Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
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As we seem to have a lot of visitors from other clubs, I thought perhaps we should provide tips for tourists. Lets give fans of other clubs the knowledge they will need to successfully navigate NSC. To start I offer an introduction to the locals:
NSC Inhabitants:
This board is made up of several distinct groups:
a) Palace fans: Some friendly, some not, some, weirdly, pretending to be Brighton fans;
b) Fans of other clubs: some, perhaps like you, visiting because their team is to play Brighton, some who like the large amounts of non-football stuff and one who claims to support Oxford, but who seems solely motivated by an inexplicable hatred of everything to do with BHA;
c) Brighton fans: This is the largest group. The first thing you need to know about Brighton fans is that they support Brighton. This may seem obvious, but it’s worth remembering, as it may explain why they look at matters involving Brighton in a different way to you. For instance:
You may view Brighton as a small club with no history. This is either because you think history is measured by trophies, or because you don’t know our history. If the first is true, presumably you also think that the British Working Class has no history because none of them has ever been king. If the second is true, then that’s no shame: We probably don’t know the history of your club either. All you need to know about our recent history, which involves heartache and joy, poetry, trumpets and destruction of goalposts, very long trips to home games, very long waits for planning consents, lobbying of parliament, an illicit pie, a Knight, a Bloom and the occasional bit of football, is that it has formed our character.
Brighton fans are argumentative, they are quick to find offence and they have a keen sense of injustice. This means that we won’t ever shut up about things that we view as unfair. This may come across as a bit precious when applied to refereeing decisions from thirty years ago, but it is also what drives many on here to work to support fans of other clubs who are facing injustice. Try to remember that the stubborn git who is arguing with you about a sending off, would be just as stubborn when offering you help to defend of your rights, were your club to be stolen away from you by indifferent moneymen.
Most Brighton fans are from Sussex. You probably know or care little about Sussex, but it may interest you to know that it has more millionaires per head of the population than any other county in the UK. This suggests that a lot of people who could afford to live anywhere choose to live in Sussex. Like any county, it has its run down bits but a lot of people on here think it’s the best place in the country. That is their view. If you are from Yorkshire, perhaps you can understand people having the view that their home is in some way that bit more special than anywhere else. Think of your belief that Yorkshire is the greatest place on the earth. It’s like that, except based on facts and reasons.
NSC Inhabitants:
This board is made up of several distinct groups:
a) Palace fans: Some friendly, some not, some, weirdly, pretending to be Brighton fans;
b) Fans of other clubs: some, perhaps like you, visiting because their team is to play Brighton, some who like the large amounts of non-football stuff and one who claims to support Oxford, but who seems solely motivated by an inexplicable hatred of everything to do with BHA;
c) Brighton fans: This is the largest group. The first thing you need to know about Brighton fans is that they support Brighton. This may seem obvious, but it’s worth remembering, as it may explain why they look at matters involving Brighton in a different way to you. For instance:
You may view Brighton as a small club with no history. This is either because you think history is measured by trophies, or because you don’t know our history. If the first is true, presumably you also think that the British Working Class has no history because none of them has ever been king. If the second is true, then that’s no shame: We probably don’t know the history of your club either. All you need to know about our recent history, which involves heartache and joy, poetry, trumpets and destruction of goalposts, very long trips to home games, very long waits for planning consents, lobbying of parliament, an illicit pie, a Knight, a Bloom and the occasional bit of football, is that it has formed our character.
Brighton fans are argumentative, they are quick to find offence and they have a keen sense of injustice. This means that we won’t ever shut up about things that we view as unfair. This may come across as a bit precious when applied to refereeing decisions from thirty years ago, but it is also what drives many on here to work to support fans of other clubs who are facing injustice. Try to remember that the stubborn git who is arguing with you about a sending off, would be just as stubborn when offering you help to defend of your rights, were your club to be stolen away from you by indifferent moneymen.
Most Brighton fans are from Sussex. You probably know or care little about Sussex, but it may interest you to know that it has more millionaires per head of the population than any other county in the UK. This suggests that a lot of people who could afford to live anywhere choose to live in Sussex. Like any county, it has its run down bits but a lot of people on here think it’s the best place in the country. That is their view. If you are from Yorkshire, perhaps you can understand people having the view that their home is in some way that bit more special than anywhere else. Think of your belief that Yorkshire is the greatest place on the earth. It’s like that, except based on facts and reasons.
