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This has recently been bounced on Brightons Northstand chat....

how ironic !!

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?147847-Swindon-Fan-Here

last pages make good reading

In football these kind of things do tend up more often than not to bite you in the ass eventually.

Probably shouldn't have used the word 'ass'. Might get a horde of Brighton fans on here now!

Must have been feeling pretty bitter to have remembered and then bumped that thread after two years, no? Think someone must've hit a nerve.

Good luck to 'em, i've got no ill feelings toward them, I think any anomisity from our side is probably just jealousy. Oh to be looking forward to Championship football in a brand spanking new stadium

swings and roundabouts is what football is all about, if you dish it out you have to take it on the chin, we will be back, fucks sake even oxford at now back at our level!

I thought some of the animosity was down to the reaction of Brighton fans after the play-off at their place.

No, it's about boots, nets and balls. Think you've confused football with children's play parks, they're all about swings and roundabouts. And slides.

Maybe, but we'd have been exactly the same if that was us, like Mexico Red said, it's all swings and roundabouts, if you dish it out, you have to take it.

Fair play, I'd be gloating all the same if the roles were reversed. 

I've actually got nothing against them despite the play-offs (still bitter) think it stems from sympathy over their stadium situation.

Best of luck to them in the Championship, think they could do well.

I don't begrudge Brighton at all. The majority of the poster on FF are a great bunch.

There obviously a club on the up, new stadium, almost certain to go up as champions, have some really good players, a good manager. With the shit they've had to put up with over the last years regarding the Withdean etc. I wish them all the best.

Oh yeah, and let this be a lesson to all the trolls that go on other forums and chat shit, it WILL always come back to haunt you.

there was a hell of a lot of animosity towards us at that play off game, compare that to charlton match last year and we can hold the moral high ground there, personally i didnt particularly like being spat upon and pushed about by a dozen fellas under that bridge by withdean after that match, as if fucking pneumonia wasnt enough. However the Brighton fans i know down here are a decent bunch and were genuinally appalled when they heard not only about that but also about the fucking despicable behaviour of their players waving cash at our protests as we let their team coach through during the dark days of Diamandis' reign. Of all clubs to be that shoddy, maybe their players should have had a look at Albions dark past and a certain cunt called belotti.

When was this Mexico?

I fucking hate brighton. That is all

Bet that was Leon Knight, the cunt.

He wont reply to my abuse anymore. *sobs*

was pre leon knight :) It was on one of those back of arkells protests, all the protesters moved out of the way to let the brighton team coach through as we had no bone to pick with them. Players on the coach were waving wads of cash at us giving the bird, police did a good job as a few stones were lobbed and it could have turned very nasty.

Think they just had a a well dodgy group of players that year, wasnt there word of it kicking off at crewe the same season when the brighton players were laughing through some minute silence or have i just made that up?

I have seen Swindon about 7-8 times this year and although They have played badly on many occasions, I really hope they dont go down...

As a Brighton fan living in Swindon I would like to see better football when I am not at Falmer..

Dont give up..

Football is 90% banter.......can the poster please explain why they HATE Brighton?

Im not sure about that....I think are  making it up!!!


BUT just before Virgo scored the equaliser in the play off semi final.....one of your guys whispered in his ear." I will send you a text from the Millenium gay boy""  minute later he scored..

Again just on pitch banter...


PS get rid of HART he is not a full time manager.

Did this come from adam virgo?

Yes it did..

He is now at Yeovil......was not even on the subs bench when we played there in Feb,

i look at brighton with envy.
they have got the whole thing spot on this season.
a new ground waiting to move into coupled with their inevitable promotion into the championship.i'm jealous.
they took our skipper without a whimper from our board.and our team which were banging on the championship door has been allowed to become one of the poorest squads in living memory.
fair play to brighton i say.

^this

Their future looks pretty good, ours doesnt, thats football.  Things could be reversed in 5 years but it must be pretty dam good being a Brighton fan right now.

Their only worry is holding onto to Gus, i imagine some pretty decent clubs will be sniffing around him in the summer.

This is one of the most depressing threads in recent memory.  However, it also goes to show how quickly things can take a turn for the better.

Step 1: we need out of League 2.  (And yes, I have given up on avoiding the drop this season.  Sorry.)
Step 2: we need to push on like Brighton have this season.  Despite this season's cock ups, I still think that we're relatively well placed (fanbase, solvency, development potential) to move on to the next level...but only if lessons have been learned on the football side.  Naievity has cost us.

Play Off Semi Final - you got fucking battered both legs, best team lost. I know you dont always get what you deserve in football but it would have been unjust if we'd won 4-0 over all.

Then, extra time Brighton losing, fans leaving. Virgo scores, fans run back in. Win on penalties. Fans on the pitch, to celebrate with the players? no to celebrate with their own fans, no? to come over and celebrate infront of the soaking wet Swindon fans and completely ignore their players that just won, hell yeah - complete lack of decency and class.

The fans that had already left the game and came back in, gloating, not interest in anything other than getting in our faces.

Then the fact that all the Brighton fans on various message boards have said it never happened, I saw it with my own eyes! it fucking happened.

Didnt see us running over to the Charlton fans last year did you? nope.

