I agree with that, I've only caught a few of our games on TV this season, but have been struck how comfortable we look as a side (other than when poking the ball at goal) in terms of our positioning in both defence and attack - we never look out of our depth, and frequently make the opponents...
A certain team up the road have being doing this with a certain player for years... :whistle:
... and this has never happened for that certain player! :lolol:
I don't think that is true at all, Bristol City weren't mathematically safe from relegation going into that game, so they had more riding on it. I think that the main issue we had with those last three matches was that Hughton started experimenting with the tactics he was going to use in the...
I wouldn't like to comment on the Brighton of today, but certainly historically it was very much working class as it was a centre for the railways - Brighton Works, Lancing Carriage Works, and the Pullman Carriage Works all being based in the vicinity... and of course people forget that all...
We get that, it wasn't that long ago we experienced the same thing when we got promoted. It is just the fact that the Premier League has a habit of crashing into reality. We've just completed our third season in it, and it's probably the first one that hasn't been a mind-numbing slog!
I wonder how much they'll have to spend on Elland Road to bring it up to Premier League standard? Even then I suspect it'll still be a fairly uncomfortable visit, as I recall from my only previous visit there that the seats were just bolted directly to every other step of the former terraces...