by tmesis »
27 May 2022 21:27
South Coast Royal From Despair To Where? fartdad 
They're the biggest club in Europe, don't you know? Even when they were playing in front of 4,000 people at the Withdean.
I've got nothing against Brighton particularly but their fans have serious delusions of grandeur.
Their beef with Palace about who's the bigger club is quite hilarious though and all seems to hinge around a 3rd Division game in the mid 70s.
Don't get the big dislike for Brighton.
It really just stems from their fans' attitude in 2002, when both clubs were pushing for promotion.
Losing The Goldstone seemed to give their fans a weird sense of very rose-tinted spectacles of what games were like there most weeks. Rather than being home to about 8000 in the second tier, you'd have thought they were getting 26,000 every week. Lots of talk about how the tiny Madejski wouldn't be anywhere near big enough for them etc.
Of course, when you had people gaining most of their views of other clubs' fans from cesspits like Rivals.net, antogonism is hardly surprising.
Personally I don't get the hate for Leeds. There's nothing loveable about the club, but they're just another biggish northern big club of no significance to Reading.
