No, we haven’t gone totally mad. The Albions pre-season friendly game against Portugese top flight side Portimonense was abandoned following a mass brawl. The Johny foreigners were seemingly less than happy with Ashley Barnes enthusiasm for a tackle, with their forward Ivanildo chasing the forward twenty years before smacking him one. Gus Poyet lead the charge onto [...]

Well, sort of. Following the mind blowing and world changing news that former Alive and Kicking presenter Jamie Theakston was following The Argus on Twitter, you can imagine the delight that spread around We Are Brighton HQ when, at 18.02 on Friday 23 July 2010, we recieved a notification informing us that the serial charity [...]

No, don’t be silly, of course we haven’t re-signed him. Or any other striker who has proved themselves at this level for that matter.
For those of you that are either too young to remember Leon, have strangely selective memory, or have alzheimer’s disease, he’s the bloke who scored the penalty that won the play-off final [...]

There are two major problems with pre-season friendlies. One is that they are usually about as entertaining as re-runs of Crossroads. The other is identifying just who is who owing to the large number of new players on offer. One member of the We Are Brighton team fell foul of the latter point on Saturday [...]

Yesterday saw the WeAreBrighton team take up the opportunity to see the Albion’s glamourous “curtain raiser” friendly against Burgess Hill away. There will be a “Crocs On Tour” entry soon, but in the meantime, here are a few things we learned during the match:
1) We now appreciate the 90 minute break from drinking during regular [...]

No, sadly we’re not talking about Gus adding a spree of new signings on top of the two Argentinians and Matt Sparrow. Instead, we’re talking about our latest ebay purchase.
We don’t want to plagarise the excellent “ebay crap” column in fanzine ‘The Seagull Love Review’, but we feel this deserves a mention:

Who makes these?
Who buys [...]

Right, it’s been a while since we had a “What’s good on youtube?” blog entry, so here’s a bumper edition for you to get your football fix from before our glamourous trip to, er, Burgess Hill next Saturday. Well, that’s assuming nobody has much interest in the final stages of the World Cup anyway….
We’ll start [...]