Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is an English club club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, Sussex. The club will play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, for the 2011/12 season after securing automatic promotion via a League One championship at the end [.

For people who come from other parts of the country, particularly in the Football League-saturated midlands and north-west of England, it might be hard to grasp the peculiar mentality which comes of supporting Brighton and Hove Albion. Their geographical catchment area is the envy of almost any of their rivals you could care to mention, having been the sole League representative for the county of Sussex for over 90 years.

The collective hangover had barely cleared on Wednesday morning before Brighton and Hove Albion — and their manager Gus Poyet — were preparing for the dawn of a new era.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is an English club club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, Sussex. The club will play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, for the 2011/12 season after securing automatic promotion via a League One championship at the end [.

Spanning our coverage to three divisions would always present problems when deciding upon this season's best team. Just as the WBA, IBF and WBC versions of international boxing competed for eminence in the 1980s, Queen's Park Rangers, Chesterfield and Brighton and Hove Albion possess equal claims to be the top canines thirty or so years on.

By Chris Wright

The cheeky rascal builders working on Brighton and Hove Albion's new, 22,300-seater Falmer Stadium pulled a fast one when installing the seating, modifying the club's seagull logo with a few carefully placed white seats...

Sadly, the guano-based prank didn't last long, with a Brighton spokesman confirming that ‘a clean-up operation has taken place and the seats have been re-arranged to show the seagull in flight'.

A Swash Buckley Homecoming Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Doncaster Rovers (06:08:11) 14 years ago Brighton & Hove Albion played Doncaster Rovers in the last ever game at the Goldstone Ground. Fast forward to the present day, and they were at it again - for the first ever league game at The American Express Community Stadium.

Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace - The thoughts of Kevin Day.... Brighton entertain their fiercest rivals Crystal Palace tomorrow for the first time in six years. European Football Weekends has one foot in the Brighton camp. On the other side of the fence is Match of the Day 2 regular, Kevin Day.

The Beautiful South
Brighton 3-1 Portsmouth (08:01:11)

by Larry from Lancing

Ever since Charles Alcock (no jokes from us on that name, EFW is a family publication and remains strictly above the waist) suggested on 20 July 1871: ‘That it is desirable that a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with The Association, for which all clubs belonging to The Association should be invited to compete', the great and good of the footie world have been up for the cup.

The Seagulls That Kicked The Hornets' Nest
Watford 0-1 Brighton (29:01:11)
It was so nice of Southern Rail to get in on the act. They chose to celebrate the Seagulls progression into the 4th round of the FA Cup proper by laying on a fleet of (Gus) buses to ferry 3,649 Brighton fans to Vicarage Road.

Orient Express Delivery Leyton Orient - Brighton (01:02:11) Ladies and gentlemen - making his EFW debut - Mr Nick Goodwin: Hot on the heels of EFW's jubilant excursion to Vicarage Road 3 days ago it was soon time to pack away (for the time being) the silver foil FA Cup trophy and get back to matters of a more serious nature.

Heads You Win Stoke City 3-0 Brighton and Hove Albion (19:02:11) Ah, the Boothen roar; terracing; Delilah; a wall of noise; a four goal thriller; Peter Beagrie; Dean Wilkins and being unceremoniously bundled into the back of a police van for "our own safety" after the match. All memories of the last time I went to Stoke City to see Brighton & Hove Albion play, at their old Victoria Ground - in

Heads You Win Stoke City 3-0 Brighton and Hove Albion (19:02:11) Ah, the Boothen roar; terracing; Delilah; a wall of noise; a four goal thriller; Peter Beagrie; Dean Wilkins and being unceremoniously bundled into the back of a police van for "our own safety" after the match. All memories of the last time I went to Stoke City to see Brighton & Hove Albion play, at their old Victoria Ground - in

The Everglades. A porch.

Enter Bobby Joe and Cleavon.

Bobby Joe:

Dagnabbit, Cleavon, I will know your thoughts.

Cleavon:

Good Bobby Joe, pardon me;
Though I am bound to every match of football,
I am not bound to that which even slaves are free to.

Seagulls are the Bee's Knees Brentford 0-1 Brighton (08:03:11) We sent roving reporter Nick Goodwin to Brentford to watch the mighty Albion.... Since EFW's last League 1 outing in February, Brighton and Hove Tika Taka FC have notched up five league wins, scoring four goals in four of those games to boot.

My Favourite Ever Goal Tonight at Griffin Park, Brighton and Hove Albion will trot out onto the pitch to try and maintain their push for promotion into the Championship. For myself, and I suspect 2,000 other Brighton fans that were there that day, a trip to Brentford will always evoke memories of an FA Cup tie in 1987 and that goal, my favourite ever goal.

My Favourite Ever Goal Tonight at Griffin Park, Brighton and Hove Albion will trot out onto the pitch to try and maintain their push for promotion into the Championship. For myself, and I suspect 2,000 other Brighton fans that were there that day, a trip to Brentford will always evoke memories of an FA Cup tie in 1987 and that goal, my favourite ever goal.

County Stamp Out Relegation Threat Notts County 1-1 Brighton (07:05:11) A warm welcome back to Brighton fan and all-round genius David Hartrick.... Okay, I suppose we better address the EFW match-report shaped elephant in the room. My last article from the Oldham vrs Brighton game this season may have contained one or two factual errors.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is an English club club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, Sussex. The club will play in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English football league system, for the 2011/12 season after securing automatic promotion via a League One championship at the end [.

