RexCathedra
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There are precisely six Real Football Clubs™ in England, Brighton are not one of them, and don't you forget it. The rest of the 92 are just 86 NPC (non-playing characters), there to dress the set.
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[Albion] It's the opposition, not us
- Thread starter Official Old Man
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There are precisely six Real Football Clubs™ in England, Brighton are not one of them, and don't you forget it. The rest of the 92 are just 86 NPC (non-playing characters), there to dress the set.
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- Jan 3, 2012
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It’s something like the maxim attributed to a number of golfers and others, including Lee Trevino and Tony Jacklin: “ it seems the more I practice, the luckier I get.”
Thank you for this. You have expressed my feelings much better than I could....
Agreed. I think part of it is simply because the big teams get a focus when we beat / take points off them, but I totally understand that they get most of the focus then given (a) that's likely a bigger story in the "narrative" of the season and (b) ultimately more people care about them than us. If we were being treated similarly when playing against teams outside the big 6 then I could totally understand it, but we aren't so I don't.
The Commentators for the game for starters, sure they where saying we deserved at least a point but they were book ending that with how flat Liverpool were, also worryingly they kept going on about how long we would be able to keep hold of some of our players. Then we have Dion Dublin and Leon Osman on optus sport, Sure discussing what a great job GP has done and how good it must be for RZB to be walking into a side like ours, the next topic was "so what is going on at Liverpool whats gone wrong. Again my point is we are given credit for playing well but the main blame for our win is that the other side were not performing properly. You dont hear "what a fantastic match, both teams played their hearts out but Brighton were just to good" Admittedly the narrative is changing and many of the pundits are starting to see what was blindingly obvious to us, but the "x side were not themselves today" continues. Bizarrely I am waiting for a Brighton loss where they say so and so were good but really Brighton were not themselves and did not play their usual game and gave it away.
Bold Seagull
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Which is exactly what was said away to Fulham. Liverpool have been top of the league for 3 or 4 years as well as winning it - how on earth would anyone commentate on a Liverpool game right now without commentating on what has gone wrong this season? Last season they only dropped points in 10 games out of 38, this season they've dropped points in 5 out of 7 already.
Brighton weren't too good, we were 3-2 down with a few minutes to go after being 2 nil up. Be a bit weird to be saying "Brighton were just too good" - when actually they weren't.
Just to detract a bit more from the "People don't give credit us enough" mindset... Here's a nice piece of praise in the Guardian's 10 things to look out for this weekend bit about the Brighton v Spurs match (and yes, they do mention Spurs, sorry):
"Train strikes will make it difficult for Tottenham fans to make this battle between third and fourth. After their last two performances, a no-show in the north London derby and Tuesday’s stalemate at Eintracht Frankfurt, some supporters will be happy to half-watch on TV. They would be missing the chance to see Brighton, whose attacking performance in drawing 3-3 last week at Anfield was thrilling. Leandro Trossard’s hat-trick reinforced his status as one of the players of the season so far, and threw up the ironic aside that Potter had been holding his old team back all along. Perhaps Roberto De Zerbi can prove that not all Italian coaches are as conservative as Antonio Conte has been this season – though in Serie A, De Zerbi’s Sassuolo took only one point from Conte’s Inter in three encounters, another 3-3 draw in June 2020."
"Train strikes will make it difficult for Tottenham fans to make this battle between third and fourth. After their last two performances, a no-show in the north London derby and Tuesday’s stalemate at Eintracht Frankfurt, some supporters will be happy to half-watch on TV. They would be missing the chance to see Brighton, whose attacking performance in drawing 3-3 last week at Anfield was thrilling. Leandro Trossard’s hat-trick reinforced his status as one of the players of the season so far, and threw up the ironic aside that Potter had been holding his old team back all along. Perhaps Roberto De Zerbi can prove that not all Italian coaches are as conservative as Antonio Conte has been this season – though in Serie A, De Zerbi’s Sassuolo took only one point from Conte’s Inter in three encounters, another 3-3 draw in June 2020."