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About Ivan Conway

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

Sussex Sharks lose again and the state of the T20

Sussex Sharks lost their third successive victory on Sunday afternoon after an encouraging victory at the Oval 10 days ago. Though this dismal run is of great concern to Sussex and their supporters, I thought the general cricketing readership of The Rust might be more interested in my assessment [...]

June 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton & Sussex CCC assessed

No doubt about it – this has been Brighton HAFC ‘s most successful season in our history finishing sixth and qualifying for the Europa League. The achievement is all the more remarkable for the departure of key personnel on and off the pitch. Much credit must go to owner Tony Bloom and his [...]

June 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

Bliss: Sussex v Glamorgan (3rd day)

Sometimes in life you are exactly where you want to be and yesterday it was at the County Ground Hove. In the week I had two tiring and trying trips to London and just wanted a relaxing day at the cricket in the sun with a pint of Harvey’s. It mattered not that Glamorgan fought back – with [...]

May 21, 2023 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Glamorgan (1st day)

With the sun out and the icy wintry wind of late turning into a cooler breeze where better to be than at Hove for the first day of the county championship? It was that hot that sun burn warnings were broadcast with sun lotion stations. If the weather was not enticing enough, four classy Test class [...]

May 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

Arsenal 0 Brighton 3

Seven years ago – the year Brighton were promoted to the Premiership – Southampton played a pre-season friendly at the Amex and outplayed us. It was a strong Saints side managed by Ronald Koeman with the likes of Virgil van Dyck, Sadoi Mané, Luke Shaw, Morgan Schneiderlin, Nathaniel [...]

May 15, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Everton 5

It does not often happen that a side has 78% of the possession and a corner count of 15 to 1 but finishes up at the wrong end of a 5 goal thrashing but that was the fate of Brighton last night. In fairness Everton played extremely well – from keeper Jordan Pickford who defied a potential [...]

May 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton & Sussex Update

When Alexis Mac Alister converted a penalty in the 98th minute to win against Manchester United last Thursday I suspect the reaction was one of sweet revenge as a penalty shoot out in the semi-final of the FA Cup on April 24th cost Brighton the chance of a final. Few would then thought and – [...]

May 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 6 Wolves 0

The remarkable thing about this thrashing of Wolves is that it was achieved in the absence of arguably Brighton’s three best players – Mitoma, Caicedo and Mac Alister – and young tyro forward Evan Ferguson was injured. That is the strength of Brighton; the ability to adapt. These [...]

April 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 3 Liverpool 0

After this resounding win over Liverpool the story – like Fulham’s – will be focussed on the demise of the Reds and the future of Jurgen Klopp which is unfair as the Seagulls played so well. From the start they took the game to Liverpool, pinning them down in their half. However [...]

January 15, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Arsenal 4

Brighton were good but league leaders Arsenal better. The Seagulls had World Cup winner Alex Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo absent – as well as defenders Adam Webster and Joel Veltman – and it showed. We have a stronger squad these days but you want to field your best team against such [...]

January 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

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