Young Viktor Gyökeres in action for Brighton against his future employer IT WAS SAID Coventry City banked a club-record £17.5million with a further £3.5m in add-ons (and Albion earned a decent sell…

Young Viktor Gyökeres in action for Brighton against his future employer IT WAS SAID Coventry City banked a club-record £17.5million with a further £3.5m in add-ons (and Albion earned a decent sell…

JESSE LINGARD is now in his 30s and plying his trade in Brazil but Oscar Garcia’s Brighton gave the player invaluable experience in the second tier of English football before he became a Manchester…

JESSE LINGARD is now in his 30s and plying his trade in Brazil but Oscar Garcia’s Brighton gave the player invaluable experience in the second tier of English football before he became a Manchester…

VIKTOR GYÖKERES is certainly right up there in Brighton’s short list of ‘ones that got away’. The striker left the Seagulls for Coventry in a £1m deal, went on to score almost a goal a game over tw…

VIKTOR GYÖKERES is certainly right up there in Brighton’s short list of ‘ones that got away’. The striker left the Seagulls for Coventry in a £1m deal, went on to score almost a goal a game over tw…

A YEAR AGO Facundo Buonanotte thought he’d made a dream move – a season-long loan from Brighton to Chelsea (reportedly for a £2m fee). He had been on the brink of a similar temporary move to Leeds …

A YEAR AGO Facundo Buonanotte thought he’d made a dream move – a season-long loan from Brighton to Chelsea (reportedly for a £2m fee). He had been on the brink of a similar temporary move to Leeds …

ALAN CURBISHLEY, a 1988 promotion winner with third tier Brighton, five years earlier had a watching brief as an unused sub for Aston Villa in a top-flight 0-0 draw with the relegation-bound Seagul…

THE WORLD CUP became something of a centre-back marketplace for Brighton, but what about the one that got away: Leo Østigård of Norway. Østigård was only ever on the fringe of Albion’s first team a…

THE WORLD CUP became something of a centre-back marketplace for Brighton, but what about the one that got away: Leo Østigård of Norway. Østigård was only ever on the fringe of Albion’s first team a…

I WAS SAD to learn of the recent death of George Ley, a classy left-back who brought higher level experience to newly-promoted Brighton in September 1972. Ley, who died in a Tiverton, Devon, nursin…

ONE-TIME Manchester United youth Nehemiah Oriola has been earning rave reviews with Brighton’s under 21s in the season just ending. The diminutive teenager has got well into double figures scoring …

ONE-TIME Manchester United youth Nehemiah Oriola has been earning rave reviews with Brighton’s under 21s in the season just ending. The diminutive teenager has got well into double figures scoring …

LEFT-SIDED midfielder Ian Westlake almost pushed a buoyant Albion into the third-tier play-offs when on loan from Leeds United. He scored twice in 11 games for Dean Wilkins’ Seagulls in the spring …

LEFT-SIDED midfielder Ian Westlake almost pushed a buoyant Albion into the third-tier play-offs when on loan from Leeds United. He scored twice in 11 games for Dean Wilkins’ Seagulls in the spring …

CHRIS IWELUMO was a promotion-winner with Brighton and Wolves, helping the Seagulls to third tier play-off final success in 2004 and scoring 14 league goals when the Molineux side won the Champions…

CHRIS IWELUMO was a promotion-winner with Brighton and Wolves, helping the Seagulls to third tier play-off final success in 2004 and scoring 14 league goals when the Molineux side won the Champions…

THE KIWI who Brighton & Hove Albion nurtured as a teenager went on to find his goalscoring feet in the Premier League although a big money move to Newcastle United didn’t quite pan out as he wa…

THE KIWI who Brighton & Hove Albion nurtured as a teenager went on to find his goalscoring feet in the Premier League although a big money move to Newcastle United didn’t quite pan out as he wa…

LEVI COLWILL had a turbulent beginning to his season-long loan at Brighton but emerged grateful for the experience which developed his undoubted talent as a ball-playing defender. After only one tr…

LEVI COLWILL had a turbulent beginning to his season-long loan at Brighton but emerged grateful for the experience which developed his undoubted talent as a ball-playing defender. After only one tr…

GERRY ARMSTRONG was a raw youngster not long over from Ireland when he was part of a Spurs team relegated from the top division. “We were playing poorly. People kept telling us we were too good to …

