Why did you start supporting Brighton?

[Screaming J]

I was born and bred in Sussex and they were 'our' team. My Grandfather used to go regularly and his brother was a season ticket holder in the 1950s. It just 'happened' somehow! First game was at the end of the 68/69 season.

 

[Scotty Mac]

mother took me as asprightly lad of 2 - if i hadn't of supported brighton i probably would have been castrated

 

[Curious Orange]

So supporting the Albion is a CHOICE?

F*ck, I wish I'd known that twenty years ago...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I was taken to a game as an end of season trip for our football team in '91 by Sammy Nelson as his son was a good friend of mine. 0-0 vs Milwall. Then the next game was the sit in game vs Southend.

 

[withdeanwombat]

The aliens dropped me off in the north stand at kick off time on Dec 20th 1958.Brighton scored four,and I was hooked!
































Bloody sods Middlesbro scored 6,though.B**st*rds.

 

[Brovion]

Moved to Lancing aged 8. I was a Chelsea fan, my family were Palace fans so I went to the Goldstone with friends just for something to do if I wasn't seeing a 'proper' game at Stamford Bridge or Selhurst Park.

Like Lord B I just gradually switched to Brighton and by the time of the 1972 (?) promotion season I was pretty much 100% with only residual loyalty to Chelsea. First time I went to Palace as an opposition supporter was in 1974/75 (can't remember the exact year). It was before the rivalry, Brighton won 1-0 and there was hardly an Albion fan there. First time I heard the "ee-ore" chant which annoyed me because Palace had always been the Glaziers.

Didn't know it at the time but it was the last game I would go to with my Dad.

 

[Gwylan]

I was a rugby fan when I was young and didn't get into football until I was nine - it was England winning the World Cup that did it for me. I then wanted to see a live game and my dad said we could go and see Brighton: I was amazed as I hadn't realised that we had a football team.

As my dad worked a lot of Saturdays, I had to wait until January to go, but we finally went. It was a bitterly cold day, Albion were dreadful and were beaten 3-2 by Walsall but I was hooked from then on.

 

[trueblue]

I got one of those cool Bukta shirts in the late 70s and stayed up "late" when my brother was baby-sitting to see them on telly in one of those 5-a-side tournaments Sportsnight used to show.

Strangely, it was a friend of the family who took me to my first "real" match - and I caught the bug big time.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

I was bribed. I was a Leeds supporter living in Sussex at the age of 10, and my Dad said there was no way I was going to see them play, so why didn't I change to a local side.

Then they bought me off with a hat and a scarf.

 

[Beach Hut]

Nearest team to where I lived - simple really

 

[Dandyman]

First went with school friends back in 1976 and ever since have been under the illusion that we always play in front of at least 25000 people,play great football and have an outstandingly talented side...

 

[jakeella]

Moved to Brighton from London in 1977, used to follow Chelsea, started going to the Goldstone in the Wardy era and got hooked.

 

[le fabue]

Used to live in Chichester so was a simple choice between Pompey and Brighton.

All my mates supported Pompey but luckily my old man was a season ticket holder at the Goldstone and used to take me to games from about age 7 in '81.

My first major experience I remember of the Albion was some pre-season triangular tournament against I think Liverpool and Forest, all games played at the Goldstone.

 

[Infernal Optimist]

Drove me Uncle mad to take me when I was about 6.

First game I went to, stood just behind the goal in the North Stand....Fred Binney gets the ball 8 yards out turns, shoots.....
and blazes over the bar (He did that a lot)

Ball hits me straight in the head, knocks me out

Been going most weeks since....must be the brain damage...

 

[Skintagain 1983]

First went with school friends back in 1976 and ever since have been under the illusion that we always play in front of at least 25000 people,play great football and have an outstandingly talented side...

You had Albion supporting school friends in 1976 and they didn't include me? Who were this fictional characters? You were a Spurs fan my friend...

 

[Strike]

Sussex born and bred nearest football league team to me (despite living in Crawley). and the team of Sussex, Crawley born but educated at B.Hill for 9 years which is mostly Brighton, and decided to follow the seagulls have done for about 5 years now, with going to games for about 2 years now.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Iam HOVE BORN AND BRED now living in Brighton never resided outside of BN3 or BN1

 

[Dandyman]

You had Albion supporting school friends in 1976 and they didn't include me? Who were this fictional characters? You were a Spurs fan my friend...

LOL. Don't think we met until 1979, old boy.


First people I went with were Wuang brothers, Harry Rehin, John Godfrey, Nick Ree, etc. Tip toe through the North Stand...

 

[CHAPPERS]

Because of my good old dad.

 

[enigma]

Was the first game I went to.