OVER THE HILL Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Brighton fans seem to be obsessed by the Saints ! Check out this forum http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?20-The-Big-Board. Every day there seems to be new threads. They are walking away with the league but can't stop worrying about us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Them and Bournemouth have both grown significant chips on their shoulders, God knows why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Bournemouth is understandable as we are their nearest club geographically. Brighton's is just bizarre, I can only assume it's bitterness dating back to 1977 when us and Spurs played out a tedious 0-0 draw on the last day of the season to ensure we both went up, with Brighton the team missing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Gabriel's Halo Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Bournemouth is understandable as we are their nearest club geographically. Brighton's is just bizarre, I can only assume it's bitterness dating back to 1977 when us and Spurs played out a tedious 0-0 draw on the last day of the season to ensure we both went up, with Brighton the team missing out. Correct. This has been confirmed to me more than once this season by some of their fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 If that was the case then it should only be their fans who are at least 40-45 or older who dislike us. I'm pretty sure that if some random club had shafted us before I was about 10-12 years old I wouldn't give a toss. They are just fans of a small club who are not used to any measure of success and have seen us be consistently better than them for several decades. It is rare for them to play clubs who have spent long periods in the top flight and so they are a bit excited about the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 I'm sure we'll just quietly and confidently thump them like we did Bompey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Gabriel's Halo Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 If that was the case then it should only be their fans who are at least 40-45 or older who dislike us. I'm pretty sure that if some random club had shafted us before I was about 10-12 years old I wouldn't give a toss. They are just fans of a small club who are not used to any measure of success and have seen us be consistently better than them for several decades. It is rare for them to play clubs who have spent long periods in the top flight and so they are a bit excited about the whole thing. Nail. Head. Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry the Badger Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 The animosity took me totally by surprise. I lived there when we got relegated from the prem and always wanted them to do well, until the day we were relegated wearing my saints shirt in the pub and I was subjected to abuse from a load of Brighton fans who were all cheering on Man U, it was like wearing a Saints shirt in Pompey, I really wasn't expecting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVER THE HILL Posted 23 March, 2011 Author Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Three Nigel Adkins threads on there today ! They seem to believe everything he says Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clapham Saint Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 A brighton fan in our office looks like he's going to explode every time we talk about football. He went especially mental after Adkins said that every team in this league considers us to be their cup final, insisting that "not to us it isn't we're top of te league". I've tried to explain that it was probably intended as more of a general comment rather than referring to EVERY team but he's not having any of it. I've considered telling him about the "We're Southampton we do what we want" chant but I think he'd actually sh*t his pants in the middle of the office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OttawaSaint Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 2 threads about this, are you lot not getting a bit obsessed about their obsession? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVSaint Posted 23 March, 2011 Share Posted 23 March, 2011 Oh. Dear. They've got the top manager, the league position, the new stadium. They need to find a rivalry and they're complete... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atticus Finch of Maycomb Posted 24 March, 2011 Share Posted 24 March, 2011 Bournemouth is understandable as we are their nearest club geographically. Brighton's is just bizarre, I can only assume it's bitterness dating back to 1977 when us and Spurs played out a tedious 0-0 draw on the last day of the season to ensure we both went up, with Brighton the team missing out. can i come back onto the main board now please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisobee Posted 24 March, 2011 Share Posted 24 March, 2011 Correct. This has been confirmed to me more than once this season by some of their fans. It is one of the main gripes on a current Echo thread though : 1) I doubt any of those griping were there, probably not even born ! 2) We drew twice v Bolton and Spurs the other two promoted teams as well as both games v Brighton, a fair few rigged games that season ! Fact is had Brighton beaten us just once they would have got promoted ! Let us also remember we were only in the position to need a draw thanks to winning a week earlier at Luton, a very late Bally penalty I recall, and drawing at Orient in mid week having been a goal down. I do recall the Spurs came was tedious but what else would you expect? I could be wrong but did we not hit the woodwork in that game ? In any event it is utter nonsense though to be fair I believe most reasonable Brighton fans realise this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 24 March, 2011 Share Posted 24 March, 2011 I think you can add the case that at the time Mullery was playing billy big boots and having a pop at us. i also recall their winger O'sullivan? keep chipping at us. it hardly made us feel warm to them. We did hit the post with Funnels shot. if we had won I think it would have been bedlam as Spurs fans were really fired, remember all the temporary fence ripped up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 24 March, 2011 Share Posted 24 March, 2011 some idiotic Saints fans over there as well it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadeem Hardison Posted 24 March, 2011 Share Posted 24 March, 2011 Bournemouth is understandable as we are their nearest club geographically. Brighton's is just bizarre, I can only assume it's bitterness dating back to 1977 when us and Spurs played out a tedious 0-0 draw on the last day of the season to ensure we both went up, with Brighton the team missing out. Can I come back onto the main board now, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohwhenthesaints Posted 30 March, 2011 Share Posted 30 March, 2011 Only about 6 threads about us/Nigel Adkins this morning http://www.northstandchat.com/forumdisplay.php?20-The-Big-Board. Oh, and another 3 on the next page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 30 March, 2011 Share Posted 30 March, 2011 They have done brilliantly to win 8 on the bounce at this stage, fair play to them. However, they really are coming across as absolute small time. Go and enjoy it guys and guys, stop worring about us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 30 March, 2011 Share Posted 30 March, 2011 It is one of the main gripes on a current Echo thread though : 1) I doubt any of those griping were there, probably not even born ! 2) We drew twice v Bolton and Spurs the other two promoted teams as well as both games v Brighton, a fair few rigged games that season ! Fact is had Brighton beaten us just once they would have got promoted ! Let us also remember we were only in the position to need a draw thanks to winning a week earlier at Luton, a very late Bally penalty I recall, and drawing at Orient in mid week having been a goal down. I do recall the Spurs came was tedious but what else would you expect? I could be wrong but did we not hit the woodwork in that game ? In any event it is utter nonsense though to be fair I believe most reasonable Brighton fans realise this. I wasn't at the game, but i do know that Tony Funnell hit the post. which is a pretty tidy skill if you are trying to not score !! not only that, we could have been champions if we had won. Now the game may have petered ort to a draw, and it may have suited both teams to get a draw, but the intention was not there from the start, of that I am sure. Anyway let bha have their hour of triumph over us. They will have plenty else to keep them out of mischief next season..hopefully we will be there, maybe we will be the first team to win at the spandex or whatever its called. Oh, and just in the cause of balance, bha have plenty of potential to be a big player...back in the 70's they regularly got crowds around 20k at the goldstone..and the atmos in the covered end was pretty good too.It would be nice though, if, after their pretty rubbish years of exile etc, they could win the league with good grace. I do recall the Spurs came was tedious but what else would you expect? I could be wrong but did we not hit the woodwork in that game ? In any event it is utter nonsense though to be fair I believe most reasonable Brighton fans realise this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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