It'll be all-white on the night With Brighton's stadium due to be completed for the start of the new season, you might have thought that the builders would be working flat out to get things finished. Not a bit of it. Instead, workmen added a few white seats below the club's logo so that it [...]

American Beauty Brighton & Hove Albion 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur (30-07-11) Brighton's new stadium is landmark architecture, designed to inspire. Premier League calibre. Beautiful inside. A mansion for the homeless. Paul Hayward I didn't actually want to attend this match. I'd waited so long - 14 years to be precise - to see Brighton play in a "proper" home stadium again that I promised myself one

Regular readers of this site will be all too aware of the recent problems that have beset Plymouth Argyle Football Club. Plymouth's supporters, in conjunction with whose of Brighton & Hove Albion, are now planning a protest on the twenty-fourth of September to which supporters of all clubs will be welcome.

Things went horribly, horribly wrong on Sunday, but we've already covered that. Perhaps it doesn't come as a huge surprise, though, that a lot of the places that talk Liverpool have gone a touch quiet following their obligatory (and rather depressed) match reviews in the wake of Sunday's sad showing at Spurs.

Things went horribly, horribly wrong on Sunday, but we've already covered that. Perhaps it doesn't come as a huge surprise, though, that a lot of the places that talk Liverpool have gone a touch quiet following their obligatory (and rather depressed) match reviews in the wake of Sunday's sad showing at Spurs.

All of a sudden, the Carling Cup trip to Brighton and Hove Albion looks a great deal more important than it once did.
Liverpool will of course be desperate to stay in the hunt for silverware this season, especially with no European football on offer.
But equally importantly, it is a chance to produce an immediate reaction to two disappointing league results.

Brighton's new Falmer Stadium... Liverpool travel to the home of the seagulls tomorrow for their league cup fixture against Brighton & Hove Albion. Promoted from league one last season, the seaside club are finding themselves in a bit of good form. The Reds on the other hand will be looking to quickly forget about their embarrassing defeat at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on the weekend and

Carling Cup: Brighton and Hove Albion v Liverpool

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League Cup: Brighton v Liverpool

Kenny Dalglish said he was going to field a strong side for tonight's match against Brighton and Hove Albion and he's certainly not picked a weak one. Injuries and suspensions meant he would have to make at least three changes – Daniel Agger is injured with Martin Skrtel and Charlie Adam suspended – but he's also made a couple of further changes.

Liverpool 2 Craig Bellamy 7′, Dirk Kuyt 81′
Brighton 1 Ashley Barnes (pen) 90′

Liverpool came out firing, looking to put doubts to rest in the wake of Sunday's shambolic visit to White Hart Lane—or, for the players who had been left out against Tottenham, perhaps attempting to show the manager that they were more deserving of starting roles.

All is not lost as Brighton find a way forward under Poyet

Ultimately they lost, but it can no longer be said of Brighton and Hove Albion that they are lost. Two years ago this week the Seagulls were 19th in League One.

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Bellamy scores his first goal back in a Liverpool shirt... It was end to end stuff last night in Brighton as Gus Poyet's boys looked to cause an upset for Liverpool. An inspired performance from Brighton was threatening to take the game from the Reds on several occasions but in the end the home side had to settle for a consolation goal from the penalty spot.

Football League blog: Brighton's Poyet out to put one over on old club Leeds

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Former Manchester United and Leeds defender Gordon McQueen (59) has been diagnosed with Cancer of the Larynx and will have treatment at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough.

McQueen capped 30 times for Scotland was an inaugural part of the great Leeds side who won the 1973/74 League title going 29 games unbeaten in the process.

In the last week, both Steve Harper and Peter Lovenkrands have made very strong suggestions that their days at Newcastle United are numbered. Firstly, speaking in an interview with Brighton and Hove Albion's website, and also in the club's match programme, currently on loan goalkeeper, Steve Harper, has once again become weary of his peripheral [.

Liverpool has always been concerned with tradition, and they have good reason.
The history behind their multiple European Cup wins and the tragedy of Hillsborough among other notable events means the club will always be highly thought of.
The club's relationship with the League Cup, not always a competition held in the highest regard, has led to Kenny Dalglish fielding his strongest team this term, despite the inferior opposition.

Vicente: From the Mestalla to Falmer
The year is 1997 and on England's South Coast, things are far from sunny, writes David Hartrick.
Brighton and Hove Albion are facing an uncertain future as the Goldstone Ground has been sold as a result of an asset strip from a board led by a man with little to no regard for the club.

Vicente: From the Mestalla to Falmer
The year is 1997 and on England's South Coast, things are far from sunny, writes David Hartrick.
Brighton and Hove Albion are facing an uncertain future as the Goldstone Ground has been sold as a result of an asset strip from a board led by a man with little to no regard for the club.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish says the club is delighted with the recovery of captain Steven Gerrard, but are refusing to put a date on his return.
The 31-year-old has been ruled out of the weekend's visit of Manchester City after being blighted by injury problems this season, having made just five appearances for the Reds.

Robbie Findley looks to feature in Nottingham Forest's league game against Leeds United, while Conor Doyle hopes for playing time as Derby County takes on Brighton and Hove Albion.

Brighton and Hove Albion 1 Nottingham Forest 0 Gutted isn't the word Forest rose to the challenge from Tuesday night's fiasco with a spirited and dominating performance over a very good Brighton side. Only to find themselves being hit by a sucker-punch at the death. Don't think that the Forest site is [.