We All Follow the Albion

Certain Brighton and Hove Albion fans have an infinite capacity to knock the club whatever they do; there is no ray of sunshine that cannot be explained away as a false dawn; no action that cannot be twisted ...

As any Albion regular will note, the past two seasons have featured more drawing than Tony Hart’s Gallery, and once again on Saturday afternoon, fans found themselves pondering the now familiar “point gained” or “two points dropped” dilemma.

Norwich City are, in the eyes of most observers, still ...

With the last international break until March 2015 out of the way, Albion go into a crucial run of games to pull them away from the sides below them.

The Seagulls are still only one point away from dropping into the bottom three, and face a tough run of games over the Christmas period, starting this afternoon at Carrow Road.

With Tony Bloom having given his backing to Sami Hyypia during the two week break, it’s now up to the Finn to repay his chairman’s faith, and pull Brighton away from the sides below them.

With a number of players picking up injuries in the weeks before the ...

Four current Albion players were in action for their countries today:

Christian Walton
U20 International Friendly, Coimbra
Portugal 1-1 England, England win 4-3 on penalties
The young Albion keeper played the full game, saving a penalty as England took a creditable scalp ...

Jake Forster-Caskey
Thu 13.11.14, England 3-1 Portugal, U-21 Friendly
Mon 17.11.14, France v England, U-21 Friendly



Gordon Greer
Fri 14.11.14, Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland, Euro Champ Qualifier
Tue 18.11.14, 20.00 Scotland v England, International Friendly

After Greer's immense perfornace against Robert Lewandowski in his country's fabulous 2-2 draw with Poland during the last break, he will consider himself rather harshly benched, for the Scots' crucial qualifier ...

Jake Forster-Caskey
Thu 13.11.14, England 3-1 Portugal, U-21 Friendly
Mon 17.11.14, France v England, U-21 Friendly

Forster-Caskey retained his starting spot, and indeed played the full 90 minutes, in England's friendly win, at Burnley's Turf Moor, against one of their group opponents at next summer's European Championship ...

It's been over a year since the Albion first announced tentative plans to build a 120-room hotel and student accommodation alongside the club's Amex home, and it's all gone quiet since the City's ruling Green Party announced intentions to work with the club.

The Albion make use of the stadium no more than 30 times a year and it was designed ...

Once again a number of Albion's players are in action with their countries over this International break:

Gordon Greer
Fri 14.11.14, 19.45 Scotland v Republic of Ireland, Euro Champ Qualifier
Tue 18.11.14, 20.00 Scotland v England, International Friendly

After Greer's immense perfornace against Robert Lewandowski in his country's fabulous 2-2 draw with Poland during the last break, he will be hopeful of retaining his spot for the Scots' must-win qualifier ...

In his latest State-of-the-Albion-Nation, Tony Bloom confirmed that Sami Hyypia is still very much feeling his way in the ultra-competitive Championship, but that he believes the Finn has it within himself to deliver the success that Albion fans have become accustomed to in the early years of the Amex era.

Speaking to BBC Sussex's Johnny Cantor, the Albion chairman ...

Parachutes

Following the recent article penned on the Financial Fair Play (FFP) changes announced last week, it's fair to say that @bozza and I have been taken to task in a series of emails by Albion CEO Paul Barber.

Paul's viewpoint is that my comments didn't deal with all of the issues raised at the Football League meeting last week, (a point I concede, but, the Football League press release didn't deal with a number of issues that Paul thinks are very significant). He was especially concerned about my criticism of 'Greater Good' comment ...

What difference does it make?

The new rules for Financial Fair Play (FFP) announced by the Football League Championship earlier this week provoked head scratching, chin rubbing, calculator tapping and cynical indifference in equal measure from Albion fans.

The latest incarnation of FFP (which I suspect won't be the last), attempts to address some of the criticisms of the 'old' (i.e. current) rules, which were deemed by some to give clubs relegated from the Premier League too great an advantage over more established FL members. ...

Blackburn arrived at the Amex, a single point outside of the play-off places - more or less where Albion fans would have reasonably expected to be sitting themselves, at this point of the season. That they are not, has been cause for floods of over-dramatic reaction, and finger-pointing, as people seek to pin blame on their chosen scapegoats. It can all seem such an enormous issue when your team is struggling - it can spoil weekends, and cause friction in households ...

Having finally ended their winless run stretching back to the end of August against Wigan on Tuesday night, Sami Hyypia’s Brighton side will likely go into this afternoon’s match at the Amex with more confidence as they play their final game before the next international break.

Whilst the performance wasn’t the best from the side this season, Gary Gardner’s striker in the first minute of the game was enough for Albion to grind out the much-needed victory over the Latics.

The result eases the pressure in ...

Sami Hyypiä finds himself in quite a quandary ahead of tomorrow’s match with Blackburn Rovers.

The Albion head honcho has to decide which of his six loan players to leave out of Brighton’s 18-man match day squad, with league rules stipulating only five can be selected.

That leaves him in something of a pickle. Both the Bennetts – Elliott and Joe – will surely play, and Greg Halford was borrowed from Nottingham Forest to provide defensive cover while the Seagulls have to do without the injured Aaron Hughes. The suspicion, then, is that the versatile defender will almost ...