GERRY ARMSTRONG was a raw youngster not long over from Ireland when he was part of a Spurs team relegated from the top division. “We were playing poorly. People kept telling us we were too good to …

PINT-SIZED Scouser Eric Potts went from a flying owl to a soaring seagull back in the 1970s. Ginger-headed Potts caught the eye in more ways than one and, after he’d put in a man-of-the-match perfo…

PINT-SIZED Scouser Eric Potts went from a flying owl to a soaring seagull back in the 1970s. Ginger-headed Potts caught the eye in more ways than one and, after he’d put in a man-of-the-match perfo…

IT’S HARDLY surprising that there are numerous tales to tell from Jimmy Case’s illustrious football career, many of which he told in his autobiography, Hard Case. Following on from my recent blog p…

IT’S HARDLY surprising that there are numerous tales to tell from Jimmy Case’s illustrious football career, many of which he told in his autobiography, Hard Case. Following on from my recent blog p…

PROLIFIC goalscorer Neil Martin was once considered to be one of the finest headers of a ball in football. A Scottish international who was among an elite group to net 100 goals in both the Scottis…

PROLIFIC goalscorer Neil Martin was once considered to be one of the finest headers of a ball in football. A Scottish international who was among an elite group to net 100 goals in both the Scottis…

BEN WHITE must be one of the best and most successful examples of the way present-day Brighton have evolved. Picked up for nothing as a teenager after being discarded by Southampton, White’s develo…

BEN WHITE must be one of the best and most successful examples of the way present-day Brighton have evolved. Picked up for nothing as a teenager after being discarded by Southampton, White’s develo…

NOT FOR THE first time, Peter Ward was in the headlines for scoring at Brighton’s Goldstone Ground – but this time it was in the colours of Nottingham Forest. It was 20 February 1982 and the quicks…

NOT FOR THE first time, Peter Ward was in the headlines for scoring at Brighton’s Goldstone Ground – but this time it was in the colours of Nottingham Forest. It was 20 February 1982 and the quicks…

GOALKEEPER Mikkel Andersen was one of five loan signings in Albion’s line-up for newly-appointed manager Russell Slade’s first match. Alas the young Dane was unable to help the Seagulls to a much-n…

GOALKEEPER Mikkel Andersen was one of five loan signings in Albion’s line-up for newly-appointed manager Russell Slade’s first match. Alas the young Dane was unable to help the Seagulls to a much-n…

BRIGHTON’s unlikely run to the 1983 FA Cup Final was largely spearheaded by the incredible shooting power of Scouser Jimmy Case. He’d picked up almost every medal there was to have in a decade with…

THE MAN whose all-time appearance record might soon be overtaken by James Milner spent six years from the age of nine training once a week at Albion’s school of excellence in Seaford. Hastings-born…

DEFENDER-turned-broadcaster Gary O’Reilly’s first ever league goal was scored for Brighton against Crystal Palace, a club he later scored for in a FA Cup final before rejoining the Seagulls. That g…

PACY DARREN HUGHES made his Everton first team debut two days after Christmas 1983 while still a member of the club’s youth team. That game at Molineux ended in a 3-0 defeat for the young defender …

PACY DARREN HUGHES made his Everton first team debut two days after Christmas 1983 while still a member of the club’s youth team. That game at Molineux ended in a 3-0 defeat for the young defender …

MARTIN THOMAS was a fourth-tier promotion winner with Fulham, Swansea and Brighton – twice under manager Micky Adams. Thomas played 90 matches for the west London side between 1994 and 1998 and was…

MARTIN THOMAS was a fourth-tier promotion winner with Fulham, Swansea and Brighton – twice under manager Micky Adams. Thomas played 90 matches for the west London side between 1994 and 1998 and was…

STEVE COTTERILL, who made a lasting connection with Brighton fans after impressing during an all-too-brief spell in 1992, saw his injury-plagued playing career come to a juddering halt at Bournemou…

STEVE COTTERILL, who made a lasting connection with Brighton fans after impressing during an all-too-brief spell in 1992, saw his injury-plagued playing career come to a juddering halt at Bournemou…

THERE’S plenty of FA Cup history between Brighton and Manchester United and a goalkeeper who played for both has his own memories of the competition – not all of them good! Although Tomasz Kuszczak…

THERE’S plenty of FA Cup history between Brighton and Manchester United and a goalkeeper who played for both has his own memories of the competition – not all of them good! Although Tomasz Kuszczak…