FA Cup Semi Final draw - Brighton

bladdered said:
Really enjoyed yesterday. Great turnout and good atmosphere. Lots of kids there and I hope they can tickets for the final. Assume all the corporate twats will be milking up tickets tho I'm afraid.
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Indeed. I'm one of those 'corporate twats'. I took ten tickets for the game on Saturday (and attended). I've also done the vast majority of away games and half of the European away games. I've been going since 1969 and I pay a hell of a lot of money, season in, season out for the tickets in Joe's. Local lad, Christened at St Mark's Church West Gorton before it was demolished in the '70s and I whilst I have match going mates who are more fervent than myself, I count myself as a 'proper' fan. The trouble with broad sweeping statements is that they are usually bollocks. In the meantime, I will be taking my ticket entitlement for the Final, as I will for Palace, Burnley, Brighton and, fingers crossed, the Champions League Final - if that's OK of course.
 
Hung said:
Indeed. I'm one of those 'corporate twats'. I took ten tickets for the game on Saturday (and attended). I've also done the vast majority of away games and half of the European away games. I've been going since 1969 and I pay a hell of a lot of money, season in, season out for the tickets in Joe's. Local lad, Christened at St Mark's Church West Gorton before it was demolished in the '70s and I whilst I have match going mates who are more fervent than myself, I count myself as a 'proper' fan. The trouble with broad sweeping statements is that they are usually bollocks. In the meantime, I will be taking my ticket entitlement for the Final, as I will for Palace, Burnley, Brighton and, fingers crossed, the Champions League Final - if that's OK of course.
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But were you at York away ;)
 
Hung said:
Indeed. I'm one of those 'corporate twats'. I took ten tickets for the game on Saturday (and attended). I've also done the vast majority of away games and half of the European away games. I've been going since 1969 and I pay a hell of a lot of money, season in, season out for the tickets in Joe's. Local lad, Christened at St Mark's Church West Gorton before it was demolished in the '70s and I whilst I have match going mates who are more fervent than myself, I count myself as a 'proper' fan. The trouble with broad sweeping statements is that they are usually bollocks. In the meantime, I will be taking my ticket entitlement for the Final, as I will for Palace, Burnley, Brighton and, fingers crossed, the Champions League Final - if that's OK of course.
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Not taking an allocation for the derby ;-)
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Went on one of the Brighton forums and they have a poll which they want the dippers to win the league over us

Apparently we are plastic fans with no history

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?371746-Who-do-you-want-to-win-the-Premier-League

One goes onto say he actually stood on the kop for 7 years when in exile!!!
https://www.northstandchat.com/member.php?5050-CliveWalkerWingWizard
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Fantastic, what a time to be a blue. Being called plastics by Brighton is truly an honour. Just wish we had a history like the mighty Hove Albion.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Went on one of the Brighton forums and they have a poll which they want the dippers to win the league over us

Apparently we are plastic fans with no history

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?371746-Who-do-you-want-to-win-the-Premier-League

One goes onto say he actually stood on the kop for 7 years when in exile!!!
https://www.northstandchat.com/member.php?5050-CliveWalkerWingWizard
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Yep, no bias there eh?!!

Weird thread that. Apparently much of the negativity is based on the behaviour of our fans on Saturday. Now I'm not saying every City fan was impeccably behaved because that's bollocks but by and large, I got the impression that both sets of fans mingled freely and one thing about us is that most of us remember exactly where we've come from. Anyway, since coming across that thread last night I've found another on there which is a proper eye-opener and offers up a very much different view: https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?371753-Idiot-who-threw-the-bottle

Story after story of Brighton fans behaving like utter bellends towards their own and a fair few of them picking on innocent City fans too. I'll add that I drank with Brighton fans before the game both inside and outside The Globe and there was no trouble whatsoever
 
You get 70000 people in one place and you’re statistically guaranteed to have murderers and rapists amongst them so the fact that there were a few boisterous slightly aggressive types knocking about surely wouldn’t surprise anyone or cloud the judgement of one set of fans towards the others
 
Thomas Hearns said:
You get 70000 people in one place and you’re statistically guaranteed to have murderers and rapists amongst them so the fact that there were a few boisterous slightly aggressive types knocking about surely wouldn’t surprise anyone or cloud the judgement of one set of fans towards the others
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I don't disagree. I was just surprised to read so many stories on a Brighton forum of Brighton fans not exactly covering themselves in glory towards their own and ours. The odd one, fair enough, but far more instances than I expected, especially as I interacted with a load of theirs on the day and never felt threatened
 
M18CTID said:
I don't disagree. I was just surprised to read so many stories on a Brighton forum of Brighton fans not exactly covering themselves in glory towards their own and ours. The odd one, fair enough, but far more instances than I expected, especially as I interacted with a load of theirs on the day and never felt threatened
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Well, they took more to Wembley than their ground's capacity, so even if every single season ticket holder went, there'd still be several thousand more who are there for the occasion and don't go to games regularly. So it's perhaps not so surprising that there were quite a lot who aren't hardcore fans and who went for a big day out.

