It is Cancer Research UK and the Bobby Moore Fund’s Football Shirt Friday on April 26th 2024. Football fans across the UK are encouraged to wear their favourite football shirts, take a picture, share it on social media and donate to tackle bowel cancer. My favourite Brighton football shirt? Easy. The AC Milan inspired away number the Albion wore between 1999 and 2002. Why? Because it made supporting Brighton seem cool for the first time in years. Firstly, it was made by Errea. Everyone knows they were the best kit manufacturer the Albion have ever had. Custom-made designs rather than the same ..read more

Tens of thousands of words are spread across the internet dedicated to why the Albion’s results and performances have tailed off so much in recent months. But can it actually be summed up in just four? Kaoru Mitoma Brighton injury. There are plenty of good theories as to what has happened to Brighton. Europa League workload. Roberto De Zerbi rocking the boat with his public griping at the board. Selling Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo in the summer. Not signing a single first-team-ready reinforcement in January. And of course, injuries. 10 players are currently out of action. The treatm ..read more

As we approach the end of another season, the time comes to look at the army of players Brighton sent out on loan in the 2023-24 campaign. 20 individuals left the Amex for temporary spells elsewhere, covering either the whole or part of the season. Ibrahim Osman takes that total to 21, having signed for £16 million in February but spending the the remainder of the campaign with FC Nordsjaelland. Inevitably with the number of players involved, the variability of loan experiences and the different standards of football, it is a mixed picture. Generally though, goalkeepers and strikers have tende ..read more

Profit and sustainability rules and financial fair play. Those are the words which will dominate early talk of transfers this summer, offering Brighton and Tony Bloom a unique opportunity to strengthen their squad. Nottingham Forest and Everton have already been hit with points deductions. Chelsea FC Holdings controversially sold a hotel to their own parent company BlueCo to get £76.3 million onto the Blues’ balance book to comply with PSR. Leicester City are not even in the Premier League, yet will be in big trouble if they win promotion. Many other clubs are so close to breaking PSR that the ..read more

For nearly a century now, Tug Wilson has sat at the top of the all-time Albion appearance list. His record of 566 Brighton games has never looked remotely in danger of being broken… until now with a certain Lewis Carl Dunk closing in. This was an interesting topic of debate in a pub recently. Would Dunk surpass Wilson? And if the current Albion captain does not, will anyone ever play more than 566 matches for Brighton? Modern-day football would suggest it is Dunk-or-bust. Loyalty is in short supply and money means good players tend to find their way to the bigger clubs in the food chain. Dunk ..read more

When Brighton Women surprised the football world with the shock departure of Mel Phillips on transfer deadline day, interim head coach Mikey Harris became the fifth manager to lead the team in the space of 15 months. Whereas the men’s team enjoy stability and a joined-up approach, Brighton Women have been run in a far more scattergun manner. Phillips lasted less than a year and her predecessors Jens Schueuer only a matter of months. The Albion employed a headhunting firm to find Phillips in the first place, indicating that the well-planned data driven basis that Brighton use to identify potent ..read more

According to Warren Aspinall, there are not many towns like Burnley in the Premier League. He reckoned the smoking chimneys were great for health, although I think he might have been joking. He also said he saw a three-wheeled pram whilst walking to the ground. That was ironic as by full time, it was not the only wheel in Burnley to have fallen off. The Albion’s visit to Turf Moor was a crucial game. Warren, Johnny Cantor and Tim Durrans on BBC Radio Sussex made that perfectly clear, as did other commentators and presenters on radio and television. Brighton could not afford to lose. And whilst ..read more

Brighton & Hove Albion recently announced profits of £122.8 million for the 2022-23 season, setting a new Premier League record. What makes this figure even more remarkable is that it does not include the £115 million received from Chelsea for Moises Caicedo. That highest figure ever for a British transfer will not show until the 2023-24 accounts. The Seagulls could in theory break their own record, posting an even bigger profit for the current campaign. With Nottingham Forest and Everton deducted points for breaching profit and sustainability rules, 115 financial fair play charges hanging ..read more

It has been a bruising couple of weeks for Brighton. The Albion were unlucky to come away from Liverpool with something for their efforts, played out a frustrating and painfully dull draw at Brentford, were well beaten at the Amex by Arsenal and then needed a comical own goal to take a point at Burnley. After all that, many of us will have slumped in our chairs and let out a deep sigh with Brighton sitting in a season-lowest position of 10th. But other clubs are also starting to falter, from Liverpool and the Gunners in the title race to the Albion’s more immediate rivals for a European spot l ..read more

Earlier this month, Albion published their annual accounts for the 2022-23 Premier League campaign. If you’re a Seagulls fan and you’ve not been living under a rock, the chances are you’ll already be aware of the club’s record-high post-tax profits. But just how do they compare with other clubs in the upper reaches of the Premier League? Below, we’ll compare Brighton’s latest accounts with similar clubs, based on total revenue, before breaking down matchday, commercial and broadcast revenues. We’ll also explore Brighton’s wage structure and where it sits in the Premier League hierarchy and whe ..read more