West Sussex Resident on Talksport

[glasfryn]

support your home town/city football team all others should be just passing interest.......................its the law

 

[Brovion]

support your home town/city football team all others should be just passing interest.......................its the law

How far down do you draw the line though? Should people from Lewes or Worthing support their local teams and not the Albion? To say nothing of the inhabitants of Crawley and it's surrounding villages. If you come from around Haywards Heath you'd better get that ruler out, you might find that you should be supporting plucky little Crawley as opposed to 'Big' Brighton.

 

[glasfryn]

How far down do you draw the line though? Should people from Lewes or Worthing support their local teams and not the Albion? To say nothing of the inhabitants of Crawley and it's surrounding villages. If you come from around Haywards Heath you'd better get that ruler out, you might find that you should be supporting plucky little Crawley as opposed to 'Big' Brighton.

its means what it says
I have lived in Shrewsbury, London, chelmsford, and watched all of them (London QPR and Fulham) and if by chance the Albion played any of them(mainly Shrewsbury) I stood in the Brighton end
Home town/city IMHO supporting and watching are two different animals

 

[middletoenail]

He is the sort that calls Man Utd fans in Brighton glory hunters, with no hint of irony

Don't you support Tottenham? ;-)

 

[Thunder Bolt]

So, Tommy Elphick, born & brought up in Woodingdean, shouldn't support Liverpool, or Adam El-Abd, from Saltdean, shouldn't be a Forest supporter?

It happens.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Don't you support Tottenham? ;-)

Glory hunting Spurs fan?

I actually go to games! season ticket

 

[smudge]

Always a massive LFC flag in the Waterside on Shoreham Beach when the dippers are on the box. Like an away day for them I suppose.

 

[middletoenail]

Glory hunting Spurs fan?

I actually go to games! season ticket

It's not like Liverpool have won much recently either, what's wrong with supporting your local team?

 

[Bozza]

So, Tommy Elphick, born & brought up in Woodingdean, shouldn't support Liverpool, or Adam El-Abd, from Saltdean, shouldn't be a Forest supporter?

It happens.

No, they shouldn't unless there are family reasons, ties or history for doing so. My kids had their early years in North Somerset but they were never going to be supporters of one of the Bristol teams and were also never going to be a Premier League team glory-hunter.

As it turns out we're all back in Sussex now, so watching the Albion is easier, fortunately.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I know the type, never been to Anfield but first in front of the TV in the ' Farmers Arms' when Liverpool are on SKY.
Wearing his replica shirt with Gerard 8 on the back of course.

Absolutely 100% this. You know they are plastics when they wear a replica shirt with a misspelt name on it

 

[Brovion]

its means what it says
I have lived in Shrewsbury, London, chelmsford, and watched all of them (London QPR and Fulham) and if by chance the Albion played any of them(mainly Shrewsbury) I stood in the Brighton end
Home town/city IMHO supporting and watching are two different animals

That hasn't answered my question.

 

[Wilko]

I was explaining to my boy this evening that the football team you support is decided, at birth, by the use of a map (and a ruler should there be any doubt); you cannot simply "choose" which team to support because they win a lot or have nice colours.

Frank Skinner said this in a stand up. You are born, you get a map out, find the nearest team and that is you set for life no matter what.

 

[glasfryn]

That hasn't answered my question.

think it has you support your local team and if you want something else other than Lewes ect you can always be a st holder at the Albion
and if the fixtures clash default to your local team

 

[glasfryn]

Frank Skinner said this in a stand up. You are born, you get a map out, find the nearest team and that is you set for life no matter what.

exactly even if it is Palace

 

[Felpham Seagull]

Whats worse hearing a Liverpool fan from Liverpool talking in that dreadful scouse accent or a glory boy from the south talking bollecks

 

[Mr Smggles]

Frank Skinner said this in a stand up. You are born, you get a map out, find the nearest team and that is you set for life no matter what.

That's me ****ed. Singapore FC it is then.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

The usual explanation for the typical southern suburb div who supports United/Liverpool/Arsenal etc is 'I've supported em since I was 3 mate!'

The best response for this is 'yeah - well I played with Thomas The Tank Engine toys when I was 3, then I grew up and knocked it on the head...'

Rarely get a logical argument to that.

 

[Brovion]

think it has you support your local team and if you want something else other than Lewes ect you can always be a st holder at the Albion
and if the fixtures clash default to your local team

So if I lived in, say, Handcross and normally supported Brighton, if they played Crawley I should support Crawley as they're my local team?

 

[Brovion]

That's me ****ed. Singapore FC it is then.

I'd be a Palace fan!

 

[Wilko]

exactly even if it is Palace

Exactly. If I was born and bred in Croydon then I would be a Palace fan. I do actually have a fair bit of respect for Palace fans because it would be so easy to support Chelsea or Arsenal via a short train journey.