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Ivan Conway will be reporting on Sussex sport. He is a member of the 1901 club at Brighton HAFC, Sussex County Cricket Club and an enthusiastic horse race goer. After selling his freight forwarding and conference business he settled in Hove. His other interests are bird watching, brass rubbing and bridge. More Posts

Brighton 1 Chelsea 1

One incident defined the difference between the two teams. This would never occur at Brighton who have such a strong collective team spirit. They thoroughly deserved the draw with an equaliser from the outstanding Adam Webster. Except up front, Brighton have quality in depth. Graham Potter selected [...]

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Crystal Palace 1

This fixture is known for its toxicity. The clubs are 55 miles apart. Portsmouth and Southampton are nearer Brighton – Charlton and Millwall nearer Crystal Palace – so you cannot call call it a derby, although it is has been termed the M25 or M23 derby. Both of these are geographically [...]

January 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Seagulls soaring

With 7 points outs of a possible 9, Brighton can look back at a successful festive season. For the first time Brighton scored 3 in a match at Everton in a 3-2 win and 2 came from the unlikely source of Alex Mac Allister [Note to sub-editor: he likes to separate his “Mac” from his [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Chelsea 1 Brighton 1

The mantra under Chris Hughton was ‘Stay in the game’ and, though Brighton play better football under his successor Graham Potter, that very much was the theme of our resilient draw at Stamford Bridge. This was achieved with four key players not starting: Leandro Trossard, Lewis Dunk, Shane [...]

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Brentford 0

Brighton achieved their first win since September after completing the double over Brentford. In the absence of central defenders Lewis Dunk, Shane Duffy and Joel Veltman, Adam Webster and Dan Burn took the central berths in a flat back-four flanked by exciting attacking full backs Qadir Lamptey [...]

December 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Wolves 1

A few weeks ago I predicted that – if Brighton’s goal drought continued – the Seagulls would descend into mid-table. After this defeat Brighton extended their winless run to 12 matches and are in 13th place, closer to the bottom three than the top four. Graham Potter had severe [...]

December 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

West Ham 1 Brighton 1

The Seagulls maintained their unbeaten record against the Hammers in their second consecutive draw. They left it rather late – and had only 10 players on the pitch – when Neil Maupay atoned for previous misses by equalising with a spectacular overhead kick. West Ham had taken an early [...]

December 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

A cricket charity lunch

Yesterday as a guest I attended a cricketing lunch at a seafront hotel to raise money for a community charity run by Sussex CCC. The guest of honour was Glenn Hoddle. I have been attending such lunches for over 30 years and the format has little changed. For me the main drawback is the length of [...]

November 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Newcastle 1

This dreadful match was a rude awakening for the Seagulls after their impressive draw at Anfield last week. We started well but it took VAR to make the referee David Coote after 24 minutes reconsider the challenge on Leo Trossard by Kieran Clark and award a penalty which Trossard converted  to [...]

November 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Liverpool 2 Brighton 2

Some cynics have suggested that Brighton’s brilliant start and high placing is due to avoiding the big boys. They cite the recent 1 – 4 defeat at home to Manchester City. Mark Lawrenson was not the only one fearful then of a trip to Anfield but in the end Brighton thoroughly deserved their [...]

October 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

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