[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Manchester City *** Official Match Thread ***

[AlexBH]

Hilarious comment on the sport section on the mail online. “Chelsea havd really done Brighton so many favours this season. Giving them 70m for sideshow Marc cucumber, and actually paying them to replace potter with de zarbi.”

SIDESHOW MARC CUCUMBER!

and Estupinian is a better player as well!

 

[B-right-on]

Hear me out, lets bottle it against Villa to keep Spurs out of Europe.....

A better result would be a win or draw against Villa, Leeds beat Spuds and Brentford beat Citeh then Brentford get into the Europa Conference and Villa/Spuds miss out.

 

[AlexBH]

P.s wasn’t it just FANTASTIC seeing a VAR decision go in our favour against a big 6 team! The absolute disgust on Pep’s face, like how dare you. The only disappointing thing about tonight was that we didn’t win.

 

[Invicta]

Amazing performance again. Home and still buzzing! UTA !

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Yep - everything about the evening was just brilliant. And so nice to just enjoy a game without the stress of needing a win, too. What a night. What an atmosphere. What a goal! Just a joy to be there.

agree, cracking atmosphere, I felt privileged just to be there with my daughter, we both loved.

As for city fans, yep absolute shit considering they were away fans and the situation they're in. Atmosphere always dire at the Etihad too. Have they always been so shit!?

They didn’t even sell out, swathes of spaces and quite a few left before the final whistle.
No they have not always been like that to be fair.


one grumble about tonight, we’re some of the Japanese tourists fans just there to see one player.
grown men screaming his name every five minutes and constantly holding a phone towards the pitch.
he actually had an off game tonight, his first touch let him down a couple of times, so much to my daughters amusement.
At half time, I leaned in to talk to my daughter knowing some of them behind me listened and said “Mitomas rubbish tonight, we should take him off, I’ve heard were selling him to Manchester Rovers in the summer”

There was lots chatter after that behind me, they left 15 minutes into the second half, which is understandable considering their journey home.

 

[Triggaaar]

Pep Guardiola:

"Exceptional game. Congratulations to Brighton for their deserved qualification to the Europa League."

[Was this game a good test?] "It was absolutely, this time Brighton, they destroy the other opponents they have been playing. They did it in certain moments, especially the last 10 or 15 minutes, we struggled but we did really well."

Yeah, he also said the reason they didn't win was because the men in yellow didn't want them to

 

[Sheebo]

Every one of those players were superb tonight. Gave it their all and the energy and press was brilliant. Against a near full strength City team (best in the world) with 4 key players rested and 7 or so injured. Brilliant. One of the performances of the season - atmosphere and our fans were brilliant again too!

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Yeah, he also said the reason they didn't win was because the men in yellow didn't want them to

He is a prick simple as that.

 

[Oh_aye]

Funny in the train queue after the match when a pair of gobby Citeh twats in their 20s started mouthing-off with homophobic abuse only to find out they were standing behind a hard-as-nails Albion geezer in his 40s who calmly told them: "Listen, I'm not asking you to shut-up, I'm TELLING you to shut-up". The two Citeh heroes nearly shat themselves...

What about the nobhead on the bridge? Giving it a load next to his kid. Absolute scruff. It's amazing how hard people are when they're 20 feet up and behind a fence.

 

[Oh_aye]

He is a prick simple as that.

Constantly kept stepping into De Zerbis twchnical area as well the passive aggressive freak. Klopps the same. All smiles and openness until things don't go his way and then turns into a big baby.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

 

[oneillco]

agree, cracking atmosphere, I felt privileged just to be there with my daughter, we both loved.

They didn’t even sell out, swathes of spaces and quite a few left before the final whistle.
No they have not always been like that to be fair.


one grumble about tonight, we’re some of the Japanese tourists fans just there to see one player.
grown men screaming his name every five minutes and constantly holding a phone towards the pitch.
he actually had an off game tonight, his first touch let him down a couple of times, so much to my daughters amusement.
At half time, I leaned in to talk to my daughter knowing some of them behind me listened and said “Mitomas rubbish tonight, we should take him off, I’ve heard were selling him to Manchester Rovers in the summer”

There was lots chatter after that behind me, they left 15 minutes into the second half, which is understandable considering their journey home.

I'm sorry PBFO, but that is a very petty grumble. Personally, I find it astonishing that we are now attracting South American and Japanese fans and I'm very happy to see them at The Amex. Contrast our 31.5K attendances with watching an Albion game at Gillingham with only 3,000 of us there! Any Albion fan who makes them feel uncomfortable needs to take a very long hard look at themselves...

 

[Whoislloydy]

SIDESHOW MARC CUCUMBER!

I saw this too and laughed for a solid few minutes

 

[OzMike]

I thought this game was on tonight, oh well.
Sounds like we played better than expected.
Will watch the replay after work.

 

[dazzer6666]

The commentary

 

[WhingForPresident]

 

[Guinness Boy]

Hilarious comment on the sport section on the mail online. “Chelsea havd really done Brighton so many favours this season. Giving them 70m for sideshow Marc cucumber, and actually paying them to replace potter with de zarbi.”

SIDESHOW MARC CUCUMBER!

and Estupinian is a better player as well!

Firstly, stay off Mail online. It’ll give you cancer, or at the very least a charisma bypass that’ll mean you never get laid again.

Secondly, though, while I’ve had auto correct change Hair Bear’s surname to cucumber a couple of times it’s never given me the full Sideshow prefix and Cucumber suffix combo. Got to admit that’s superb

 

[Weststander]

RDZ the cool choir master.

Potter wouldn’t even attempt to Dad Dance that.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Goodness me that was a fine evening of entertainment

 

[Weststander]

The commentary

Didn’t like the repeated insult “Enciso L’Arsehole”