[Football] Tinpot Albion - Massive Fail?

[Gilliver's Travels]

Just to cheer us all up after yesterday, Owlstalk has a magnificent and thoroughgoing analysis of precisely why, after all those years, and despite everyone's best efforts to cover up the embarrassing truths - Brighton & Hove Albion remains an irredeemably and laughably tinpot enterprise.

It's all here. Plenty of "soulless bowl" and "plastic fans" bingo to enjoy.
Read, weep and learn from our betters.

 

[phoenix]

Just to cheer us all up after yesterday, Owlstalk has a magnificent and thoroughgoing analysis of precisely why, after all those years, and despite everyone's best efforts to cover up the embarrassing truths - Brighton & Hove Albion remains an irredeemably and laughably tinpot enterprise.

It's all here. Plenty of "soulless bowl" and "plastic fans" bingo to enjoy.
Read, weep and learn from our betters.

I'm in the I don't give a feck brigade. Look at the prem table, are sheffield Wednesday 24Th. Good fishing bye the way.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

So what ? What else would they say?
I know which club has more to be proud of, and they are not from Yorkshire!

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Shame they only know 4 words to their song.

HI HO SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY, (inaudible mumble from 20 people)

 

[theboybilly]

As somebody has tried every method (except car) to get from Sheffield City Centre to Hillsborough I would say the Amex is much the easier ground to get to and from.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Some measured posts amongst the bile. But who really cares now. We now play in the PL while their 20 year absence from the top flight continues.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

To be be fair there are one or two sensible posts on the thread. Perhaps the others are from the Wednesday fans who jumped on a Sussex bus in the Amex coach park after their semi-final victory just to jeer at the sad-looking children in their blue and white scarves. True northern heroes I suppose they see themselves as.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Argh, not only are they the biggest and bestest team in the world, they’re even infiltrating NSC ads!

 

[AmexRuislip]

Just to cheer us all up after yesterday, Owlstalk has a magnificent and thoroughgoing analysis of precisely why, after all those years, and despite everyone's best efforts to cover up the embarrassing truths - Brighton & Hove Albion remains an irredeemably and laughably tinpot enterprise.

It's all here. Plenty of "soulless bowl" and "plastic fans" bingo to enjoy.
Read, weep and learn from our betters.

They're just a fvcking joke club who are just jealous of the fact that a so called tinpot club like ourselves made it to the PL before they did.
What a load of bollox they spout on their forum, you'd think just because they've discovered fire, they've made it

 

[wigman]

The fact is that I would rather be in our position than their's.
Stadium, chairman, infrastructure, league position etc.
They've had their day by the seaside and they can gloat over getting to the 4th round.
Other than that, they are irrelevant to me.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Good luck to them - they are now off our radar again, perhaps for a long time.

 

[crodonilson]

They’re a big club but really how many PL clubs are they bigger than?

Us, Palace, Wolverhampton, Bournemouth and Watford?

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Let them enjoy their cup final at the seaside, will be a VERY long time before we play each other again

 

[Beach Hut]

Quite interesting read as quite a few of them clearly view their club as old school therefore they will never evolve into something like we are.

However, some of their fans are clearly deluded over just how big a club they are.

 

[GT49er]

They’re a big club but really how many PL clubs are they bigger than?

Us, Palace, Wolverhampton, Bournemouth and Watford?

In historical terms, certainly not Wolves!

 

[*Gullsworth*]

I think there is a lot of fair comment on there.Owlstalk. We are a relatively small club, like Burnley, Bournemouth, Watford, Palace, and we all realise there are bigger clubs languishing in the Championship, Wednesday, Forest, Leeds, WBA , Derby to name a few. What do fans of these bigger clubs expect us to DO? Stop supporting our club? Sure we have plastic fans but we also have a loyal fan base who have followed us through the darkest of times. We have achieved, as a club something quite remarkable over the last few years. Coventry City have had a similar past to us and they have not achieved what we have......yet.
Probably one by one the big clubs from the Championship will have Premier league status, Leeds and WBA being the obvious candidates with a couple of small clubs passing them on the way. Nothing though is guaranteed and we must hope and pray with a little luck we can make our Premier league stay as long as possible. I for one believe Wednesday are a big club but that alone doesn't give you the right to play in the most lucrative league in the world. We have earned the right but that can slip away in the blink of an eye.
They deserved their win yesterday and we only have ourselves to blame for that but I would rather be in our league posistion than Wednesday's. Let's hope it stays that way for as long as possible.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Sheffield Wednesday. [emoji23]

 

[Whitechapel]

We’ve taken more Premier League points in 2020 (1)?than Sheffield Wednesday have in 2001, 20002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 combined (0).

Who cares if they call us tinpot?

 

[vagabond]

Yeah leave em alone guys. They’re suffering as it is and we didn’t (and still don’t) like the arrogance of so called bigger clubs.

We’re clearly a club on the up, and there’s a lot to be envious of. One of the best British chairman in the country If not the PL, an actual fan of the club. A great stadium, a blossoming youth academy and one of the most exciting young English coaches.

That’s a lot to be arrogant about right there, so we should just keep it classy, smile and pat them on their way.