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He's signed for Las Palmas in Spain's second tier. They made the play-offs last season and have started this season unbeaten, yet to concede a goal. So he could yet end up back in Spain's top flight.

Think they'd been 52 games unbeaten at home and were European champions at the time, Clapham. Are that win over Liverpool made it two in a row 'coz we'd knocked them out at Anfield on the way to the final the year before too.

You cleverly divined that from the subtle hints and oblique references to him in my post? :smile: No. No I'm not.

I've had a season ticket for 38 years and I can count the number of times I've given a toss who's in the opponents' shirts on the fingers of one hand. And every single time it's been about showing appreciation for what they've done previously in a Brighton shirt - Reinelt at Orient, Zamora...

Collector here too. Absolutely never without a watch, change the one I'm wearing every day or even more than once a day, depending on activity. Feel undressed without one and think they're things of functional and aesthetic beauty. Don't wear any other kind of jewellery or adornment - it's just...

This debate is itself evidence enough that they do have cause to complain. Even with VAR, and having seen it again, opinion is divided. For me that's too soft to be a pen. It's not like he ripped the shirt off his back, and he was flopping down in the standard 'I've been shot' fashion that's so...

Seconded.

If he pulled out of the challenge, meaning he tried to not make it, doesn't that mean that by definition the contact was accidental? Even the Beeb's usual stream of Surrey Mancs are saying that wasn't a pen, still less a red. But Shyster adores the big boys.

I'm not sure I can share the collective glee at the result here. Firstly, it's the effing Mancs. Secondly, imagine if the title comes down to goal difference. An appalling VAR decision at 4-0 which would have given them at least a slight chance of stemming the tide a bit. An appalling VAR...

He didn't just cheat against England, though, did he? We weren't even at the World Cup in 94. It's not simply about what he did to England. Far worse than the handball was the glorying in it afterwards. Any player, no matter how good, no matter how worshipped in his own country, should be...

The G.O.A.T. debate will always be impossible to pin down because of the evolution of the game. But for me, you can't be the GOAT if you're a cheat. And he was a cheat. Bernd Schuster, his teammate at Barcelona, said after the '86 quarter final that he practised that handball move in training...

Anyone who doesn't know about PAOK's, erm, 'chequered' history is missing out on some top-level bonkersness. Their chairman invading the pitch while armed is merely the highest-profile example of some pretty weird s*** that's gone on at that club.

Deeney's quoted comments on the Beeb are brutally honest and don't make him sound like a 'broken man' to me. He clearly realises who relegation hits hardest - the people who work at the clubs off the pitch, and the fans. Extremely disappointed yeah, but broken?

That's a rotten goal to concede, frankly. Simple ball over and in behind, defensive line jagged, Wood had a one-on-one. Good first touch but bloody hell that ball in was too easy.

Indeed, peterward. You ask anybody what colours Brighton play in, they're going to say, "Blue and white stripes." They're not going to say, "Blue'" unless they're guessing. Or answering the question next season.

Another chance created by Lamptey. Bloody hell, he's going to be good, isn't he? Full credit to the recruitment there.

Terrific strike from Biss, and if Maupay's production is to match his ambition, he has to score with headers like that. Lamptey looking excellent already - they're looking to get the ball to him as often as possible and he's really giving them problems down that side.

Awful. Awful awful awful. Every time we abandon blue and white stripes, the shirt comes out looking like something designed by somebody who has absolutely no affinity with the club. As has been said, it could be Pompey, Millwall, Ipswich or any one of a number of other clubs. Doesn't look like a...

Villa are going to lose Grealish either way. Throwing money at it hasn't helped them this season, and I'm not sure a Grealish-less Villa will tear up the division next year. Suspect it would be Watford who improve next season, if they stop up. For all the bonkers management stuff, they've got...

Palace Man Utd MK Dons Then you can add a list of the closed shop of big boys at the top, all at the same level: Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, PSG etc etc. Don't have the anti-Liverpool thing; my experience of their support has always been positive and I'm keen for United to...