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Just an update on this post. I managed to find Lee Phillips, Jeff Walls and Pete Warland. These were the guys missing from the original Seagulls story, the group who came up with the name Seagulls in 1975. It took a bit of time and I only found Jeff Walls end of March. It has been 30 years plus...

If you read the OP Argus it tells you that it was a direct response to Palarse. It was that game that the chant exploded. It was on the lips of young and old alike.

It was one of the Eureka moments. It just sounded perfect, just a single chant that could go on and on and Brighton by the sea with seagulls all around and it would get up the noses of Palarse fans (If I remember right).

The Seagull chant was sung at home matches prior to the Palarse match but this was the big one that had everybody around the ground singing (just as we hoped it would do). It made the club think 'what is this seagulls thing', as you said, the Seagull chant was verberating around the ground.

Mafeking Road, just off the Lewes Road, Brighton. He now lives in Newhaven.

well . . . me! and I'm sure Steve Smith pops on occasionally but I don't know his username.

40 years ago Christmas Eve 1975 a group of BHA fans were in the pub The Bosun in West Street Brighton, trying to come up with ways of getting a chant going that would get everyone joining in. After a few beers and much discussion the name of SEAGULLS came about. Little did we realise the name of...