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Tag: Brighton & Hove Albion

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Economic Theory explained by Football – The Concept of Marginal Gains

20 Dec 2015
Just down the road, 2 1/2 hours before Lewes kick off in their game against Farnborough, The Football League Championship's two clubs go head to head.  Brighton & Hove Albion…
Lewes FC…

Everybody needs good neighbours

19 Jul 201520 Jul 2015
Having a professional club just five miles down the road often appears to be a bad thing for a Non-League club.  You have to make the best of the situation…
Lewes FC…

We can see you sneaking out

13 Nov 201413 Nov 2014
Come on, we've all done it.  Assumed that nothing will happen if we sneak out a few minutes early to beat the traffic or get to the train station.  Later…
nPower Championship

Seagulls brought down to earth by busy Boro

19 Oct 2014
This week has once again seen the cost of watching the beautiful game hit the headlines with the release of the BBC's annual cost of watching football survey.  Like last…
Lewes FC…

Don’t believe the Hyypia

6 Jul 20145 Jul 2014
It's always nice to build up to a climax in your season, knowing that those cold Tuesday night away trips to the corners of Suffolk when the last train leaves…
Lewes FC…

Sell out!

18 Jul 201222 Jul 2012
For most Non League sides the difference between success and failure in a season can be found in their pre-season calendar.  One or two big name friendlies can add anything…
Non league football…

Twenty four years of hurt

15 Jul 201217 Jul 2012
One of my ancestors, Thomas Fuller, was the first person recorded as saying "It is always darkest before the dawn" in his legendary book A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the…
FA Cup

Good old Sussex by the Sea

20 Feb 2012
Danny Last may have put away the computer keyboard from European Football Weekends but that doesn't mean he has also filed the old Polaroid in the bin too.  Yesterday he…
FA Cup…

500 Reasons to love football

8 Jan 201216 Jan 2012
If you have been living in North Korea recently then you will have missed the launch of 500 Reasons to Love Football back in December.  The original brainchild of the…
Barclaycard Premier League

Turning Pro

6 Aug 2011
Last week I attended my first ever game as a "professional" photographer at Brighton & Hove Albion v Tottenham Hotspur at The American Express Community Stadium.  I thoroughly enjoyed the…
Barclaycard Premier League

Brighton in full Bloom

31 Jul 20113 Aug 2011
I felt a bit like a wedding crasher.  You know those chaps who sniff out a free party, with free drink and free women revelling on other people's joy without…
Non league football…

Camulodnum accipiatur primum….

26 Apr 201126 Apr 2011
First we take Colchester....then we take Sudbury.  Not my words, or those of Leonard Cohen but actually Boudica in AD61 when she attacked the Roman garrison and capital of Britain,…

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