Where's The Unlikeliest Place You've Seen A Brighton Top?

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smudge

Up the Albion!
Jul 8, 2003
7,376
On the ocean wave
Boxing Day, on the beach at Cozumel, Mexico.
 

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Robot Chicken

Seriously?
Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
I saw a guy wearing an Albion shirt when I was on the tour of the Nou Camp. Turns out he was from Leicester.
 




Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,324
Living In a Box
Furthest place is Tenerife for seeing a Brighton shirt for me.
 




Dandyman

In London village.
At the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Just towards the back.

If you look carefully at paintings of William of Orange landing at Brixham in 1688, there's clearly a very young FDM in background as well.
 


Barry Izbak

U.T.A.
Dec 7, 2005
7,422
Lancing By Sea
Johnny Crumplin Football Genius tee shirt
Busch Stadium St Louis 1989
 


A Brighton shirt, but not an Albion one - in a backstreet market in Rio De Janeiro
(Avenida Nossa Senhora De Copacabana, for anyone who might be familiar with Rio). It showed a silhouette of The Royal Pavilion - and the shopkeepers were trying to tell me it was a picture from some Arabic country! (can't recall where they claimed it was). Despite my telling them it was "Brighton,... Ingalaterra", they kept wafting aside my proclamations, in favour of their story.
 












Slightly different (not a top but a flag);
At the opening match for England in the 1998 World Cup finals, vs Tunisia in Marseilles, I was in a corner of the stadium and looking with amazement at the hundreds of England flags with various towns on them.
My school mate and I had met up (from Australia and USA respectively) for the events in France.
Anyway, we read all these names, "Kettering", "Leatherhead", "Walsall" etc etc, and just as we were saying "can't see a Brighton section" - a flag unfurled about 6 feet in front of us; "BRIGHTON".
Coincidence of large proportions (esp. as our tickets went to my mate's Brisbane address), and we were in exactly the right section of the stadium.

Incidentally, the ticket allocations SHOULD have meant about a third of the stadium to English fans, but we had two-thirds of the place by my reckoning.

The only trouble for the whole match was on the beach during the game, when we went into a two-goal lead the local Arabic populace (Morrocans, mostly I believe) started throwing bottles and stones at the English.
Typical, we bring the absolute best support to an international match, and a bunch of sore losers and sand-monkeys get "Trouble at England Match" headlines.
 


Marc

New member
Jul 6, 2003
25,267
Brands Hatch, dont know why but I found it very strange!
 


Statto

007
Nov 11, 2005
4,317
Graceland Memphis
Was at Real mallorca V Real Betis in 2005, And I was wearing the famous shirt, when I noticed a guy about 5 rows in front of me with an albion bage on his shirt. Needles to say I gave it the famous "Seeeeeeaaaaaagulls". The whole section of the ground that we were in was full of English/British. The ticket touts must have targeted that section. Funnily enough Someone in the seat next to me was from Hove! It was the final game of the spanish season in late may. Betis neaded a point to get into the Champions league and Mallorca neaded a point to stay up. So the Final scoreline of 1-1 suted both teams.
 
















The Face

H Block
Jan 24, 2007
699
BN2
Sky Dome, Toronto watching the Blue Jays.

Quickly glance up at the big screen and there's some bloke in the stripes on there.
 


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