Sussex win and ciao de Zerbi

The real sporting excitement in Brighton and Hove yesterday was not at the Amex where fans said goodbye to Roberto de Zerbi but at the county ground where Sussex CCC won a low scoring thriller by 21 runs over Yorkshire.

At tea, Yorkshire only needed 25 runs with Adam Lyth and Revis installed at the crease but a final spell of Ollie Robinson and fine fielding suddenly made that 25 a daunting task and Sussex won.

We are now back on top of Division Two and next Friday play second placed Middlesex at Lords.

Brighton lost 0-2 to Manchester United but the main event was the announcement of De Zerbi’s departure.

Was he pushed or did he jump?

Difficult to say but with some of Europe’s giants – Juventus , AC Milan, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and quite possibly Manchester United and Chelsea ready to appoint there will be vacancies.

Tony Bloom would not have appreciated de Zerbi’s comments about alignment of interest, nor his cancelling of the rest of his contract, depriving Brighton of compensation.

My feeling is that a club has come in for de Zerbi.

His legacy is the Europa League campaign but he was never consistent in selection.

Kieran McKenna of Ipswich seems to be in pole position and Tony Bloom will appreciate how much McKenna improves and develops players.

There is no certainty however that Mckenna would want to leave Ipswich.

Finally congratulations to another Sussex team
Crawley who won their play off match versus Wigan to gain promotion to
division one. .