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There is a lot of criticism of the opposition on this thread. I can understand people not bothering for all sorts of reasons, but I am really surprised that people aren't interested by it.

Exactly this for me, and foreign opposition of a decent pedigree as well. As I said, I am AMAZED by the negativity about this fixture.

I like European football. I've not seen Brighton play many well known European teams and if I'm honest I am unlikely to, so this to me is great. I am really surprised so many people are so negative about it. Like I said, I accept if people can't be arsed with friendlies but I really can't...

Perhaps I didn't write it well, but I accept its a friendly and some people aren't interested in them, which is fair enough. I was talking more about the people who are complaining about the opposition. Villarreal are a big Spanish team who've done a lot in Europe very recently (aside from the...

I said a similar thing last year when people seemed to think that Newcastle was such a bad cup draw that the club should have paid them to go: Anyone who isn't interested in seeing us play Villarreal EITHER has no knowledge or understanding of football, is really an armchair premiership fan or...