Yes I'm still bitter and I hate Brighton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPeN0u_LbBA


I will check the DVD and get back on Thursday,.I will even upload the relevant bit to youtube..you might be made to eat your words......but you just sound like a sore loser....you might have noticed there was/is no roof over the Brighton fans either.......it is also a "tradition" to gather on the running track. it is NOT walking out the ground.

Watch carefully.....the Brighton players are at the East end of the ground (in front of Swindon fans) that is where the penalites were taken.

Get over it, it happened.....

The goading did happen, no doubt about that.  But it's possible that the memory of it has been amplified over time.  When you're soaking wet and pissed off, a few pricks dancing on the pitch and giving it the big 'un probably gets remembered as a few hundred over time.

I'm over it now, by the way.  (You redeemed yourselves by beating Bristol in the final.)

I'm not especially bitter and don't hold a grudge against Brighton fans for the play-offs (although the gobshite players on the coach in the incident Mex refers to can all fucking do one), but I do quite clearly remember a load of your fans running over to us after the pens were taken, completely ignoring the players to stand right in front of us and goad us, complete with universal "offering out" hand gestures. You may or may not have seen it, and it was probably a minority, but it was a sizeable group and it did happen.

See there we go again from the gayers

blah blah blah didnt happen blah blah blah

The hundreds of people running back in clearly showed they left. Dont tell me your fans didnt goad us because I was there watching it.

You can fuck off now.

I was there that night and things like that happen. It's football, people get over excited, feel bigger than what they are. However I don't think you can label all Brighton fans with being arseholes, it was a few fuckwits who got over excited and came over to us. The overall feeling after the game was just one of pure dissapointment and I can understand that feeling coupled with the fact that Brighton fans coming over and taunting us would make our fans furious.

However DV makes a good point, we battered them over the two legs. The first leg at the CG we dominated throughout and the second leg we played brilliantly only for Virgo to get a run on Mooney at the death. Gutted.

That maybe so but the records show a 0-1 win at the CG and a win on penalties at Withdean.....and so on.

anyway just get behind your team against Exeter tonight...

Im off to Daggers now hopefully to do you lot a favour..

He is right about one thing DV. You do need to get over it

Unless you're planning to take them into admin while you're there, I'm not sure you or your team are of much use to us.

Yeah. Move on DV. It was ages ago.

Never.

Some friends and I made wanker signs to the Leicester fans after we beat them at Wembley. Admittedly, we were rather young at the time and probably not entirely sure of what we were doing.

I feel as though I have forever tarnished the reputation of the club.

The thing is, if we'd beaten Charlton at home in the 2nd leg, instead of being away, does anyone seriously think that our own moronic minority wouldn't have made a bee-line to the Stratton Bank to goad the away fans?

Dickheads follow every club, including ours.

It's probably a good thing that you left the country really. Your face is still probably on a dartboard in the Leicester area.

You're not welcome here anymore. Banned.

True to the '80% bollocks' TEF strapline I do feel duty bound to take this thread off at a tangent and inform everyone that there used to be a framed and mounted photograph of the 1992-93 Leicester City squad hanging behind the bar of the Green Baize (?) Snooker Club in Park South.  The caption underneath read something like 'Leicester City FC, Play Off Winners, Barclays League Division One.'  Maybe it's still there?  (I've not been back for over 15 years.)

Barclays had obviously printed a photo for both teams, with the Leicester version finding its way back to the Green Baize.  Loved that.

I don't feel as depressed now.

will ask my father in law he is always in there :pint:

Nothing to do with me. But dont mind fans having a go at Brighton.  

Brighton = lucky bunch of wankers who will get their comeuppance.

When I was 16 I made wankers signs at a Leicster fan while I was on a Bus going home after a game,he stopped the Bus and got on a confronted me,I pooed myself  :D

I quoted the wrong post.

The point remains the same,we were all Crispys once ..:o

In response to the op. I do would be my answer

DV - The players tunnel and changing rooms were next to the away end. Obviously the players and management ran/walked towards the tunnel and the crowd went with them. Thats why the fans ended up in front of you and perhaps a few did taunt but the majority were just celebrating. If the players tunnel was the other end of the ground, there would have been no Brighton fans anywhere near you. It was unfortunate but get over it, you go well OTT about it.

Bullshit, there was a group of at least 100 who were not in the least concerned with players/management but who charged straight at Town fans, goading and gesticulating. It was ages ago, it didn't matter much then and doesn't now but don't try and airbrush history. Some of your fans that night were wankers. And some of ours would have been too had the boot been on the other foot.

Ah yes, winning a play off semi final the first thing the players always do is head straight for the tunnel.

Things you wish you never said...

Telling my Dad "dont be a twat we are too good to go down" after the Leyton Orient League cup game when he said we would go down.

Lucky?  Care to explain?

25 wins in a season lucky?
8 wins in one calender month (march) creating a UK record LUCKY?

13 points clear Lucky?

Dear me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Oh we beat Daggers for u last night...........

Probably got lucky.

Great, well done.....you can fuck off now

I have an unsettling feeling that he's here to stay.

you mean he's so lucky he'll be allowed to stay?