At the risk of showing my age there used to be motorcycle cops overriding the lights outside the Goldstone (crossroads by Hove Park Tavern) for a good 30 mins or so post match in order to get the traffic away. Surely some similar arrangement would sort out the Bridge car park if they put their...
Two options in my book - either finish the season when virus subsides but there's unlikely to be enough time to do so before start of new season - or just write this season off as if it never happened i.e. no promotions or relegation and no silverware, with top 4 from previous season finish...
Plenty in the pats but of the current players really don't like:
Calvert-Lewin - just nasty piece of work managing to wind up Bruno (who else ever managed to do that?) sufficiently for him to lash out with elbow and concede penalty which Rooney converted a couple of years back
Danny Rose - a...
Agreed - and the trouble with 3 centre halves is that Dunk plays on the left and is not around in the middle to put in his usual flying blocks. Also agree with the comments about trying Gross alongside Stephens / Kayal and pushing Propper further forward in role he plays (and scores in...
The shame of it was that Muzza was happy at Brighton and never wanted to leave but Gus didn't rate him and was lining up a replacement so made a paltry contract offer which Palace willingly trumped. Don't see Muzza was left with much of a choice - did any other clubs offer him a contract?? - and...
I was there - just dug out the programme - complete with the poster of John Westcott! Can't remember much of the match but that may just be a function of my age...
49 years young, season ticket holder since 1979
waited so long for club to get back to top division now determined to enjoy this season either way
still hoping that Jose Izquierdo, March & Knocky will have enough pace & guile amongst them to tear up these Premier League defenders!
Brighton offered him a year but Brum have offered him three. No idea how wages compare but suspect length of contract a key factor as well as possibly knowing that he'd be #2 for us this season. Life moves on and I wish him well in his new venture but he'll be fondly remembered for his time with...
we often seem to play a team beginning with A, B, C etc in first match of season so suspect the computer generated(?) algorithm for fixtures is alphabetically based to a degree with manual intervention thereafter (advice from police / local derbies etc)
on that basis an opener vs Arsenal or...
Think Bong will be steady at PL level without pulling up trees although suspect he may be the cover for that position and we'll end up signing a slightly higher profile left back.
the older members of my family always tell me the biggest coup was signing Bobby Smith (a then England Int'l) when BHA were a Div 4 team i.e the equivalent of Wayne Rooney signing for (say) Lincoln City now!
in my time of supporting BHA it must be Jimmy Case since he was a part of the all...
Matthew Ryan* / Stockdale
Maenpaa
Bruno
Rosenior
Bong
Stephen Ward*
Dunk
Duffy
Goldson
Huenemeier
Stephen Caulker*
Stephens
Kayal
Sidwell
Lucas*
Kevin Stewart*
Norwood
March
Knockaert
Murphy
Cairney* / Tom Lawrence*
Murray
Baldock
Hemed
Calleri*
*Affordable additions to a squad which...