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Maybe I'm living in a parallel universe - but I thought that Brighton didn't get relegated.

As others have said - you are assuming that he wanted these jobs. Look at it from CH's perspective - he's 60 years old - he spent 4 1/2 years at Brighton getting the club promoted and kept them in the PL (a massive challenge for a club with Brighton's playing budget) - then he got sacked. Would...

When Hughton took over Norwich 3/4 of the squad were over 30 and the average age of the 'starting 11' was 33. Hughton did a clear out after his first season at Norwich because he knew they would struggle badly if he didn't. All the players he brought in were younger, including 3 academy payers...

McCarthy has a two-year contract and Stephen Kenny has a contract to replace McCarthy after the two years.

Don't tell me nobody has started a thread on next season's fixtures? https://www.premierleague.com/clubs/131/Brighton-and-Hove-Albion/fixtures

As an interesting aside - while I am talking about Irish internationals - come across a story a while back about a trial for a young Irish player arranged with Brighton by Paul McCarthy while he was a player there. The young fella played for the same youth team in Ireland as McCarthy - but the...

I am Irish - I take a deep interest in anything to do with the Irish international team and have done for a long, long time. Chris Hughton was a fantastic servant for Ireland - a consummate professional and the first black (actually mixed race) player to play for Ireland. He is one of my two...

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:bowdown: Another person jumping to conclusions

Cashflow This I agree with - people under-estimate how highly Hughton is thought of - and if this was six months ago Hughton would have walked into the Ireland job. Someone else who thinks that Hughton doesn't know how to play attacking football. And of course he did that when he had...

Chris Hughton is not a 'defensive minded manager' - he works with what he has to get the job done.

I was talking to Ray Houghton a couple of weeks ago and he was saying he gets p*ssed when people leave the 'o' out of his name.