It’s tempting to make this a copy and paste job! Doncaster, Forest, Peterborough and now Leicester - all seen off by late heroics from Will Buckley, who looks on course to be the most popular player we’ve had since Zamora! Funny really, the song goes “William Buckley runs down the wing for me” and could be heard in virtually every pub on Saturday night, but it’s up front he’s doing the business at the moment!!
It was absolutely freezing at the Amex, but Buckley’s strike more than made up for it! Special mention too to Neil Danns, who became the third player of the afternoon to be sent off (after Beckford and Sparrow) and decided to walk around the pitch in front of the North Stand. The rendition of “PALACE REJECT” was somewhat inevitable, and hugely satisfying.
A great win for Albion then, and although we stay 10th, with 17 games to go we’re 2 points off the play-offs, and only 7 off the unlikely heights of the automatic promotion spots! Keep this form up - Buckley in particular - and who knows where we might finish!!
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Albion have announced ticket details for the league cup game against Liverpool at Anfield. Basically, you’re laughing as long as you’ve been to an away game this season and have a season ticket at The Amex.
Albion fans have been allocated approximately 6,000 tickets for this game, and they will be available to supporters with 1,140 loyalty points or more from 6pm on Friday 3rd February - online only.
From 9am on Monday 6th February these tickets will also be available via the ticketline - 0844 327 1901 - or in person at the ticket office at the Amex.
Tickets will be available to supporters with:
1,110 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Tuesday 7th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Wednesday 8th February.
1,090 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Wednesday 8th February - online only- and other methods from 9am on Thursday 9th February.
1,050 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Thursday 9th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Friday 10th February.
1,000 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Friday 10th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Saturday 11th February.
200 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Sunday 12th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Monday 13th February.
100 loyalty points or more via all three methods from 12pm on Monday 13th February.
50 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Monday 13th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Tuesday 14th February.
10 loyalty points or more from 5pm on Tuesday 14th February - online only - and other methods from 9am on Wednesday 15th February.
Any tickets still remaining will be available to anyone registered on the club’s database from 12pm on Thursday 16th February, but only in person at the ticket office located at the Amex.
Get them while they’re hot! Shame about the RUBBISH kick off time (getting home on a Sunday evening is a nightmare, especially by train, but we better get used to it if we’ve got Premiership aspirations!) but the TV money should make out. Let’s hope for another FA Cup upset - and don’t forget, last time we beat Newcastle and Liverpool in the competition, we went to Wembley!!
The Albion look to continue their unbeaten start to 2012 with the visit of pre-season promotion favourites Leicester City to The Amex. Despite bringing in a raft of quality players with a bit of a transfer splurge in the summer, they sit three points behind us in the nPower Championship table having dispensed with Sven Sven Goran Eriksson for footballing reasons rather than sexual early into the season and replaced him with Nigel Pearson. Pearson has already been to The Amex once this season when his Hull side came away with a 0-0 draw - a game memorable for it being the last time Albion fans were treated to a sight rarer than rocking horse droppings as Vicente was on the pitch. It will be another tough examination for Gus Poyet’s improving side. Read the rest of this entry »
…just as we predicted on WeAreBrighton.com 24 hours before kick off.
To be honest, it was a dire game. There was little in the way of goal mouth action, and there were few talking points after all the pre-match hype other than the two goals.
It was two penalties decided the game. Both looked soft if we’re honest, but we can’t really complain - for once, we’re grateful things evened things out.
If you pardon the cliché, at the end of the day, we’re 4 points clear of Palace, and unbeaten in 2012. Let’s keep that run going at home to Leicester on Saturday!!
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Brighton vs Crystal Palace is one of the biggest fixtures of the season for both clubs. Defeat for either set of fans is like your team losing in a cup semi-final with a day out at Wembley snatched away with the last kick….
Anyway, we’re opening up our phoneline to capture fan reaction before, during and after the game. Fans from either club are welcome to leave messages.Your contributions will be put together and released as a podcast.
All you need to do is…
Call 0208 123 1062
and leave your message after the beep. Calls are charged at local rates and are likely to be free depending on your mobile phone call plan.
