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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 Spurs 1

Brighton achieved the one valuable point last night in a hard-fought game that should mean Premier status next season. Much has been made of the run-in that numbers Manchester City away, Manchester United at home and Liverpool away, but by then the position should be clearer. West Bromwich are [...]

April 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Arsenal 1

The  BBC computer predicts that 37 points will be enough to survive and if so Brighton only need one more win. Yesterday in an enthralling match the spirit of the Seagulls over-powered a directionless Arsenal team full of skilful individuals but no esprit de corps. This was epitomised by the [...]

March 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Seagulls see goals

Whilst Manchester City with their 13 point lead are turning the Premier race into a procession there is much excitement in the lower half where 7 points separate 10 teams. Two of them Brighton and West Ham met at the Amex and the Seagulls emerged as clear winners 3-1. Unified under a pragmatic [...]

February 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

A visit to the Ridgeview winery

Yesterday evening in the company of Algy Belville I visited the Ridgeview wine estate in Ditchling not far from Burgess Hill, East Sussex. It was founded in 1995 by Mike Roberts and produces premium sparkling wines by method champenoise although of course – as it’s outside the region [...]

January 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

How the other half manage

In an age where Liverpool buy a defender Virgil van Dyck for £75m having sold Coutinho for £162m, it was refreshing yesterday to have a coffee with Darren Freeman manager of Lewes on top of the Bostik South League. A big gate there at their quaintly-named ground the Dripping Pan is 800 and the [...]

January 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Liverpool 5

Whilst it did not happen in gritty performances against Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United, we were going to catch one eventually and we did yesterday when we were the whipping boys. My neighbour said a fair score would have been 8-5. Liverpool took a 2-0 lead into the half-time [...]

December 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Crystal Palace 0

The one game that Brigton supporters were relishing was the so called A23 Derby with Crystal Palace. Portsmouth is nearer but a series of incidents have intensified the rivalry 37 miles distant between Brighton and Palace to hate pitch. It all started with a cup replay in November 1976 at Stamford [...]

November 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brighton draw again and Sussex CCC appoint

Everyone down here could not be more delighted with Brighton’s start but we should have beaten Everton and Southampton in our last two home games. So when Pargie called for a prediction against Stoke I advised him to put his tenner on a draw. The beginnings of cold dissuaded me from taking on [...]

November 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Swansea 0 Brighton 1

After this away win, the second such in row, Brighton are in eighth place. Carry on like this and we will be in the Europa League. The fans are grounded enough to confine their hopes to the speedy amassing of 40 points, 25 to go. Next Monday week after the international break – yet another [...]

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Southampton 1

I will remember the game more for the result and journey there than the excitement on the pitch as neither keeper had to save a shot in a dull game. Recently – and not just for reasons of economy – I have preferred to travel ariund  Brighton more by bus than taxi. Brighton’s taxi [...]

October 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

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