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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

Albion 2 Arsenal 3

A record crowd of 30,250 witnessed a first half when the Seagulls were blown away by the pace and passing of the Arsenal. However we regrouped at half time and made a fist of it. Speaking to John Pargiter who wanted some betting tips I have to be disloyal and say Arsenal to win to nil was the stand [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Albion assessed

There were extraordinary similarities between our game and Fulham’s. Both ended 3-2, all six goals came from wonderful strikes from outside the box and both  teams after dominating play were hanging in and on at the end. This was Brighton’s best game of the season and without Lewis [...]

January 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Albion assessed

We are all delighted with the start of Chris Hughton. Whereas Sami Hyppia had rather inflexible ideas about how his team should play but the group did not respond, Chris is more pragmatic basing his ideas on the potential of the players. He is very much a players’ manager. We are now unbeaten [...]

January 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton draw Arsenal in dream tie

Try telling a Brighton fan that there is no magic in the FA Cup as the city is agog at the prospect with the visit of the mighty Gunners. Outside the Seagulls, Chelsea and Arsenal are the two most supported clubs here so some Gunners will not have far to travel. Every month or so I have lunch with [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hyppia resigns

Managers rarely resign as to do so waives their claim for compensation so if Sami Hyppia did in fact resign- as seems the case – this is a honourable act. Opinion is still divided as to whether he is responsible for the team’s decline or this is an inevitable product of selling our best [...]

December 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Millwall 1

To apply an old cliché: there was more happening off the pitch than on it. At the away end Millwall fans were ripping up seats and trying to attack a small group of Brighton  fans in the next section. Hyppia was subject to abuse and, by the end, resounding cries to go. One fan was ejected for [...]

December 13, 2014 // 1 Comment

Steeplechasing v flat

With the Albion away at Derby it was an opportunity on a cold but clear Sussex day to watch the steeplechasing on channel 4. I have always preferred that to the flat: the jumps provide an extra dimension; the bravery of the riders in one of the most dangerous particapating sports is something to [...]

December 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Fulham 2

So the honours went to Alan Tanner who I have to say behaved most graciously and thought a draw would be a fairer result. The generous comments made about their former club by Alan Mullery, David Stockdale and Aaron Hughes in the programme epitomised the good spirit in which the game was played. I [...]

November 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Dave Whelan’s remarks

Brighton has one of the biggest Jewish communities outside the big cities and the 1901 club where I sit has many Jewish supporters. So we have been discussing Dave Whelan’s much publicised comments. My initial reaction was that they were highly offensive. Racial stereotyping was a feature of [...]

November 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

The travails of a football supporter

Yesterday I had lunch with a Arsenal fanatic and resident of Hove. He was exasperated by the stubbornness of Arsene Wenger. Their young defender Calum Chambers was taken part by the Anderkecht winger resulting in 3 goals conceded. The following game against Swansea a further 2 late goals were [...]

November 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

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