Brighton and Reading fans............

[Green]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

[Forbury Lion]

I guess perhaps Reading and Brighton fans perceive each other to be wildly different when it comes to key factors such as which is best - red/blue bounty bars, The Rock/Con Air etc

[Pepe the Horseman]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

True. Don't know why he's being so ruud.

[CountryRoyal]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

True. Don't know why he's being so ruud.

Don't he know we're human toooo...

[Royality creeps In]

I always find it funny when people refer to us as a middle class club in a middle class town and then others say "Reading's a complete dump" or a "shit hole"... granted there's only a few I've heard on either side say this and it's just comments with nothing to back it up.

Are we more "middle class" than Brighton? Or are they all too hip and trendy to be put into a category like that. Where does Swindon fit in to that, or Oxford, Watford, Southampton, Bournemouth, etc...

It's all just sh1te that as Gullet says, a few knobbers online say

In descending order of least shitty to most shitty I would say;

Oxford
Brighton
Reading
Bournemouth
Watford
Southampton
Swindon

I've only been to Oxford a few times but didn't like it, been to Brighton once for football so can't really comment.

Bournemouth I've been to a few times for a weekend break and it's OK, been a long time since I've been there so hard to remember clearly.

Southampton, Watford, Swindon - only been for football so can't comment. I work with a girl from Swindon who is annoying, so for that reason I don't like it

The centre of Oxford is beautiful.
The rest is a dump!

Some of the estates are like Beruit. Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys and Barton for starters.

[Sutekh]

In descending order of least shitty to most shitty I would say;

Oxford
Brighton
Reading
Bournemouth
Watford
Southampton
Swindon

I've only been to Oxford a few times but didn't like it, been to Brighton once for football so can't really comment.

Bournemouth I've been to a few times for a weekend break and it's OK, been a long time since I've been there so hard to remember clearly.

Southampton, Watford, Swindon - only been for football so can't comment. I work with a girl from Swindon who is annoying, so for that reason I don't like it

The centre of Oxford is beautiful.
The rest is a dump!

Some of the estates are like Beruit. Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys and Barton for starters.

Most of the centre of Oxford is horrible. Only the bit further away from the town centre is attractive. Cambridge is much more what you would expect by way of a university town.

[Gullet]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

Sorry, no big deal. I live in Chichester. Brighton fan all my life and spent three years in Reading as a student in the 80s.

Do I pass the test?

[Pepe the Horseman]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

Sorry, no big deal. I live in Chichester. Brighton fan all my life and spent three years in Reading as a student in the 80s.

Do I pass the test?

Is Thursdays still there?

[floyd__streete]

I obviously can't be bothered to read North Stand Camp or whatever their miserable equivalent to this is, I can barely be bothered reading the contemptible opinions of Reading fans never mind Brighton supporters. I did see one or two comments from them on Twitter though, bitchy bunch of Queens aren't they.

[Gullet]

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

Sorry, no big deal. I live in Chichester. Brighton fan all my life and spent three years in Reading as a student in the 80s.

Do I pass the test?

Is Thursdays still there?

Bloody hell! No one should admit to having been there! No, it closed down about 12 months ago

[Hendo]

Sorry, no big deal. I live in Chichester. Brighton fan all my life and spent three years in Reading as a student in the 80s.

Do I pass the test?

Is Thursdays still there?

Bloody hell! No one should admit to having been there! No, it closed down about 12 months ago

Hopefully on a Thursday, otherwise what a waste.

[JIM]

I dont hate BRIGHTON, I hate the GERMANS , they bombed our chippy ,

[tmesis]

Hard to think other fans look down on us as 'upstarts' when we have a longer history than every single one of them !

Wrong kind of history, I'm afraid.

Football fans are a traditional and nostalgic bunch, and we seem to get a little misty-eyed about clubs that were successful in the past - that's what history is in our book.

It's Blackpool getting to the top flight. It's Accrington Stanley "returning" to the league*.

Being historically noteworthy makes those clubs somehow more interesting, their fans somehow viewed as "true" fans compared to fans of clubs who've grown more recently.

