We haven't made that much progress in 40 years

[portslade seagull]

My first game was in November 1981, about a month before Albion reached their highest-ever league placing of sixth in Division One. It was pretty much downhill for the next 16 years! Culminating, of course, in two successive next-to-bottom finishes in the entire football league.

What a journey.

But if we had kept Mike Bailey I think we would have stayed up and built from there