This evening I experienced my first Albion home game at the new AMEX stadium. It was an interesting experience, and I was impressed with the flash and modern arena. Brighton lost one-nil to West Ham in what was probably quite a predictable result. The real disappointment for me this evening, apart from the bloke sitting behind me that kept saying 'Jesus Christ!' all through the game when something didn't go our way - which got a bit much after the 200th time, was all the queuing;
As soon as you got to Brighton station you had to queue to get onto a train to Falmer, in which hundreds of people were forced to fit in 3 carriages, to such an extent that I spent the journey with half of my face in someone's armpit and the other half breathing in some bloke's bad breath - something which didn't help my claustrophobia. Then you had to queue to get out of the station, and then queue to get into the ground. After the game you then have to do all of the queuing in reverse again (not backwards, just the same bits again.)
I am not a patient queuer.
But it was good to see a full stadium of Albion fans - even if a large chunk of them have only jumped onto the team's recent success - as it represent a pride in it's sport that the city of Brighton and Hove has been lacking for many years. And it is an impressive football stadium. I might not like the queuing, but I was proud to be a loyal fan tonight.
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