Personally I'm with you - I thought they were fine. There was one minor scuffle I saw, but it's hardly that unusual, and the police were there quickly to metaphorically slap them round the head and calm them down.
 
Interesting reading their fan's point of view. It is similar to ours after some Wembley games, pissed/coked up idiots causing trouble.

I liked this one, I wonder who the huge City fan was lol?

" Same, saw a group of lads I recognise from the NS trying to kick off trouble with city fans outside. When they got what they wanted, a huge city fan came charging towards them and they bottled it big time."
 
paulchapo said:
Interesting reading their fan's point of view. It is similar to ours after some Wembley games, pissed/coked up idiots causing trouble.

I liked this one, I wonder who the huge City fan was lol?

" Same, saw a group of lads I recognise from the NS trying to kick off trouble with city fans outside. When they got what they wanted, a huge city fan came charging towards them and they bottled it big time."
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Eddie Large.
 
Henkeman said:
Well, they took more to Wembley than their ground's capacity, so even if every single season ticket holder went, there'd still be several thousand more who are there for the occasion and don't go to games regularly. So it's perhaps not so surprising that there were quite a lot who aren't hardcore fans and who went for a big day out.

Personally I'm with you - I thought they were fine. There was one minor scuffle I saw, but it's hardly that unusual, and the police were there quickly to metaphorically slap them round the head and calm them down.
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Have seen a few of these scuffles over the years but the Met Police are used to policing football and don’t tend to stand for any shit.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Same with Gillingham at Wembley......where did all them fans come from?
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Always been that way - the trick for any club is to try and keep some of them as a result. I used to go and watch my local team a lot, and they'd get passable enough crowds of about 400. Then they got to the FA Vase semi-final and 2,500 turned up!
 
mancityvstoke said:
Same with Gillingham at Wembley......where did all them fans come from?
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Top be fair, Brighton average around 30,000 a game since they moved to the new stadium so most of those who were there on Saturday will be their regular match-going fans. Gillingham, on the other hand, were averaging something like 8000 a game when we played them at Wembley, yet they sold about 34,000 tickets.
 
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M18CTID said:
Top be fair, Brighton average around 30,000 a game since they moved to the new stadium so most of those who were there on Saturday will be their regular match-going fans. Gillingham, on the other hand, were averaging something like 8000 a game when we played them at Wembley, yet they sold something like 34,000 tickets.
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Ironically enough, a lot of those who put up with the Withdean horror regard the others as JCLs!
 
M18CTID said:
Yep, no bias there eh?!!

Weird thread that. Apparently much of the negativity is based on the behaviour of our fans on Saturday. Now I'm not saying every City fan was impeccably behaved because that's bollocks but by and large, I got the impression that both sets of fans mingled freely and one thing about us is that most of us remember exactly where we've come from. Anyway, since coming across that thread last night I've found another on there which is a proper eye-opener and offers up a very much different view: https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?371753-Idiot-who-threw-the-bottle

Story after story of Brighton fans behaving like utter bellends towards their own and a fair few of them picking on innocent City fans too. I'll add that I drank with Brighton fans before the game both inside and outside The Globe and there was no trouble whatsoever
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Love this story from that site:
Saw a group of lads I recognise from the NS trying to kick off trouble with city fans outside. When they got what they wanted, a huge city fan came charging towards them and they bottled it big time.

As for trouble in wembley itself, I didn't see any. But I didn't go for the cheap seats which is where you'd find most of the day trippers.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
Went on one of the Brighton forums and they have a poll which they want the dippers to win the league over us

Apparently we are plastic fans with no history

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?371746-Who-do-you-want-to-win-the-Premier-League

One goes onto say he actually stood on the kop for 7 years when in exile!!!
https://www.northstandchat.com/member.php?5050-CliveWalkerWingWizard
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There was a group of them going back to the tube doing that Albion chant and a few City gave it Championees back. One of them about thirty year old started singing Liverpoool. I growled at him and he literally hid behind his mate :)
 
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