Not Andy Naylor
Well-known member
May I recommend this book, written by, er, someone extremely close to me?
It's as near to an official promotion book as you can get, as the writer was given access to players, officials, coaches and TB, PB and CH themselves. It covers mainly the past two seasons, because he thought that you could only really appreciate last season if you know about what happened the season before. But there are also flashbacks to Hereford and beyond, such as Alan Mullery recalling the near miss of 1978.
Some of it everyone will know, and some of you will know most of it, but there are fresh insights from Paul Winstanley, Colin Calderwood, Glenn Murray, Lewis Dunk, Bruno, Solly March, Ben Roberts, Paul Barber and some bloke called David Stockdale.
It's available from City Books, the publisher's own website (details below), Amazon (which will make Bozza happy) and - I believe - will also be in the club shop.
https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/brighton-hove-albion-from-despair-to-triumph
The author tells me that he tried to write the book he would have wanted to read, and to let the people involved tell the story as much as possible. He also assures me that the slightly eye-watering price was the publisher's idea and not his.
Sadly, it sheds no light on what happened to the Cup Final money. Apologies to Ernest.
