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Hurzeler 'has been a revelation'
Hurzeler 'has been a revelation'

BBC News

time29-05-2025

  • General
  • BBC News

Hurzeler 'has been a revelation'

Former Brighton player Warren Aspinall believes head coach Fabian Hurzeler has passed his first Premier League season 'with flying colours'. The 32-year-old is the league's youngest permanent manager and behind Chelsea, named on average the second youngest squad in the division. "I think he's been a revelation, at the age he is to come to a different country and a different league," Aspinall told BBC Radio Sussex's 'Albion Unlimited' podcast."First time in the Premier League - he doesn't know the pace of the league but he soon found out. He's come to a different country with a different culture. Lots of things going on and he didn't have many background staff with him to start off with."We've had little dips and things and I think the big dip for me was losing in the FA Cup when we lost 4-3 on penalties [to Nottingham Forest in the quarter-final] and that deflated us quite a lot."So it was a tough season for him but he's come out with flying colours."Listen to the full chat here

🎧 'No sulkers' at Brighton
🎧 'No sulkers' at Brighton

BBC News

time21-05-2025

  • Sport
  • BBC News

🎧 'No sulkers' at Brighton

On the latest episode of Albion Unlimited, former Brighton players Guy Butters and Warren Aspinall discuss the team spirit at the club and impact of the have had more goal involvements via substitutes than any other team in the Premier League this season (21).Former defender Butters said: "When you are on the bench you're literally chomping to get on. You want to get on there and prove what you can do. Some players come on and sulk - I don't see that at Brighton - I see them all wanting to go on there and get in the box."You're always going to have certain personalities that clash in every single squad but this squad that we've got now, you haven't got many sulkers in there, it doesn't seem to have too many of those sort of players in there. That could go down as well to the scouting group, the people that do their homework on what a player is like not only on the pitch but away from it as well."Aspinall added: "We used to have a great team spirit, even if you weren't in the team. What I see now in this Brighton side is we've got no sulkers. We've got nobody thinking 'I'm on the bench, I'm sulking because I'm not playing'. Or someone going on there and not passing, waving their hand up in the air when they don't get the ball. I've not seen that for the last few months."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds

'I don't sense excitement for a European push'
'I don't sense excitement for a European push'

BBC News

time15-05-2025

  • Sport
  • BBC News

'I don't sense excitement for a European push'

Brighton's win over Wolves left them firmly in the race for European football with two games to along with Brentford and Bournemouth, and to a lesser extent Fulham, are all vying for eighth spot which might be journalist Brian Owen, who joined BBC Radio Sussex's Johnny Cantor on the Albion Unlimited podcast said there is less enthusiasm than in recent seasons when pushing to secure European football."I don't sense a great deal of excitement about the possibility of making it to Europe," he said."I don't know if it's because their form has been up and down. I don't know if it's because they've been there before and it was Europa League and this could be Conference League or because the team that can snatch it up is Crystal Palace [if they win the FA Cup final]. "I don't know what is, but I don't sense excitement for a European push like there was two years ago, but we still think they're in for a chance."Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds

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