Colourful language is permitted although expect it to be censored with animal noised for comical effect.
The winning badge with 29% of the vote was submitted by Warren…
It narrowly beat out a toilet splattered in excrement.
Winning designer Warren had this to say
“I’m delighted that the voters have recognised my accurate portrayal of the seats to fan ratio at Selhurst Park. I can’t wait for the Crystal Palace board to give it the final approval. It will look lovely erected on the main stand - not that we really need a main stand. In reality, we could fit everyone who comes to games into a large gazebo”
Brighton fans will be hoping that the new badge does not prove to be the pick-me-up that Palace were looking for following their Carling Cup Semi-Final heartbreak. #ffsmurray
27th September. FFSMurray. Revenge. Need we say more?
A bit of a video special for this one - as it’s a special occasion.
Who are Crystal Palace?
Let’s be honest here, you don’t need an introduction do you?
Palace vs Brighton - The History
The two clubs were constantly meeting as we both rose through the football league in the 1970’s. In 1976-77 we met no less than five times in one campaign. With moments such as Brighton manager Alan Mullery flinging a five pound note into a puddle and shouting at some scum “you’re not worth that Palace” before flicking all manner of finger-based salutes at them the rivalry became one of the fiercest in the country. Incredibly, Mullery would somehow end up getting the managers gig with them later in his career. After the so-called “team of the eighties” got relegated from the top flight in 1981, we were regular opponents throughout the 80’s with moments such as Henry Houghton shattering Gerry Ryan’s leg (ending his career in the process) and Boxing Day clashes continuing to stoke the fires of the rivalry both on and off the pitch. With Palace then doing unfortunately well in the top two divisions and the Albion nearly going out of business, we didn’t meet for 14 years. The first game in a generation ended in that 5-0 defeat. A 1-0 win at Selhurst in October 2005 thanks to an Emmerson Boyce own goal (Paul McShane somehow claimed that one, but as he’ll be playing for Palace tomorrow night against us, we’ve conveniently re-written history) gave us short-lived bragging rights, before Jobi McAnuff netted in stoppage time the following month to give Palace a 3-2 victory. The b*stards. They’ve still got the bragging rights of course, after our pitiful collapse on September 27th.
Last time we met?
Who has played for both?
There’s only two connections between the sides currently. Glenn Murray is up front for Palace, and to this day most Brighton fans still don’t know why. Paul McShane signed on loan for Palace earlier this month as cover, and looks set to deputise for the suspended Paddy McCarthy. Let’s hope he can keep his place in Albion folklore, a last minute own goal would be nice!!
Prediction?
Palace don’t concede many at home, but they don’t score many either. Will they be hurting after their Carling Cup exit, or will we face a backlash?
We don’t score many away, but we’re on good form. Will our FA Cup high and our desire for revenge see us victorious? Or will we be knackered and collapse at the death again, as we did on September 27th? Let’s hope not. Anyway, we’ll sit on the fence for this one. 1-1.
It certainly sounds as though Albion are in the mood for revenge anyhow!
Gus Poyet:
“I’m looking for the team to play for the whole 90 minutes because we switched off with ten minutes to go when we played them at the Amex earlier in the season. That was unacceptable and that was one of my most disappointing days as Brighton manager.
“This game is bigger than the Newcastle game because Palace are our biggest rival. Newcastle are a very big Premier League club but they are not our rivals.”
What a gr8 day all round, , buzzing 4 all the players, staff and fans, another great atmosphere, roll on tues against palarse, #bahfc.
On Saturday 25th Febuary from 5pm-9pm, The Funky Fish Club at the New Madeira Hotel will play host to a charity evening in aid of Chestnut Tree House. The event is being organised by Natalie Standing as a thank you for all the help and support they gave her family after they lost their 4 day old daughter, Leah-Anabel, in September last year.
Tickets for the event are £12 and include a welcome drink and a buffet. There will be entertainment on offer as well as an auction full of great items.
Now, a charity event for such a good cause is always worth bringing to your attention, but what makes this one especially of interest to Albion fans is that the auction contains a whole plethora of Brighton and Hove Albion merchandise.
