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BBC News
28-05-2025
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Your Brighton player of the season
We asked you to select your Brighton player of the season from the four candidates chosen by our fan with the poll now closed, we can reveal the winner is... Jan Paul van Hecke!Here's what Scott McCarthy from We Are Brighton, external said about him:Van Hecke has been the one constant at the heart of the defence this season. Rattled through more partners than Henry VIII had wives, yet nothing has fazed him. Will surely succeed Lewis Dunk as captain... presuming he breaks the curse of not leaving within months of winning the club's official player of the year the final poll breakdown
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Sport
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Pick your Brighton player of the season
We asked our Brighton fan contributor for their four candidates for player of the season and you can now select your top one. Carlos BalebaCombines the best bits of Yves Bissouma and Moises Caicedo to be one of the best midfielders in the Premier League. Breaks up attacks. Scores last-minute winners from 35 yards. Even picked up man of the match the first time in his life playing a competitive game at MitomaIt seems to have gone a little under the radar that Mitoma is on for his most prolific campaign in England. He also rejected the Saudi Pro League in January because he wants to play at the highest level possible rather than line his pockets. Can we have an award for moralistic player of the season?Jan Paul van HeckeVan Hecke has been the one constant at the heart of the defence this season. Rattled through more partners than Henry VIII had wives, yet nothing has fazed him. Will surely succeed Lewis Dunk as captain... presuming he breaks the curse of not leaving within months of winning the club's official player of the year WelbeckWelbeck has scored 10 times so far – the same as Mitoma and Joao Pedro. But what makes him a contender for player of the season is how important his goals have been in terms of deciding games. Take them away and the Albion have 10 fewer points, sitting 13th in the mentionAdam Webster came into the starting XI after the 7-0 shambles at the City Ground only because of injuries to every other centre-back. Brighton won six and drew two of their next eight games. When Webster was then injured himself, the Albion's form collapsed. Coincidence? I think your 2024-25 Brighton player of the season from our shortlist hereAnd tell us why you're picking who you are, or why you'd have gone for another player not on the list, here Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton, external
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Sport
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Brighton news: Opinion - Fan writer on transport problems at Amex Stadium
Attendance at Amex Stadium is a hot topic. There were at least 2,000 season ticket seats that went unsold on exchange for the Newcastle game. Looking around the stadium, there were many thousands more empty seats. Those who do show up are leaving early in increasing numbers. The ground is now often half empty by the time the final whistle blows. Even Fabian Hurzeler spoke about it following the 3-2 win over West Ham. On that occasion, those who left early missed Albion goals in the 89th and 93rd minutes. Brighton are still in the race for European football next season - so why are so many season ticket-holders staying away or leaving early? The answer lies in transport. The Amex relies on public transport. For Saturday games, the train service tends to be good. But on a Sunday or midweek, it turns into carnage. This is obviously an issue when TV demands butcher the fixture list. Many people are evidently deciding the chaos is not worth the bother. I live 12 miles from Amex Stadium. I have made it home from watching England at Wembley this season - 88 miles away - faster than getting back from some Albion games. Roadworks currently taking place on the A27 just before Falmer are admittedly not helping. Some fans reported getting on a Park & Ride bus in Portslade at 1pm and only making it into their seat at 2.37pm on Sunday. A 7.7 mile journey taking 97 minutes and meaning they missed the opening half hour of the game. Yet even when the A27 is fully open again, the problems with public transport will remain. It feels at times like the club are unaware of quite how bad it can be. Maybe if Hurzeler and the Albion decision-makers who seem perplexed by the early leavers and no-shows tried the time-consuming and arduous journey themselves after a home game, they would better understand why people find it off-putting enough to dictate whether they attend games or not. Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton, external
BBC News
29-04-2025
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180 seconds... was it season-defining?
You can boil an egg in 180 seconds. You can pour a perfect pint of a well-known black stout from Ireland in 180 seconds. But can you turn around a football season which was heading off the rails in 180 seconds?Brighton will be hoping so. With 89 minutes on the clock at the Amex on Saturday, plenty of Albion fans who had not walked out when West Ham went 2-1 ahead six minutes earlier were preparing to go into Potter was getting ready to celebrate the Hammers ending their six-game winless seemed set to be the ultimate blow for those Seagulls supporters still unable to forgive Potter for walking out to join Chelsea in September 2022, followed by comments like "If I wanted an easy life, I would have stayed at Brighton."Doctor Brighton had cured another opposition's ailing form. The Albion meanwhile were about to make it seven games of their own without victory. Leaving any hope of European football hanging by the thinnest of was until everything changed. In 180 seconds. Kaoru Mitoma equalised and Carlos Baleba struck a 93rd minute rocket as the Albion somehow staged an epic left Potter as the crestfallen one, talking in a madcap post-match press conference about swearing and not being a has characterised Brighton under Fabian Hurzeler this season is the way they go on lengthy good runs of form and lengthy bad runs of form. One incident or performance has often determined what happens for the next five or six trait has been most evident over the past two months. Lose 7-0. Win six in a row. Get knocked out the FA Cup. Don't win again for another six in a is why what happened against West Ham has the potential to be season-defining. Is it the spark the Albion need to go on a run of results over the final four games and qualify for Europe? Fingers more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton, external
BBC News
22-04-2025
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Can anyone meet Brighton's standards?
Tony Bloom famously does not go in the director's box at Brentford because of a falling out he had with Bees owner Matthew Benham 20 years of Bloom celebrating victories at Gtech Community Stadium have gone viral in the past because no other Premier League chairman joins supporters on the is brilliant when things are going well, but maybe not so much when the Albion sink - as was the case on Saturday, when Bloom found himself sat in the middle of an away end in which a lot of people could be clearly heard singing: "You don't know what you're doing" at manager Fabian value their reputation as the best run club in English football so much that when there has been dissent from the terraces before, they have gone out of their way to tell the media it was only a "small minority" of "doom and gloom" spin will not work this time 1,600 Albion fans could buy tickets for Brentford. Those inside the Gtech were at the top of the loyalty points scheme and the most dedicated Seagulls supporters around - and enough of them turned for it to warrant mentioning in every match report about the seems a bit mad because Brighton are10th in the Premier League. If they end the season there, it would be the third highest finish in the club's history. It is a position every fan would have bitten your arm off for... before problem is Roberto de Zerbi. He tore up the rule book and showed European qualification was possible for Brighton - and that was before a £200m spending Albion supporter expects a top-six finish every season, but managers are now being judged against what De Zerbi did. The standards have been question is can Hurzeler - or anyone else for that matter - meet them? And if they cannot, does that mean they don't know what they're doing?Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton, external
