Oddest place you've met a fellow fan

[Perry Milkins]

1. In about 1988 in Busch Gardens FLA. I think then had just come off one of those deluge water risdes and was dripping.

2. Many years later in one of the shopping malls in Kissimme fla.

3. On a Bank course in Oxfordshire. You had to get there on the Sunday night to start early Monday. I ws in the bar reaaly fed up as i did not want to be there. Mst of the 'OK ya' types were discussing all things bank and were quite obnoxious and boring. Struck up a convo with this blke and soon enough it got around to football when he asked who I supported. I said 'Brighton' and his eyes lit up as he was also one of gods only. I think his surname was Pugh and he came from Tunbridge Wells.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Queuing at the hotel bar in Lanzarote a few years ago, I noticed the bloke next to me was wearing a pair of Albion shorts. I then realised the owner of the shorts was none other than Gary Hart, who happened to be staying at the same complex as us (with his young daughter and rather fetching wife). This would have been summer 2001, so we'd just won the 4th division.

Naturally I exposed myself to him as an Albion fan and struck up a bit of conversation. Very pleasant chap, and we had a few chats during the course of our holiday. Doesn't really count on this thread though I suppose, being as OGH isn't an Albion fan as such.

So you're admitting that when on holiday, you lasciviously eye up young men's shorts before reluctantly much later turning your attention to their clearly far less-interesting faces...

 

[Easy 10]

So you're admitting that when on holiday, you lasciviously eye up young men's shorts before reluctantly much later turning your attention to their clearly far less-interesting faces...

Doesn't everyone ?

 

[Franks Wild Years]

A few years ago I lived around the corner from Bristol City's ground, Ashton Gate, one Saturday whilst out buying the weekend newspapers to my surprise I saw hundreds of people all wearing Albion tops. To add to the coincidence, later in the day Brighton played Bristol City at Ashton Gate.
What are the chances of that eh ?

 

[pasty]

Without previously knowing who he was, I once ended up sat next to NSC-er Deanos Right Foot on a train home from London. I only saw who he was as he was reading NSC and I spotted his user name. Using my blackberry I posted a thread without him knowing who I was either.

http://www.northstandchat.biz/showthread.php?t=115670

 

[Man of Harveys]

Doesn't everyone ?

*breaths sigh of relief* I thought it was just me...

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I then realised the owner of the shorts was none other than Gary Hart,
Naturally I exposed myself to him .

Naturally.

 

[cardboard]

In a bar in Cabopino (Marbella) if fact before he moved out there he owned a shop in the road i was living in.

Shame the match we were watching was the Blackpool home game!!!! (1-4 or 0-3 or something equally horrendous)

 

[Mr Banana]

Met an Albion fan on a bus between planes at Zurich airport earlier this year. Turned out to be Notters' brother. Top bloke.

 

[Storer68]

Dec 2002 - was walking down Little Bourke Street in Melbourne, in a "Double Champions" t-shirt on the way back from the Boxing Day Test at the MCG for someone walking past me the other way, to blurt out that we'd beaten Norwich! - Never said anything else as he walked past!

 

[Ding Dong !]

Arriving into Atlanta once I saw a guy with just a t shirt on saying Brighton ( no logo or anything so for all I knew it could have been just the place name in the US ).

I went up to him anyway and asked what the Albion score was that afternoon. Luckily he said oh you a Brighton fan then ? We won 2-0.

Good start to my US trip that was.

 

[Everest]

I then realised the owner of the shorts was none other than Gary Hart,
Naturally I exposed myself to him

Is that why his formed dipped a bit?

 

[Sonic The Hedgehog]

Blackpool :yahoo:

Is that weird enough?

 

[Brother Sid]

Saw a fellow albion fan wearing the stripes going up the cable car to the Giant Buddha at
Po Lin Monastery in Hong Kong , unfortunately I was travelling in the opposite direction.

 

[pork pie]

Brown Derby Bar iin St. Pete's Beach Florida, in about 1990. There was a whole load of them - fantastic piss-up. Shame about the hangover at my business meeting the following morning!

Come to think of it - it's not strange to meet Brighton fans in a pub with that name?! ... ....

 

[element]

Walking through Arricefe in December 2003...

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Orlando florida....QUOTE]

I reckon that was me was it outside Seaworld in Jan 2007

I had a Albion Polo Shirt on !!

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

What's the most unusual or distant place you've bumped into a fellow supporter ?
Mine was Darling Harbour in Sydney a few years ago. I was sitting in the sun in my Brighton shirt when a voice said to me "how we doing this year ?"
It was a fellow fan who had lived there for many years but still followed them via the internet. We had a few minutes chat about the Seagulls and clearly he knew his stuff.

I met a fellow fan whilst working in Sydney to,I was doing a furniture removal from chatsworth to Manly,the client pinged my tatoo,We were chatting for ages,until my workmates got the arsehole with doing all the lifting....

 

[WEVEGOT5FOOTCOX!]

Although he was not a fan, i was quite bemused when i came across a mexican in San diego inquiring if our light blue 2005 home kit was still being sold while wearing the stripes about 2 years ago. I was unaware of our international fanbase especially in this little town i had visited and was shown pictures of this group of elderly mexicans sporting our british caledonian strip. Seems the mighty Seagulls are well known everywhere. wouldnt have it any other way

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Saw a Palace fan in a nightclub in Manchester, which could not be overlooked. On further discussion about the situation, he knew another Albion fan who had done similar. It turned out the fellow fan had been my brother.

Not quite "Oddest place to meet a fellow fan", more "Oddest place to meet a rival fan who knows your brother". I guess the latter doesn't really fly as a thread though.