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 for us, before his career went rapidly downhill after falling out with Mark McGhee and various managers at other clubs after that including Swansea, McDons, Hamilton Acidemicals and some shitty Greek outfit. After leaving the Albion, he made some rather nasty remarks about our tiny club, small fanbase and crap facilities.

Anyway, Leon has, somewhat bizarrely, taken the decision to follow in the footsteps of Albion greats Paul Camillin, Martin Perry and “Uncle Buck”, by having his own North Stand Chat thread designed with the sole purpose of allowing fans to ask questions.

The thread can be found here. We’re not sure, but it seems to be either an attempt at “kissing and making up” with the Brighton fans that once adored him, or a pretty unorthadox tactic to boost the sales of his soon to be released biography.

It may not be an autobiography he’s plugging, but that doesn’t mean he’s not capable of writing English. Frankly, we’re impressed that a footballer can differentiate between “to” and “too”. And although we’re not certain it’s the real Leon Knight, the NSC administrator is apparently convinced, having seemingly had Leon Skype him. There’s a man you’d want to stumble across on chat roulette!

We’ve collected a few highlights from the thread (it’s currently longer than the Bible, and still growing). However, at the moment we’re struggling to find all of Leon’s comments in amongst all the responses of “are you real?” “Leon you’re a tw*t” and “Leon I love you” (delete as appropriate). But there are some “fascinating” revelations in there, including the following:

• “i have never thought im jermain defoe in league 1 im leon knight in league 1 i would never wanna be jermain defoe that i can promise u “
• He’s not trying to be Peter Ward either.
• He never drove to training in a tractor.
• “yeah mate I have 3 sisters”
• Kerry Mayo ISN’T the greatest player he’s ever played with.
• ” i liked the way darren currie played “
• “nah mate im a million per cent straight
  2 kids and a wife pal “
• “me and chippy really didnt get on so i really could not care less about what he thinks “
• ” i hate palace “
• “yes i have a punch up with charlie oatway one training session but i love charlie we was both heated and we squared up and he through the 1st punch \ slap and then i threw and few punches back then it got broke up and then we kissed and made up”
• “gazza and me dont know one another “

Hopefully there’ll be lots more insights to come! (and some proper striker transfer news as well!)

Leon’s finest moment for the club: