What is wrong with some people who go to premier league matches

[Megazone]

Half and half scarves are a bad idea for football hooligans.

It will fool them into attacking their own reflection, if it be the wrong angle.

 

[BrianWade4]

That half and half scarf is criminal. They are RIVALS for goodness sake.

I was also disgusted when I saw this

Can you imagine someone wearing a Brighton / Palace scarf

 

[Worried Man Blues]

No, no no no, no no no no, etc

P.s was gonna start a thread on kurt nogan if u remember him ? However my mind is gone after drivin frm Watford .[/QUOTE]

 

[Elvis]

P.s

The only reason I remember Kurt was the hat trick at the turf , mid 90's, ur strip looked like Hamas in pyjamas . ��.
Whatever happened to him , tipped for great things, signed for us, disappeared?

With a bit of kerb crawling in between ?

Someone once posted on here that he was a painter and decorator down in Wales.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Dream on, we already have 25000ish season ticket holders in a 31000 capacity ground which is regularly sold out so where are you going to seat these "new" plastic fans when the opposition will normally take every seat they can get.

You really are a bit of a numpty with your 1970's attitude towards football and the garbage it makes you spout In your anti 2017 Albion comments.

The biggest worry is the Chelsea/Arsenal/United fans who are Albion season ticket holders turning up to watch their number one team in the home stands. That will probably result in the rucks you seem to miss so much on occasions, best get a season ticket, just in case, eh?

You seen the amount of Chinese people at the Amex who have no idea about the football and spend their time taking pictures ad selfies....when we get to the top division, I think with ticket touts and ticket companies block booking seats, we will find more of this....especially when we play the bigger clubs.

 

[Icy Gull]

You seen the amount of Chinese people at the Amex who have no idea about the football and spend their time taking pictures ad selfies....when we get to the top division, I think with ticket touts and ticket companies block booking seats, we will find more of this....especially when we play the bigger clubs.

Got to be honest I haven't seen a single Chinese/Japanese/ S Korean at the Amex on an Albion match day, not that I have been looking. I will now

 

[sparkie]

You seen the amount of Chinese people at the Amex who have no idea about the football and spend their time taking pictures ad selfies....when we get to the top division, I think with ticket touts and ticket companies block booking seats, we will find more of this....especially when we play the bigger clubs.

Seen none whatsoever. Ever. Maybe they don't come up to WSU ?

 

[Scotchegg]

I was watching the game at work and the commentator made me chuckle. When the camera panned onto the banner guy he straight said "I have to say, that fan is an idiot."

 

[Dave the OAP]

Got to be honest I haven't seen a single Chinese/Japanese/ S Korean at the Amex on an Albion match day, not that I have been looking. I will now

The leeds game, outside the ground there was a group of about 30 odd who were being given tickets, presumably bought by a tour company as the guy giving out the tickets had a very smart blazer and badge on it.

 

[Mungo_Jerry]

half and half scarves are never acceptable

Back in September I got given 2 free tickets through a colleague for Chelsea V Lpool. I took my 11 year old lad and he bought a half and half scarf for a tenner on the way in. We were genuine neutrals, really didn't give a **** who won and enjoyed a cracking atmosphere on a Friday night as Henderson scored a screamer and Lpool tore Chelsea a new one - all on somebody else's dollar.

I couldn't imagine buying one myself or letting my son do it if we were watching the Albion but sure in this circumstance it's acceptable.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Brighton will soon join that world and our own local plastic prem fans will be out in force

this ALL DAY LONG , get used to it folks
regards
DR

 

[Return of the Rev]

So you think we'll get through the playoffs, finally, this season?

Not this season i'm afraid but soon We will lose to Reading in the playoff legs

 

[BNthree]

You seen the amount of Chinese people at the Amex who have no idea about the football and spend their time taking pictures ad selfies....when we get to the top division, I think with ticket touts and ticket companies block booking seats, we will find more of this....especially when we play the bigger clubs.

About 1/3 of the students at Sussex Uni are Chinese/SE Asian and the club often does ticket deals for the students union. There's a good chance that accounts for it. Not seen that many at the Amex myself though.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Not this season i'm afraid but soon We will lose to Reading in the playoff legs

Reading? Nah! They will finish second. Huddersfield, innit?

 

[Mr Bridger]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Brighton will soon join that world and our own local plastic prem fans will be out in force

The only spare seats are in the south west corner. Happy for them to sit there . . . .

 

[Buzzer]

Reading? Nah! They will finish second. Huddersfield, innit?

I'd love to see one of the old giants like Huddersfield or Preston NE in the PL (just not at our expense). A whole load of fans would learn who Herbert Chapman and Tom Finney were and be reminded that football didn't start in 1992.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd love to see one of the old giants like Huddersfield or Preston NE in the PL (just not at our expense). A whole load of fans would learn who Herbert Chapman and Tom Finney were and be reminded that football didn't start in 1992.

This. Preston for me. Been a long time and several near misses.

 

[itszamora]

"boohoo we're only going to finish 4th in one of the best leagues in the world and we've only got a few world class players that I get to see every week and we're not going to get very far in the champions league boohoo"

I take your point, but supporting a team is all about seeing it progress and try and win things, isn't it? I can understand their frustration, particularly given their sky-high ticket prices, at the team seemingly never progressing beyond where they currently are and always having the same issue around mental strength.

 

[Shuggie]

Get a grip fellas …

I have been to countless games as a neutral here and abroad over the years. I am a football tourist.

As teenagers in the late 60s/early 70s, me and some of the blokes at school would go to any Div 1 game in London that took our fancy when the mighty seagulls were playing in some far-flung northern outpost. The superstars never came to Brighton. We only ever saw edited highlights of a couple of games a week on Match of the Day and The Big Match. We ached to see the heroes in the flesh. Every season we picked out 6 or 7 London games and, judging by this thread, became football tourists.

• Dirty Leeds in town? F me, that was always a treat: Jones, Clarke, Lorimer, Eddie Grey, that little basjard Bremner, Norman Hunter and Jackie Charlton
• The WHU school of football ... Bonds, Moore, Redknapp (the same), Hurst & Peters
• Spurs home games were great - Greaves (if sober), McKay, Chivers, Gilzean, Nice one Cyril, Perryman, Mike England, even Mr Mullery.
• Man Utd playing in London was always good fun. Can anyone who was around at the time ever forget the visceral fear triggered by the rumble of 50 pairs of Doc Martens on a concrete terrace? Charlton, Law, Best in their pomp were worth the risk to life and limb
• Arsenal double winners - Graham, Stroller, Radford, Charlie George, McLintock, Geordie Armstrong, Sammy Nelson, Ray Kennedy, Peter Storey, Bob Wilson
• Red and Blue halves of Merseyside ... too many to mention
• Man City ... Bell, Lee, Summerbee, Corrigan
• Derby ... nasty little Clough team but some mighty players

Later, at University, a bunch of us from all over the country would escort The Scouser, The Geordie, The Brummie etc to see his team in London. We often went to Wembley for the England games, not only to support the team but to be enthralled by Cruyff, Muller and those bloody Italians we could never seem to score against.

Thus it ever was … Spurs at home to no one in particular = 36,000 on a Saturday. Three days later v Liverpool in League Cup round 4, gates shut half an hour before kick-off with 50,000+ in the ground and a few thousand locked out. Arsenal v no one in particular = 36,000 on a Saturday. FA Cup 6th round replay on a Wednesday afternoon (power strikes – floodlights not allowed) 63,000 and gates shut long before kick-off.

In those days we bought programmes as souvenirs. Apart from the fact that wearing a scarf was dangerous, we couldn't bloody well afford it. We also took our holidays as often as not in this country and China was a communist dictatorship of a billion people, all wearing the same pyjamas. The only way we got to go to these exotic places was by watching Alan Whicker. Times have changed!

As for mobile phones, you want to go to some of these places and see how much of their lives are mediated in this way. Back then a smartphone was science-fiction. Today, smartphone bell-endery is not confined to Johnny Foreigner – just look at all those tedious vloggers and other e-pillocks on YouTube. Times have changed!

What hasn’t changed is that football tourism is thriving - they are just today’s version of what we were doing 40 or 50 years ago.

And relax ...