Articles by Ivan Conway

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

Mac Allister & Farbrace

The title of my post sounds like a firm of solicitors. In fact both are connected to Sussex sport. I am delighted for Mac Allister who plays a different role as foil to Lionel Messi for Argentina. At Brighton he plays up the field as we have no striker who can score. He is a beautiful striker of [...]

December 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Manchester City 3 Brighton 1

Brighton have lost their last six visits to Manchester City so not even John Pargiter would have backed them yesterday. As it happened Roberto de Zerbi set up the team well with asphyxiating man to man marking. Inevitably Erling Haarland scored two first half goals making his tally this term so far [...]

October 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Nottingham Forest 0

Brighton have yet to record a victory under Roberto de Zerbi and only scored in his first game against Liverpool. It is not critical as we are still in the top half of the table but concerning. Much is made of De Zerbi inheriting a team with good values and foundations but the goal-scoring problem [...]

October 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Spurs 1

This was very much an Italian day at the Amex. Both sets of fans sported the Italian flag: Brighton to welcome new beach coach Roberto de Zerbi to the Amex, Spurs to show gratitude for the improvement under Antonio Conte. There was also a minute’ s silence as Spurs fitness coach Gian Piero [...]

October 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Robin Marlar

I was sad to hear of the passing of Robin Marlar whom I met just 2 weeks ago at Ted Dexter’s memorial. Most people cannot manage one successful career but Robin succeeded in three: distinguished cricketer for Sussex; Times cricket correspondent; recruitment consultant. In all three he was a [...]

October 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Brighton appoint De Zerbi

It was typical that Brighton appointed a Head Coach to replace Graham Potter who, like Potter at the time of his appointment, is largely unknown. Roberto de Zerbi earned his reputation at Sassuolo – like Brighton a small town club – who finished eighth 2 consecutive seasons and with a [...]

September 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tribute to Ted Dexter

Yesterday I attended a MCC tribute in the Long Room at Lords to Ted Dexter. I felt honoured to be invited as – although I had got to know Ted well these past few years and his charming wife Sue too in Nice- I had not expected to be invited to such a gathering of cricketing luminaries. I [...]

September 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks and Seagulls falter

Yesterday I went to Hove for the semi final of the Royal London Cup between Sussex Sharks and Lancashire Lightning. Lancashire won the toss and surprisingly elected to bat. It seemed a strange decision as there is moisture in the air off the sea at Hove in the morning which favours the bowling [...]

August 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks and Seagulls triumph

It was a notable week for both the Seagulls and Sussex Sharks. The Seagulls maintained their unbeaten record over West Ham with a 2-0 win at the London Stadium. I would like to focus on club captain Lewis Dunk. A one-club man, many regard him as a better defender than Harry McGuire or Tyrone [...]

August 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Good weekend for Brighton sport

Over the weekend I went to the Amex to watch Brighton play Newcastle and then on to see Sussex Surrey in the Royal London 50 over competition. I was apprehensive before Newcastle. Dan Ashworth has moved from Brighton to Newcastle as football director and would have intel on us. Newcastle under [...]

August 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]