Skaville
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Just stumbled across this Guardian article on a young Lewis dunk https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/feb/20/brighton?0p19G=c
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Lewis dunk at 16
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grubbyhands
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Good spot and very interesting too.
Colonel Angus
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I reckon that kid might just make it.
I wonder if he looked like Micky Pearce back then too.
I wonder if he looked like Micky Pearce back then too.
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Good read that.
Its one of the true joys of football - seeing a youngster come up through the ranks into the first team, and flourishing. Dunk is one of our finest examples of that, year on year he has just gotten better and better. He's still got the odd rickett in him, but they are getting fewer and fewer these days. He's not being tested yet at the same as John Stones, but there are so many similarities in them. Confidence on the ball, sometimes a bit of overconfidence bordering on arrogance, but a dazzling talent. He's destined for a career in the Premier League, there is absolutely no doubt about it.
Its one of the true joys of football - seeing a youngster come up through the ranks into the first team, and flourishing. Dunk is one of our finest examples of that, year on year he has just gotten better and better. He's still got the odd rickett in him, but they are getting fewer and fewer these days. He's not being tested yet at the same as John Stones, but there are so many similarities in them. Confidence on the ball, sometimes a bit of overconfidence bordering on arrogance, but a dazzling talent. He's destined for a career in the Premier League, there is absolutely no doubt about it.
Sussex Nomad
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Would I dare to say he's looking like a Mark Lawrenson?
AmexRuislip
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A great read, especially with recent events in the news about football 
AZ Gull
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He started supporting them when he was a kid as his whole family supported them.
That article doesn't mention it, but he spent about 4 years from the age of 7 in Wimbledon's youth system - his dad used to drive him up there for training and games. It was only when they moved to MK Dons that he joined Albion. It's probably the only good thing that came out of that move.....
Icy Gull
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Interesting, I have always thought of him as a "Brighton" boy, clearly I was wrong.
GingerBeerMan
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He's too good for us now. If we don't go up this season id like to see him move on for his sake, he's put in the effort and improves every season, it's only fair he gets a shot at the very big time. I can see him on the fringes of England in two to three seasons time
Biscuit Barrel
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You have saved yourself some money then. He is a very good CB, but he is not good enough for England IMHO.
Biscuit Barrel
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It is because of really good players like Dunk, that local boys and girls will start supporting the Albion and not one of the so called big clubs.
When I went to secondary school in the early 1990's I was one of only a few kids that supported Brighton. I see loads of kids locally wearing Albion strips in the local parks. Always makes me proud of how far the club has come.