At the event you will be able to bid for the following:
4 BHAFC 1901 club hospitality tickets to include 3 course meal and drinks .
Signed Brighton Hove Albion shirt
BHAFC football shirt signed by the team at the last match at Withdean stadium.
El-Abd (player of the season 2011) signed BHAFC away football shirt
Signed Brighton Hove Albion ball & 2 Amex tickets
There are lots of other great items that have been donated by local companies, you can see the full list here
So if you fancy a different sort of night out that helps raise money for a local children’s hospice, with the chance to come away with a signed Adam El-Abd shirt! Then get yourselves along to the New Madeira Hotel on February 25th.
For more event details and information on how to purchase tickets, head on over to Leah-Anabel.co.uk
As we near the end of the transfer window, rumours have been gathering pace today that Reading have put in a substanital bid of around £3.5 million for Brighton and Hove Albion striker Craig Mackail-Smith.
The Royals have received a massive cash injection by becoming the latest English side to be taking over by a Russian with more money than sense earlier last week and it looks like they mean serious business before January 31st with a cheeky bid for the Albion’s record signing.
Mackail-Smith may have only scored once in his last 19 appearances stretching back to the 3-1 defeat by tomorrows opponents Crystal Palace back in September, but he remains a firm fan favourite for his work rate and frankly he hasn’t been helped by service that, especially away from home, has been beyond dire.
The former Peterborough man signed a four year deal when he moved from London Road in the summer so Gus Poyet would be under no pressure to sell. Although he probably would have expected more than seven goals from such a significant outlay, CMS has shown his class, particularly when tearing Leeds United apart when hitting a brace in the 3-3 draw. Presumably the plan was that Vicente would lay the chances on a plate and he would bang them in, but with the Spanish playmaker seemingly having a phobia of playing and having taken a real liking to the physio room, that just hasn’t happened.
It remains to be seen if £3.5m is enough to prize when of our biggest assets away, especially with Poyet saying that he doesn’t want to sell anyone this window in the wake of AFC Bournemouth’s cheeky little bid for Will Hoskins. If the striker does go though then, coupled with Craig Noone’s rumoured departure to Cardiff City, that would be the two stand out players so far in our WeAreBrighton.com Player of the Month Polls sold in the window - and it is probably far too late to scout out replacements from the flesh
That is of course unless Albion pull off one of the transfer coups of the year in bringing Michael Owen down south - although he’d probably take the Vicente approach and ensure the medical team are earning their crust. Whatever happens, it looks like we’re in for an interesting 24 hours
It’s tempting to make this a copy and paste job! Doncaster, Forest, Peterborough and now Leicester - all seen off by late heroics from Will Buckley, who looks on course to be the most popular player we’ve had since Zamora! Funny really, the song goes “William Buckley runs down the wing for me” and could be heard in virtually every pub on Saturday night, but it’s up front he’s doing the business at the moment!!
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The Albion look to continue their unbeaten start to 2012 with the visit of pre-season promotion favourites Leicester City to The Amex. Despite bringing in a raft of quality players with a bit of a transfer splurge in the summer, they sit three points behind us in the nPower Championship table having dispensed with Sven Sven Goran Eriksson for footballing reasons rather than sexual early into the season and replaced him with Nigel Pearson. Pearson has already been to The Amex once this season when his Hull side came away with a 0-0 draw - a game memorable for it being the last time Albion fans were treated to a sight rarer than rocking horse droppings as Vicente was on the pitch. It will be another tough examination for Gus Poyet’s improving side. 
Brighton vs Crystal Palace is one of the biggest fixtures of the season for both clubs. Defeat for either set of fans is like your team losing in a cup semi-final with a day out at Wembley snatched away with the last kick….
All you need to do is…
On Saturday 25th Febuary from 5pm-9pm, The Funky Fish Club at the New Madeira Hotel will play host to a charity evening in aid of 
The Royals have received a massive cash injection by becoming the latest English side to be taking over by a Russian with more money than sense earlier last week and it looks like they mean serious business before January 31st with a cheeky bid for the Albion’s record signing.
