A positive view on the Albion.

[AmexRuislip]

High-flying Seagulls are ready for a Premier League future.

Top-class facilities, financial stability, giving back to their community: all reasons Brighton & Hove Albion deserve Premier League football, writes Andrew Derrett

Many football teams around the country seem fit for a life at the top of the national game. Established heavyweights like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool are almost synonymous with the Premier League – one could barely envisage an English top-flight without them. The rest consist of those battling for survival, and those who sit comfortably, quietly going about their business.

Southampton, Stoke, West Brom: these aren’t clubs often involved at either ‘business-ends’ of the table, and they rarely enthuse or excite a neutral fan. But the truth is, most of the 92 English Football League clubs would bite your hand off if offered to be in the position of relative stability held by these teams.

And Tuesday evening played host to two second-tier teams harbouring serious hopes of joining that less-than-illustrious group. Newcastle’s visit to Brighton was billed as a key battle in the much publicised ‘Race for the Premier League’, as the Championship’s top two locked horns on the south coast. In a broadly even, competitive affair, it was the visitors who walked away with a 2–1 victory, a late double handing them a vital three points and taking them above Brighton to the Championship summit.

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[Thunder Bolt]

A good piece, even if 8 paragraphs are repeated in it.

 

[AmexRuislip]

A good piece, even if 8 paragraphs are repeated in it.

Fat fingers

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Fat fingers

There's no need to be rude. My fingers are quite long and slim, thank you.

 

[LamieRobertson]

AR..you sure you haven't retired already?

 

[Spicy]

Brilliant article and so proud to be an Albion fan.

 

[Lush]

"Families, women, and children, all are welcome and comfortable on a match-day, and the noise generated in a full Amex Stadium manages to be raucous yet far from intimidating."

Without wishing to derail the thread, this sentence, for me, is why we shouldn't have a drum.

 

[Surf's Up]

"Families, women, and children, all are welcome and comfortable on a match-day, and the noise generated in a full Amex Stadium manages to be raucous yet far from intimidating."

Without wishing to derail the thread, this sentence, for me, is why we shouldn't have a drum.

Thread derailed.

 

[Gazwag]

"Families, women, and children, all are welcome and comfortable on a match-day, and the noise generated in a full Amex Stadium manages to be raucous yet far from intimidating."

Without wishing to derail the thread, this sentence, for me, is why we shouldn't have a drum.

Not opening the drum debate but it depends how you define intimidating - I would argue the first 20 minutes against Sheff Wed last year was intimidating and how good would it be to get that every match.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

"Families, women, and children, all are welcome and comfortable on a match-day, and the noise generated in a full Amex Stadium manages to be raucous yet far from intimidating."

Without wishing to derail the thread, this sentence, for me, is why we shouldn't have a drum.

Burn her at the stake

 

[beefypigeon]

"Brighton's entire team on Tuesday had a value less than that of Newcastle's Aleksandar Mitrovic alone."

Just goes to show how well we are doing to be competing so closely with such an expensively put together team. Mitrovic didn't even get on the pitch!

 

[BNthree]

Without wishing to derail the thread, this sentence, for me, is why we shouldn't have a drum.

 

[Diego Napier]

Excellent post, excellent read, thanks AR!

 

[Hamilton]

Great to see positivity like this.

Just one note. The closing argument: "Nothing is certain of course, and the supporters may have to keep exercising their well-practised patience, but it is surely just a matter of time before the city can boast the top-flight football club it so dearly craves." Surely if nothing is certain, then it's not a matter of time before we get promoted, it's a matter of capability. I'm being pedantic I'm sure.

 

[clarkey]

Nice that University of Cambridge is back in the NSC good books after the money burning affair a couple of weeks back.

Should probably note that the author is from Brighton, and a Brighton fan, but nice that the word is being spread.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Nice that University of Cambridge is back in the NSC good books after the money burning affair a couple of weeks back.

Should probably note that the author is from Brighton, and a Brighton fan, but nice that the word is being spread.

If he's the same person as on Twitter, most definitely a Brighton fan.

 

[Justice]

"Brighton's entire team on Tuesday had a value less than that of Newcastle's Aleksandar Mitrovic alone."

Just goes to show how well we are doing to be competing so closely with such an expensively put together team. Mitrovic didn't even get on the pitch!

Mmm they have based this on what we paid for current players compared to their current market value, not sure you would get much change from £20m for Knockhaert these days.

 

[timbha]

Made me feel a lot better

 

[AmexRuislip]

AR..you sure you haven't retired already?

I wish

 

[cooliobhafc]

Good article, should give a lot of fans, threatening to jump off buildings or self combusting a bit of a reality check. From where we have come since Goldstone, to where we are now is fantastic. Never has this club been so secure in its future and I among many am loving every bit of this incredible journey we are on.