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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 Sheffield Wednesday 1

So for the third time in 4 years Brighton are eliminated in the semi-final of the play offs. It may sound like sour grapes but this time it was to a team that finished 3 places and 15 points beneath them. Put another way had Brighton lost 2-0 , not 3-0, at home to Middlesbrough they would have been [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sheffield Wednesday 2 Brighton 0

That Brighton had 4 players seriously injured in one match compounds the injustice that a team 15 points higher than their opponents, and who missed out on automatic promotion by 2 goals difference, should be subject to the vagaries of two matches on level terms. The Seagulls lost Tomer Hemed, [...]

May 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Middlesbrough 1 Brighton1

So Brighton have to satisfy themselves with a play-off place with 89 points- enough for automatic promotion most seasons- the same as Boro but with a goal difference 2 less. No point doing ‘if only’ – over the season, Boro had a perfectly good goal disallowed in their penultimate [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Derby 1

Automatic promotion is getting simpler: Brighton must win their final game at Middlesbrough. Going into the Derby game a win and a draw at Middlesbrough would have sufficed, but now only the victory. Nothing could be resolved yesterday though Burnley’s 0ne-nil win over QPR meant they had [...]

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

SUSSEX CCC LUNCH

Yesterday I  attended the inaugural lunch of the Sussex Cricket Foundation Appeal. I have attended many such lunches for over 30 years and the format of welcome/comic speech/q & a/ games/ raffle/auction has little changed. It has the advantage of raising money for the Appeal but the [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

An Evening of Magic

This year Sussex CCC does not have a cricketer as beneficiary but rather its charity the Sussex Charitable Foundation.  David Bowden who is active in both the Cricket and  SCF and a talented magician to boot organised an evening of magic at the Hove Ground last night for the SCF to which I was [...]

April 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 4 QPR 0

Brighton’s season can be divided into 3 distinct seasons. We began with a long unbeaten run but won every game by the odd goal; we went through a bad run of nine games without a win which coincided with numerous injuries; a final spell in which we are scoring freely. Brighton have now scored [...]

April 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

No I’m not talking about Fulham’s season but Robert Tickler’s dog, who won four on the trot before he acquired him, has yet to win for his new master. Last night at Hove he finished third. When I met Ted Dexter in Nice I asked him about greyhounds of which he owned several  and [...]

April 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice 3 Rennes 0

It was very kind of Michel di Vacri to organise a trip to the Allianz Riviera stadium to see the key clash between Nice lying sixth and Rennes fourth but only one point spearmint them. The third Champions League place is up for grabs with Olympique Lyon second and Monaco currently third also in the [...]

April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

An evening with Ted Dexter

When Bob Tickler called me to say he was having  dinner with Ted Dexter in Nice and would I like to join them I virtually set off for Gatwick straightway. Ted Dexter: the debonair, swashbuckling batsman that put the West Indian attack of Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith to the sword for an [...]

April 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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