Wild Park

[Working class pride]

Just a note to some Brighton fans on here calling other fans "Pikeys". Firstly its Travellers and secondly the south coast has a healthy population. Wild Park Travellers community is 20 minutes walk from the new ground in East Brighton. Its therefore a bit daft to be calling other fans Pikeys. As such, cut it out. Ta

 

[Driver8]

Better make sure everything is nailed down at the stadium then.

 

[vegster]

Were the stadium planners aware that there was a team of tarmac layers locally available ? we could have saved a few grand and had a Cash job done.

 

[Questions]

Just a note to some Brighton fans on here calling other fans "Pikeys". Firstly its Travellers and secondly the south coast has a healthy population. Wild Park Travellers community is 20 minutes walk from the new ground in East Brighton. Its therefore a bit daft to be calling other fans Pikeys. As such, cut it out. Ta

Apparently there are gay people living in SE London as well.

 

[Hercules Rockerfeller]

Just a note to some Brighton fans on here calling other fans "Pikeys". Firstly its Travellers and secondly the south coast has a healthy population. Wild Park Travellers community is 20 minutes walk from the new ground in East Brighton. Its therefore a bit daft to be calling other fans Pikeys. As such, cut it out. Ta

You're right. The term Pikey should not be used, as it refers to a group of people who at least did something useful in building roads years ago, whereas now the 'travellers' just rip off old people by poorly tarmacing their drives.

 

[Marc1901]

Do you live in a caravan?

 

[bennibenj]

pointless thread, cant believe i opened and now posted lol

 

[Fur Cough]

Just a note to some Brighton fans on here calling other fans "Pikeys". Firstly its Travellers and secondly the south coast has a healthy population. Wild Park Travellers community is 20 minutes walk from the new ground in East Brighton. Its therefore a bit daft to be calling other fans Pikeys. As such, cut it out. Ta

Thank you for your concern.

I will however continue to refer to these "people" as Pikeys.

 

[Working class pride]

Calling palace fans from surrey, Coulsdon, Bromley Pikeys is like calling Brighton fans from Lewes Pikeys because The Hikers Rest / East Brighton, Newhaven, Whitehawk, Hastings ect ect are not all that. I also remember palace calling Brighton Pikeys. Its even more daft given that we have a Travellers camp 20 minutes walk from the new ground into Brighton

 

[Marc1901]

Calling palace fans from surrey, Coulsdon, Bromley Pikeys is like calling Brighton fans from Lewes Pikeys because The Hikers Rest / East Brighton, Newhaven, Whitehawk, Hastings ect ect are not all that. I also remember palace calling Brighton Pikeys. Its even more daft given that we have a Travellers camp 20 minutes walk from the new ground into Brighton

Well where do you live that SO fancy? Hollingdean, Moulsecoomb?

 

[Working class pride]

The Capital...London - Nice expensive flat thanks. Why?

 

[Marc1901]

The Capital...London - Nice expensive flat thanks. Why?

Saying that those places you said are "not all that", have you even been to those places to say that?

 

[bennibenj]

The Capital...London - Nice expensive flat thanks. Why?

why did you start this thread? for a wind up?

 

[kip]

I hate pikeys both the ones in wild park and the ones from south london

 

[Fur Cough]

The Capital...London - Nice expensive flat thanks. Why?

The fact that there is a pikey camp 20 minutes away is irrelevant. I have a Pikey camp 20 minutes from me and quite often Pikeys will get onto a piece of land withinn walking distance, this does not make me a pikey or anyone else living within walking distance.
I live in a house, it does not have wheels, I use a toilet rather than a hedge, I work and pay tax, Pikeys do not do this.

Therefore they are pikeys.

 

[cannedheat]

Just a note to some Brighton fans on here calling other fans "Pikeys". Firstly its Travellers and secondly the south coast has a healthy population. Wild Park Travellers community is 20 minutes walk from the new ground in East Brighton. Its therefore a bit daft to be calling other fans Pikeys. As such, cut it out. Ta

No, Palace Pikeys, Gillinhgham Pikeys.

 

[Working class pride]

why did you start this thread? for a wind up?

Just to point out that we shouldn't call palace fans pikeys as we have East Brighton next to the new ground, and there is a Travellers camp 20 minutes walk away. Its so daft that its self evident but some kids on here dont seem to have the ability to think up anything else. You just cant call other teams Pikeys when their fans are going to get on a bus and travel past Wild Park on the way to the ground!

 

[TS90]

Most of the pikeys were there when we played Gillingham though. After the game, the numbers reduced. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Gritt23]

And no team are ever REALLY entitled (except, perhaps fans of the current Barca side) to sing "we're by FAR the GREATEST team, the WORLD has EVER seen." but we do.

It's all just a bit of harmless banter.

 

[Alan P]

The text below mentions Isle of Sheppey (near Gillingham) and also refers to petty theft and crime a vagabond and general low fellow. Sounds like Palace as well as Bellotti and co.
They are Pikeys!


Charles Dickens in 1837 writes disparagingly of itinerant pike-keepers[6]

The Oxford English Dictionary traced the earliest use of "pikey" to The Times in August 1838, which referred to strangers who had come to the Isle of Sheppey as "pikey-men".[7] In 1847, J. O. Halliwell in his Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words recorded the use of "pikey" to mean a gypsy.[7] In 1887, W. D. Parish and W. F. Shaw in the Dictionary of Kentish Dialect recorded the use of the word to mean "a turnpike traveller; a vagabond; and so generally a low fellow".[7]

Thomas Acton's Gypsy Politics and Social Change notes John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1887) as similarly stating:

Hotten's dictionary of slang gives pike at as go away and Pikey as a tramp or a Gypsy. He continues a pikey-cart is, in various parts of the country, one of those habitable vehicles suggestive of country life. Possibly the term has some reference to those who continually use the pike or turnpike road.[8]

The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society similarly agrees the term pikey solely applied (negatively) to Gypsies[9][10]

[edit] Contemporary usageThe connotation and linkage of gypsies to petty theft, crime and general low socioeconomic activities is well-entrenched, as the text Understanding Representation states:

"Pikey is one of the negative words associated with gypsies: people who fight and steal equals 'pikeys'. It includes fortune-tellers such as the famous Gypsy Rose Lee..."[11]