Wigan and Blackpool saw pretty much the same rise in crowds when rising from the 4th tier to the first, yet only Wigan's fans got labelled bandwagon jumpers who'll be back to supporting Liverpool/Everton/Man Utd etc when Wigan go down.

It's the same with us. There are even fans here who believe our hardcore support is exactly the same as the Elm Park days, as if nearly twenty years of vastly improved crowds are some kind of temporary blip.


* they get extra credit for being founder members of the league, even though they weren't.

[Jackson Corner]

In descending order of least shitty to most shitty I would say;

Oxford
Brighton
Reading
Bournemouth
Watford
Southampton
Swindon

I've only been to Oxford a few times but didn't like it, been to Brighton once for football so can't really comment.

Bournemouth I've been to a few times for a weekend break and it's OK, been a long time since I've been there so hard to remember clearly.

Southampton, Watford, Swindon - only been for football so can't comment. I work with a girl from Swindon who is annoying, so for that reason I don't like it

The centre of Oxford is beautiful.
The rest is a dump!

Some of the estates are like Beruit. Rose Hill, Blackbird Leys and Barton for starters.

Cowley for another, Funny Morse never went to a Heroine od on Blabird Leys estate?

[Jackson Corner]

Ooh, good one!

Only if we get an answer, but yeh thought it might help flesh out the man behind the username a bit.

Sorry, no big deal. I live in Chichester. Brighton fan all my life and spent three years in Reading as a student in the 80s.

Do I pass the test?

Chichester? That's dead posh. I went to uni in Brighton in the late 90's when they were playing at Gillingham. I used to read the Argos and think it was only a matter of time before they went under. I didn't meet a single Brighton fan in 3 years down there. Most seemed West Sham or Liverpool. If it hadn't been for Dick Knight who never gave up and those 1000 or so who traveled to Gillingham for home games.
I salute you I wouldn't of done it.

[Maguire]

Didn't it all start in about 2003 / 2004? - they wanted more than the 4,000 ticket allocation we were giving them for some match because they were such a massive club with a long history and we were plastics in a plastic out of town stadium etc. etc. blah blah blah.

Either way, irrational dislikes are as much a part of football as irrational likes. And I really dislike the sh1t that spread all over their message boards every time we play them. So I enjoy disliking BHA the way I enjoy liking Reading.

Yep there was a LOT of bitching about only getting 4000 tickets to that game (ie. the entire South Stand) along with the associated MASSIVE boasts.

Funny thing was a year later when they weren't doing so well they only brought about 1500 to the same fixture. Funny that .

[handbags_harris]

Opening day 2004/05, 3-2 win. They'd just been promoted and got p*ssy with us because of the size of the South Stand. And then they only brought 3k.

Seem to remember an evening game in 02/03 where they brought less than 1k as well.

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

Opening day 2004/05, 3-2 win. They'd just been promoted and got p*ssy with us because of the size of the South Stand. And then they only brought 3k.

Handbags - one of the best moments as a Reading fan was going to the shitehole that was the Goldstone the previous season and Scotty Taylor scoring a sublime goal in a 1-0 win..... the "We'll be top at 5 o'clock" was mint.

[Jagermesiter1871]

How can they moan about shitty away capacities when they played for several seasons at an athletics track where the away stand was made of black sacks and MDF?

[Mr Optimist]

Opening day 2004/05, 3-2 win. They'd just been promoted and got p*ssy with us because of the size of the South Stand. And then they only brought 3k.

Handbags - one of the best moments as a Reading fan was going to the shitehole that was the Goldstone the previous season and Scotty Taylor scoring a sublime goal in a 1-0 win..... the "We'll be top at 5 o'clock" was mint.

I was there for that one. Just looked up the attendance figure, 6,309 apparently, which included around 1500 away fans too. Was also there for our 1-0 win the season before but can't remember who scored in the 92-93 game, was it Archie or Jimmy probably. Remember a bit of an old school ruck in the pub near the station too. We played some good football at that time.