and not meant as a criticism, it is what it is)
I support Brighton because I grew up in Brighton and lived there for 50 years so always will but I am fortunate enough that my local team now happens to be a Championship side.
I think for some Brighton fans who have put the leg work and commitment in over decades from when we were very much a local 3rd/2nd division club, it still understandably sticks in the craw for some of us when new fans join what is the results of years of graft. It is largely thanks to this legion of community based Brighton fans (I include myself in that) that the Clubs exists today in its new ‘shiny’ form.
That said the Club is now in the best football League in the World where football is played at a pace and intensity you rarely see outside the EPL so it’s inevitable it will attract international players, managers and therefore ‘plastic’ fans from all over the World, some of whom will never step inside the stadium.
So I say hats off to the OP who is respectful enough to make an effort to understand our history, our fans and the culture of the Club. That’s a good first step to becoming a genuine fan - it’s not just about being knowledgable about football or supporting the best football teams
.(Btw Whitehawk FC are a decent semi-pro Club not ‘shit’ - just a different type and level of football in a very different pond so way to piss off any Wfc fans on NSC)
I'll tell you what, find a video of someone doing it, so you know how it should be done.
Hopefully I've saved you some embarrassment.
Oh - and welcome. You've chosen a great team, but perhaps more importantly, you've chosen the best sport in the world to watch.
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I think I need to use certain functions on the NSC filters for a while so I don‘t respond I’m beginning to feel rather triggered.making lots of friends this “holiday season”, Swansman. Ban number 13 coming up?
Btw hope you are feeling a bit better.
Ok I'm not reading this but I know what it says. It says "bla bla bla" and "something something Graham Potter" and more "bla bla".You would say that because you live in Sweden, have never seen Brighton play live and are one fan amongst the very many global fans that have ‘jumped on the bandwagon’ of Clubs when they have become top flight or when a particular player or manager joined the Club. (Said in the nicest possible way and not meant as a criticism, it is what it is)
I support Brighton because I grew up in Brighton and lived there for 50 years so always will but I am fortunate enough that my local team now happens to be a Championship side.
I think for some Brighton fans who have put the leg work and commitment in over decades from when we were very much a local 3rd/2nd division club, it still understandably sticks in the craw for some of us when new fans join what is the results of years of graft. It is largely thanks to this legion of community based Brighton fans (I include myself in that) that the Clubs exists today in its new ‘shiny’ form.
That said the Club is now in the best football League in the World where football is played at a pace and intensity you rarely see outside the EPL so it’s inevitable it will attract international players, managers and therefore ‘plastic’ fans from all over the World, some of whom will never step inside the stadium.
So I say hats off to the OP who is respectful enough to make an effort to understand our history, our fans and the culture of the Club. That’s a good first step to becoming a genuine fan - it’s not just about being knowledgable about football or supporting the best football teams
(Btw Whitehawk FC are a decent semi-pro Club not ‘shit’ - just a different type and level of football in a very different pond so way to piss off any Wfc fans on NSC)
People support clubs because someone made them do it. A manager, a mother, a father, a brother, sister, friend, favorite player, the boss who gave you a job in a different location, the TV programme introducing the team, radio reports. Whatever, wherever.
The number of fans who just walked out blindly into the streets finding themselves a football club they had no previous knowledge or relation to... well, they're few.
Sure, there's a lot of people who might say "I followed my HEART and my DREAM and RAN INTO GOLDSTONE GROUNDS and KISSED the toilet floor", but generally that kind of person is full of shit. In reality its usually more "well, my brother used to go and he dragged me there and now I'm f***ing stuck for the next 50 years with this hopeless football team that will never win anything".
Everyone is inspired by someone. In Yankeetown it is a common practice to "choose a team" and it sounds very weird to us in Europe because we'd like to think there was some sort of magic that made us find ours. So we look down on the yankee way of doing it, DESPITE them actually CHOOSING the club for its beauty rather than getting forcefed with it because of some family tradition or whatever. Quite funny.
Nah I say welcome the lad in! The right to remain merely a local matter was one of the things that was traded off when Tony bought the club. There will be Brightonians everywhere... just accept it.
I actually don't think its controversial to say that a club generally has more fans than another club due to some level of success.
It works the same everywhere. If everyone in Hamburg supported their local local club with no consideration of "shinyness", a bunch of clubs would have 10k attendances. Lower leagues in the entire world would have same or similar attendances as the top divisions. But it isn't the case, because the better you are the more people you attract - generally (still not seen a single Manchester City fan after 25 years on the Internet).
Seagull58
In the Algarve
It's "Whitehawk FC"
doogie004
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At yesterdays game watching shit
I'll remember that.
Anyway, if any Whitehawk fans are offended... well, isn't that the purpose of modern life? Anyway, I of course meant nothing bad about Whitehawk. I meant "shite" as in "worse at football than some other teams".