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And So The Story Begins…

Eleven strangers all forced into a new environment, in front of the prying eyes of 6,000 people expecting brilliance, but getting boring – No I’m not talking about the new series of Big Brother, the football season (09/10) was back [...]

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Dreamed a Dream

On very rare occasions can a Hairy Angel from Scotland and a Lizard from Sussex have something in common. But for Susan Boyle and fans of Brighton and Hove Albion, that is the case, they have dreamed a dream, and [...]

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Review of the season

The 2008/2009 must be one of the strangest seasons of all time in the history of Brighton & Hove Albion. It started with high expectation, finished in jubilation, but in reality was a total disaster!
Forty-one players used, twenty six signings, [...]

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REMF 2009 – Walking in a Wardy Wonderland

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Brighton & Hove Albion 4 – 4 Crystal Palace
Mendoza, Jenkins, Marlowe, Phillips – S Daley (2), Davison, Trilby,
Brighton win 5-3 on penalties.
They will be talking about it for years to come. What a night, the drama, the rubbish football, [...]

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One Week of Agony, How Will it End??

Russell Slade was not a manager high on anyone’s priority list when the inevitable happened and Micky Adams was sacked. No one had really heard of him, but now he is taking his place amongst the lovable cult legends that [...]

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There Can Be Miracles, When You Believe

It seems that most of the nation’s football adoring public focus on the money making machine that is The Premier League, The Champions League and this weekend the two “dramatic” FA Cup Semi finals.
Is there anything more despairing than £60 [...]

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Butterflies

This is the one of the most tense relegation dogfights I have ever experienced, and I have had my fair share, I support the Albion.
Obviously, nothing could ever match the 96/97 season for drama, I challenge anyone to show me [...]

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Lucky pants

Its do or die time for our season & every ritual that you have ever partaken in to win a football match now needs to be repeated.
We are a strange breed us football fans. We take comfort in certain rituals [...]

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The Fat Lady Can Save Her Breath A Little While Longer.

Twelve years on, the comparisons were there to be made. Brighton vs. Hereford, a scrappy game of football with a tense last couple of minutes as part of a relegation battle in the lower regions of the football league. But [...]

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The Relegation Party Has Begun?

Saturday’s trip to Milton Keynes Dons probably represented everything that is wrong with modern day football. Through all the controversy of their very existence, I was prepared to move on and go to the game, which was another massive game [...]

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