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    Brighton & Hove Albion squad contract durations - 2016-17 

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    AZ Gull
    Published on 24-04-2017 14:30
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    Contract durations of Brighton and Hove Albion's Premier League-bound () first-team squad and development squad (sourced from club news releases, Argus articles and the FA Player Registration documents). ...
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    Chris Hughton, making it reign 

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    Stat Man
    Published on 23-04-2017 18:30
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    On Saturday Chris Hughton will take charge of his 125th Brighton game, joining Micky Adams (1st stint) as the club's 11th longest serving manager.

    If all goes well next season, he should end 17/18 as the club’s 7th longest servicing gaffer, overtaking Chris Cattlin (136), Mark McGhee     ...
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    Monday's Celebrations 

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    Stat Man
    Published on 23-04-2017 12:00
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    It was amazing to see so many of the club's fans invading the pitch on Monday to celebrate the Albion achieving promotion to the Premier League. The victory over Wigan was also another landmark, with the Albion winning their 250th Championship point at the Amex.

    With one     ...
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    Almost perfect symmetry 

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    Stat Man
    Published on 23-04-2017 08:30
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    Before entertaining Birmingham on the 4th April, Brighton's home record was a 3-0 win away from matching that of the final home table of the 1978/79 promotion winning side led by Alan Mullery.



    However, Che Adams 85th minute deflected shot ruined what could have     ...
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    Albion 2-1 Wigan Athletic, 17.04.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 19-04-2017 14:43
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    ‘Home to Wigan Athletic’ - doesn’t sound much of an event, written down. Recent ‘Home to Wigan Athletic’s can’t have been especially memorable – the last that springs to mind found us 2-0 down after four minutes at Withdean.

    Not so this one. Nobody will forget this one for a long, long time.

    Oh my. What a day.

    What. A. Day.

    The Amex was resplendent in the pre-match sunshine, capacity crowd buzzing with anticipation of history in the making. The pre-match montage. Highlights of a succession of recent wins – a runaway Albion train gobbling up the decisive points whilst Newcastle and Huddersfield stuttered. Warm applause for the players warming up, then a rousing ovation     ...
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    How the Dream Was Achieved 

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    Guinness Boy
    Published on 19-04-2017 12:49

    Well, that was a pretty good Easter, wasn’t it?

    It’s been an incredible two full seasons under Chris Hughton. Really, we should have gone up last year. Our record would have been good enough in almost any other season. But we didn’t. Rather than get disappointed though it allowed us to go away and add even more of what it is that makes us great just now. So what is “it”? Some national newspapers have come out with great articles in the last day or so trying to get to just this and they’ve certainly been paying more attention than we thought. However, we regular fans have known the ingredients for a while, and in depth. Here – in     ...
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    The Best Performing Promoted Teams 

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    MattBackHome
    Published on 19-04-2017 08:42
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    The pools of Blue WKD on West Street aren't even dry yet, and already the speculation has begun as to how we will fare in the big time. But what is the absolute best that Albion fans can expect next year? Here’s a rundown of the 7 teams this century that have reached at least 50 points in the Premier League directly following promotion from the second tier…

    7. Birmingham City 09/10: 50 Points (finished 9th)

    The definitive Alex McLeish team, this Birmingham side were extremely sturdy at the back and painfully dull to watch. ...
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    Albion 3 - 1 Birmingham City, 04.04.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 05-04-2017 11:45
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    A week ago, consensus in my Albion circles, was that full value from the remaining four home games would finish the job. Two down, two to go.
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    Albion 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 

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    Exile
    Published on 02-04-2017 13:34
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    Breaking team news: despite appearances, this isn’t Exile summarising the Blackburn Rovers game for you. In an unexpected turn, there’s a late substitution on the team sheet, a Chuba Akpom, if you will, whilst Exile Baldock rests up a slight knock for the run-in. Nothing could go wrong there, right?

    Another week, another Must Win for the Albion, whilst our nearest challengers set themselves up for what were, surely, easy home wins against Rovers’ fellow relegation fodder, Wigan and Burton. The emotional roller coaster (Copyright Big Book of Football     ...
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    Albion 3 - 0 Derby County, 10.03.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 12-03-2017 17:11
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    With the good ship Albion steadied by the professional win at rock-bottom Rotherham midweek, it was back to the Amex with a sense of calm confidence restored. Derby County the visitors - a team packed with star names, but on a wretched run of form.

    The Albion unchanged, bar Murray for Hemed - standard Hughton 4-4-2, with last season's go-to midfield pairing of Dale Stephens and Beram Kayal in the centre, and Jiri Skalak preferred on the left over the decent claims of March and Murphy.

    Steve McClaren's Rams set-up, rather less standard. Steve had either reached pure desperation levels in his efforts     ...
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    Norwegian saviour or defensive Paddy McCourt? Welcome Vegard Forren! 

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    Exile
    Published on 08-03-2017 16:45
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    As Jim White slammed shut the January transfer window, the Albion looked well stocked defensively. With the meanest defence in the Football League and a string of clean-sheets in the bag, the back line had been the bed-rock of a fabulous campaign to date. With no less than four centre-backs of proven Championship quality, and full-back reinforcements on the way in the imminent returns of Liam Rosenior and Gaeten Bong everything was rosy in that particular part of the garden.
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    The growing worth of Super Sam Baldock 

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    Exile
    Published on 03-03-2017 16:23
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    Over the course of the last six months or so, Albion number nine Sam Baldock has gone from strength to strength, adding goals to his intelligent and selfless running - finally winning over a large percentage of his erstwhile detractors in the process.

    Whilst his movement and work-rate have always been fully appreciated by his manager and team-mates (his strike partners especially), some of the fan base were less prepared to see past a modest contribution to the ‘Goals Scored’ column. “What does he even DO?” they would ask? – refusing to accept the value of the aforementioned attributes = goals win games, not ‘clever movement’.



    It is a truism of course – that goals DO win games – it's just that goals don’t happen by accident, (unless you’re Mo Diamė).     ...
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    Albion 1 - 2 Newcastle United, 28.02.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 01-03-2017 15:29
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    Well, that was disappointing.

    From a SkySports perspective, though, it was a brilliant, pulsating game – loads of goal-mouth action – penalty shouts to chew over – celebrity fans to spot – quality saves – a bizarre fluke goal – a dramatic late winner – all making for an apparently massive viewing audience, three times the usual level for a Championship game.

    It all started so well, too. The Amex packed to the rafters and in good voice – tension and excitement in the air – defeat here not terminal, but a win would have the table looking well beyond just promising.     ...
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    Albion 3 - 0 Reading, 25.02.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 27-02-2017 12:13
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    Back to the Amex, off the back of what felt a HUGE win in a tricky fixture at Barnsley – an unchanged Albion ran out to a boisterous crowd, lubricated by the early evening kick-off, and buoyed by the afternoon’s Championship results – both Newcastle and Huddersfield dropping points – the Toon, in what looked a home banker.



    For Albion fans of anything but the newest vintage, the Royal’s style of play was immediately familiar – a carbon copy of Gus Poyet’s Albion on a poor away day – lengthy spells of harmless deep possession     ...
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    Albion 1 - 1 Ipswich Town, 14.02.2017 

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    Exile
    Published on 15-02-2017 14:39
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    Nobody said it was easy (nobody said it would be so hard).

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