SaintPowelly wrote:Its the opposite at St.Marys, BMB, 95% of Saints fans don't care about Bournemouth, and the 5% that do want them to win and keep an eye out at full-time. It wasn't until we played you in the league a few years ago that we realised you guys hated us, because none of us cared about you
Southampton fans can be quite arrogant since the last few years of coming up from League One. They hijacked the Seagulls boards at the time, posting absolute shite in all fairness, much of it was uncalled for and pretty annoying. I think before that Brighton fans had supported Southampton fans through their dark days, we went through it, we sympathised with it, and we were happy to see you come out and start doing well...... and got repaid by idiots trolling our boards and making disgusting remarks about homophobia, and pretending as if we were some big local rivals. It was actually quite sad at the time, I thought as South Coast teams with no historical rivalry it was personally nice that both of us had came back from the brink of bankruptcy and were doing well, and that we could both acknowledge that.
I think the majority of Brighton fans have huge respect for what Saints have done, and don't begrudge their success. Brighton fans also have supported Portsmouth through their dark times too.
Tbf though, I am not big into football rivalries. Palace v Brighton is really huge, it is under-rated how vicious a rivalry it is, but that is only because its a fake, made up rivalry, and people seem to want to give it non-existant breadth and gravity. Of course, I don't like Palace, their fans also are horrid with their arrogance and consistently homophobic chants, but apart from that there is nothing there.