Brighton Fans have a real hatred for Crawley

Long standing Brighton supporter here. Have several Crawley supporters as friends and have always and still wish them well. I fully appreciate manager approaching this game would be telling players to get stuck in but sorry that tackle which I was close to was so over the top and manager was right in saying should have no place in football. Could easily have ended up as a career ending injury and surprised something is not in place for FA to look at it and give retrospective punishment. I think you will find Brighton supporters have got nothing against Crawley FC but what cheesed them of was the supporters who all but celebrated the tackle from Williams and player going off. Nobody but refs fault that he was not sent off but I have seen very few tackles like that in 30 years of watching football
As a matter of interestI was pleased for Crawley when got into FL . Can you explain why after so many years with such a good catchment area you still only attract 3/3500 crowds

A lot of people in early Crawley migrated from London in the 1950/60s and brought their football allegiances with them - which they passed to the next generation and so on. This probably stuck, because Crawley Town were a long way down the pyramid.
This has probably started to change due to the club's relative success in recent years and a new generation of children - plus because of the extortionate cost of following a Premier League team these days, especially when travel is factored in.
I know several Brighton supporters who live in Crawley sometimes come and watch when Brighton are playing away. I can promise the more agressive posters here that those supporters only have one head each.

I was at the game as well and saw it clearly. It was clearly not over the top. It was a little late, a little clumsy - that is all. Tackles like that happen up and down the country every week. It only looks worse in slow motion but life doesn't happen in slow motion.

We have already had other Brighton supporters registering for this forum to complain - what is your point? Why not air your grievances on your own forum.

It is time to stop this over-reaction and see it for what is was - a late tackle and O'Riley unlucky to be injured.

It is also time to stop the over the top attacks on our player.

We have all seen death threats aimed against him, hopes that he will suffer a life or career ending injury, calls to go to his house and "sort him out". There was also calls for legal action to be taken for assault against him (someone even offered to pay to make this happen), for Crawley to be liquidated as a club - and that is just some of the hyperbole.

He is a young player - it is time for Brighton supporters to back off, calm down and stop the tirade.

SCOTT LINDSEY'S RED ARMY!

Thanks George - this is only a flavour of the content on some of the Brighton forums.

SCOTT LINDSEY'S RED ARMY!

To clarify, because your wording is ambiguous: did someone offer to pay for legal action against Williams (which is their right, although little chance of succeeding IMO), or did someone offer to pay for someone to go and sort Williams out (a breach of several serious laws). If the latter, I think police involvement might be on the cards. The problem is that we can never know the intent or context when someone writes a post. For all we know it might have been someone taking the piss out of some of their own supporters for their OTT reaction.

Yeah, I guess you're right.