Brighton Fans have a real hatred for Crawley

I read their forum on the train in to work and couldn’t believe the bile directed towards us.

Their fans were an embarrassment last night.

Their team was played off the park at times by little old tinpot Crawley and they couldn’t handle it.

They have some great players but I don’t think they expected to be dragged around as much by our passing game on occasions.

Great night out for us and we should be proud of the players.

I used to have a soft spot for Brighton but it’s increasingly hard. For most of their history, they’ve been a mid or lower league side of very little relevance other than a curious away day by the sea. I’ve been to the Goldstone and the Withdean quite a few times over the years where they did well to get 6-7k watching fans. Suddenly they’ve grown thanks to the lucky money of their owner. A 30k stadium filled with new fans, probably including many whose main loyalty was elsewhere. Trying to give it large with anyone they come across to pretend they’re a big club. No trophies. Not even a domestic cup. Never even won a match at Wembley. Just trying desperately to be noticed. Tragic really. And the way they were celebrating gracelessly last night was embarrassingly pathetic. They can’t win at Wembley but they managed to beat a smaller team who has. Woop woop.

Still absolutely fuming about that tackle, and Crawley fans are gloating about it online.

Scum club with scum players and scum fans. I hope they end up in a situation like we did in the 90s, needing a "Fans United" type movement. And I hope no fans of real clubs lift a finger to help them.

^ This is my personal favourite. It really highlights the pathetic reaction from the Brighton fans. We've been there and done that with the Majeeeds so at least do your research also what quantifies a "real club"? The fact that for many their first reaction to their new signing getting injured is to hope for a club to go out of business is lamentable.

I understand most that are embarrassing Brighton online have only supported the club since 2017 but come on.

Brighton fan view (ignore/mock as required)

Morning all,

I know I don’t represent all Brighton fans but I reckon the majority would agree with the following take on yesterday (even if they’ve not been around as long as me):

Been a season ticket holder for 30 years (goldstone, both Priestfield years, withdean and now Amex). We’ve still been shit for longer than we’ve been good in my time of watching us. It is still a novelty to be good and it is still exciting for me to see our badge on the MOTD credits. The current spending is surreal (and very exciting).

I’ve always quite liked Crawley. The 5-0 at the goldstone was just before I started going regularly (and I was still a kid) so any aggro at that game would have passed me by.

I’d always respected Crawley fans for supporting a lower league (often non league) team when they have Premier league clubs very near to them. Fair play to that.

I remember watching the play off final in the west lower concourse before a home game last season and I remember me and everyone around me were audibly pleased to see Crawley win so I don’t think my slight affection was unusual.

Yeah, yeah, I hear you saying: “shut up bhafc1983, you sanctimonious patronising old git”…. ok, be like that but there is more that we have in common than we don’t. But for the blind luck of having Tony Bloom grow up as a fan, we’d be no higher up the league than Crawley… and most proper Brighton fans know that.

Anyway, I was looking forward to yesterday evening.
I feel like I identify way more with Crawley fans than most Premier League teams. They’ve had a decent start to the season. Let’s see what they’ve got!

… and Crawley played some very decent stuff (albeit against a team of squad players, rather than first choices, who are not used to playing together… but we still had internationals and plenty of premier league experience among them - and still they cost a lot of money to bring in). It was impressive.

I particularly remember a great move where you opened us up on our right side before your lad went for the near post finish and it was saved. You hadn’t come to sit back.

But…. Williams, and other’s, approach of clearly looking to leave something on our players was really disappointing.

He should have been sent off within the first 10 minutes and the number of late challenges was completely unnecessary.

It’s really galling to have the excitement of signing a new player for lots of money (yes, this is all still new to many of us) extinguished by such an unnecessary and bad foul (which inexplicably goes unpunished)…. and then have the protagonist appear to laugh it off.

So forgive us if our goodwill to Crawley for the season has been dampened (“don’t care, you patronising wanker”…. yeah, yeah, like I say, we’ve more in common with you than most of our opposition).

Those on here saying how proud they were of the attacking play - so you should be. Those proud of the “approach” for “not being scared” and roughing Albion up, I think you’ve got it very wrong and you should be able to appreciate why people like me are miffed. It certainly isn’t cos we didn’t like you cutting through our defence with incisive attacking play, so don’t pretend it is.

Anyway, well played for many parts but I can’t help but hope Williams’ career goes downhill fast.

Another long-term Albion fan here and (who has taken-in the occasional Crawley game). We don't hate Crawley; isn't bleedin' obvious that a lot of us are just totally p1ssed-off that the player who we were excited about seeing for the first time is pole-axed by a smirking clogger after 6 minutes. Brilliant, congratulations Crawley for bringing the big-time Charlies down to earth (I've spent most of my Albion days watching 3rd and 4th tier football).
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Also, all this crap about lack of atmosphere last night. Early rounds of the League Cup are an opportunity for those who cant normally get a ticket to see a match at a cheap price; lots of families with kids, foreign tourists, etc. Hard-core Albion fans are spending enough money already on away-days at Everton and Arsenal next Saturday.

Again, the attention seeking “notice me pleeeeaaaase” aspect of modern day Brighton fans is coming out in buckets here. Why people bother registering with another club’s forum just to whinge and whine is beyond me.

It was a good, competitive, feisty encounter, and both clubs have come on leaps and bounds since 1992 when we last played a proper match.

I didn't register on your forum to "pretend to like Crawley"... I registered to counter some of the daft comments I read on here about Brighton and it's fans and our supposed hatred of Crawley. I quite openly said that the reason we are p1ssed-off is the neanderthal assault on Matt O'Riley who we have been looking forward to seeing PLAY FOOTBALL. It's obvious that Crawley's game-plan was to put some "little clumsy" whacks in early. Classy.