[Albion] The most unpleasant Brighton & Hove Albion fan

[Eeyore]

Oh yes, already done.

Twitter is a sewer, over-run with disease spreading rats and readily drank by folk who know no better.

I deleted my Twitter account and I am no lesser person for it. That way I don't have to waste my emotions fretting over users like that.

The only account I miss is the Southern Rail parody.

 

[Cheggers]

This morning, looking for #BHAFC news on 'X' (yeah, I know) I stumbled across the most unpleasant fan account I've seen.

I don't really want to name it here. He currently only has 29 followers (up from 27 earlier, and that is 29 more than he deserves), but I realise that if I don't it makes this post fairly useless, so it's a quandary.

Claims to be a supporter since the late 80s, but is now expat (and also hates the UK).

He despises (in no particular order): Almost every other Brighton fan, Lewis Dunk, Kaoru Mitoma, Bart Verbruggen, Joel Veltman, Facu Buonanotte Pascal Gross, Tariq Lamptey, Julio Enciso (hard to tell if he likes any of the players tbh), Paul Barber, Tony Bloom, the club's PR admin...

Is this account known here?
Is he really an Albion supporter?

I found it genuinely rather depressing, and feel tainted after reading it.

But I had that 'couldn't look away' social media car crash thing going on, which I usually don't find too hard to extricate myself from. As a content/trigger warning, he is also happy to use ableist and other slurs.

I know there can be some negativity on here, but this is next next level.
Blech.

Are you sure it's not Gus?

 

[Whitechapel]

Assumed this thread would be about BennettsFieldBunny who appears to be genuinely quite a horrible person, as well as being incredibly thick.

 

[Ratso2005]

Twitter is a sewer, over-run with disease spreading rats and readily drank by folk who know no better.

I deleted my Twitter account and I am no lesser person for it. That way I don't have to waste my emotions fretting over users like that.

The only account I miss is the Southern Rail parody.

I mostly agree, and as such I deleted my personal account many months ago, but I have a podcast that needs promoting so - with regret - I kind of have to keep an account going for that.

So, with gritted teeth, I do dip in to #BHAFC via that because, like it or not, it's still invariably the first place that news appears.

 

[GT49er]

See above. I initially put it in, then took it out.

I agree the thread is a bit worthless. I guess I just needed to vent after reading so much nasty stuff about Bloom and the lads.

Is the right answer! I shall now ignore the thread in case some tasteless b*****d decides to copy and paste, or name him, anything in fact that would give the scumbag any publicity.

 

[Ratso2005]

Is the right answer! I shall now ignore the thread in case some tasteless b*****d decides to copy and paste, or name him, anything in fact that would give the scumbag any publicity.

Apologies but I capitulated to and compromised for those who wanted a way to find the nasty stuff.

 

[phoenix]

No, nothing like that.

Ok, the name to search is 'don hurzeler'.

He's so unreal made me laugh simply because he is so OTT in a effort to shock. I really would treat this person with the contempt he deserves. Who cares about him honestly, move on and enjoy our football team

 

[Ratso2005]

He's so unreal made me laugh simply because he is so OTT in a effort to shock. I really would treat this person with the contempt he deserves. Who cares about him honestly move on and enjoy our football team

You are, of course, absolutely right.

Even though I consider myself a 'young' 52 and have been very much internet-present for decades, some online behaviour still baffles me.


I think as much as anything the juxtaposition between my own current Albion Mojo (bubbling between 9 and 11 out of 10) and his was shocking and took me aback.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Twitter is a sewer, over-run with disease spreading rats and readily drank by folk who know no better.

I deleted my Twitter account and I am no lesser person for it. That way I don't have to waste my emotions fretting over users like that.

Indeed this, the main perpetrators will claim “freedom of speech” whilst constantly using vile hatred towards each and everyone, from the safety of their username and their bedroom.

 

[dazzer6666]

You are, of course, absolutely right.

Even though I consider myself a 'young' 52 and have been very much internet-present for decades, some online behaviour still baffles me.


I think as much as anything the juxtaposition between my own current Albion Mojo (bubbling between 9 and 11 out of 10) and his was shocking and took me aback.

It's not really shocking, it's just another attention-seeking twat. Twitter has more than it's fair share

 

[BN9 BHA]

Twitter is a sewer, over-run with disease spreading rats and readily drank by folk who know no better.

I deleted my Twitter account and I am no lesser person for it. That way I don't have to waste my emotions fretting over users like that.

The only account I miss is the Southern Rail parody.

I find it’s very good for local traffic updates. The same information is on Facebook I’m told but I don’t use it.
Non league football news is always good, I’ve mentioned on the Non league thread that some teams don’t have great websites but good info on Twitter.

I don’t like the advertising but I’m not paying to not see them. I block accounts I don’t want to see and use the muted words option.

 

[Hiheidi]

The fact that his account doesn't follow anyone suggests that he has a real account that supports Palace and this is just a secondary one he uses to troll us!

 

[Ratso2005]

The fact that his account doesn't follow anyone suggests that he has a real account that supports Palace and this is just a secondary one he uses to troll us!

Good spot, fair point.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Anyhoo, if you think this dude is unpleasant you should (or ideally shouldn’t) read Darren Grimes or Isobel Oakeshit

 

[Weststander]

Palace.

Yep.

Naming Dunk was the dead giveaway.

 

[Ratso2005]

Anyhoo, if you think this dude is unpleasant you should (or ideally shouldn’t) read Darren Grimes or Isobel Oakeshit

I am aware of them and hate them both (and many more of their ilk).

They don't tend to slag off Tony and the boys though.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

They don't tend to slag off Tony and the boys though.

Tony’s white and wealthy so yes, they’re unlikely to.

 

[Peppermint Tea]

His content has just been served up on my X “For you” feed. I would say definitely a troll, and one that has amassed a whole 32 followers now. If he’s not a troll, then he needs some help with life.

Also he doesn’t seem to know the difference between “contempt” and “content” (as in happy).

Anyway, I’ve blocked him. No interest in reading his cocktail of vitriol and ignorance.

 

[Muzzman]

Take it at as a sign. Don’t give X the time of day, delete it from your phone. Anything about the Albion on X worth remotely reading will end up in here within minutes anyway. Of course it should be taken as a pinch of salt even then. X doesn’t deserve your anxiety and you certainly don’t deserve to feel the way you do about some no-mark. Get rid of X. Be happy.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Take it at as a sign. Don’t give X the time of day, delete it from your phone. Anything about the Albion on X worth remotely reading will end up in here within minutes anyway. Of course it should be taken as a pinch of salt even then. X doesn’t deserve your anxiety and you certainly don’t deserve to feel the way you do about some no-mark. Get rid of X. Be happy.

Amen brother. Viva NSC!