Oh dear Tommy Elphick!

A cracking first half at Withdean on Saturday saw Albion share 4 goals with Southend, but it was the shrimpers who came out on top with a cracking goal scored by some big annoying bastard!

Thank goodness for Nicky Forster, who netted twice for the second time in 7 days, taking him to the top of the League 1 scoring charts. Without him, Albion would have 0 points….

The first half was a stormer, Southend going ahead twice only to be pegged back by the 36 year old. It’s mental really to think he’s 36, when he’s one of the quickest players in the squad. Perhaps that says more about the rest of the jokers? Or perhaps it suggests he’s on steroids.

One player who certainly hasn’t got any pace is Tommy Elphick, who got what can only be described as a public bollocking for allowing big annoying bastard to run half the length of the pitch in the 92nd minute. Unchallenged, he slotted the ball past Kuipers into the far corner, and persuaded the majority of the South Stand to leave their seats.This was after he’d failed to make two defensive headers that would surely have meant a 3rd win on the bounce for us.

Frustratingly, Albion had battered Southend in the second half – Elliot Bennett hit the bar, Forster was denied a hat-trick by Mildenhall in goal, but when Albion through on Craig Davies and Gary Hart late on, you knew the chances of finding a third were slim.

Still, Glenn Murray is back in the frame now, I wonder if he can be bothered to play for us again. Or if he’s had Dean White’s knob removed from his arse yet….