Opposition View: We Are Brighton

Did I miss something similar v WBA and Palace, or is this only the second such pre-game article?

The signings Scott mentions do appear good business for the club. Certainly prefer Brighton stay up over other candidates I could mention.

Good luck for the season. But not tomorrow!

Funnily enough on another recent thread I earmarked Trossard along with Maupay Connolly and Lamptey as being their creative/danger men. If we can keep them reasonably quiet, we should be okay, in what will be a challenging game, judging by how Brighton have fared this season.

Hope these articles will be a regular pre-match feature/fixture.

However I think on current form we will have too much for them.

Hopefully the big club that comes in for Lamptey in a couple of years will be us as Seamus will be winding down by then (after winning a few trophies).

I presume you network with the Eds of other clubs' fans forums. I think the TW community has shown enthusiasm for articles such as this so hope you can reach out to upcoming opponents, rather than wait for them to contact you.

I for one certainly enjoy them.

My only worry tomoroow is Allan being out but if Richy plays I think we will keep Lampty quiet.

Very interesting to understand where other clubsc are at, and how they view us.

So a game that is in the balance can still be decided by very poor decisions made hundreds of miles away in a studio were human decisions come into force, ridiculous.

Thanks for article with ToffeeWeb Scott, very interesting and your new right wing back is getting loads of notice and excellent reports.

But honestly, Lyndon, this is a really fantastic innovation for TW and long may it continue.

Brighton have some very talented players. I hope Carlo has enough to outfox Graham Potter. I agree with Scott's prediction - a tight 2-1 win, with James and Siggy as our scorers.

Dave! No!,"...and I say that with a soft spot for United"

Dave! No!,,,1,15:32:00,,80.3.202.204,ok,19747,10/02/2020 15:32:00,Overdrive,reader,,,no 1098678,39980,toffeeweb,02/10/2020,Danny O'Neill,dannyefc26@gmail.com,"This is a good feature and great that other supporters' website are reaching out to an Everton one.

Brighton has looked impressive in the games I've seen and I can see them improving on last seasons 15th & 41 points. Very hard done by last week; both by Lady Luck and the new handball rule resulting in United getting "that" penalty in the 127th minute or whenever it was!!

I see them scoring, so we need to continue our improved attacking form. Should be an entertaining match, although I've probably just cursed it to be a 0-0!

This is becoming one of my favorite recurring submissions / articles.

Scott, I sincerely hope you lose tomorrow, but also sincerely hope you stay up this season. Good luck.

I fear however we will struggle to get something as articulate from anyone representing our next opposition after the international break, given that 70% of them are Scandinavian and the other 30% never received an education.

I bet they are well pissed off with the VAR shambles last week, I am too, especially if Man Utd beat us to fourth by a point.

Scott, I hope the head rules the heart tomorrow, 2-1 to Everton.

Please keep these coming if possible.

Though I don't want to read anything from RAWK.

I do have a soft spot for Liverpool... it is in the middle of Morecambe Bay, just before the tide comes in.

Dave #11, I never knew you had a "soft spot for United"... I'm afraid I may have to reassess our friendship.

I thought Huyton was a great manager and I fully expect him to represent another Premier League club in the not too distant future. Potter has them playing well though but I feel, if we stop Trossard playing, we'll have far too much of them. 2-0 to the Blues.

Lamptey was a steal from Chelsea, I wonder was there a sell-on clause? Not being disrespectful, but he's going places.

A well run club with a true gentleman for a manager, Matt Busby, even though he was a former Liverpool manager. I liked them even more when Ferguson had them their fans going round the bend with each trophy he won.

Our relationship with their fans hasn't always been great although I think we've bonded more with them against the common enemy in recent years.

I also note the difference in attitude towards Everton between United fans who have followed them through more difficult times and, in particular those with local links, as apposed to the Sky Sports generation. The latter are as equally patronising and belittling towards us as any Kopite I know. Understandable I know given our performance over that period.

That's being very stereotypical and not meant to be critical to young or non-local supporters. It's part generational and partly an inevitable aspect of being a club that attracts so many band-wagon jumping fans regardless of age or origin.

Dave, can you do me a favour and read posts [29 & 30] on the Eddie Wainwright thread, and let me know what you think.

I also saw that the Man Utd player (McTominey I think) take the ball over the line for what should have been a goal kick in that last-minute incident. I was 300 miles away, the ref and Stockley Park are a lot closer than I was 🤓, but they still missed it.

VAR only looking at clear and obvious errors? Well, that corner given by Kavanagh was so clear and obvious and yet it was brushed over and ignored by all the TV coverage... disgrace that decision, and not even mentioned.

My 10th birthday coincided with the Munich air crash. I woke up and the paper that morning was full of it. I was as upset as it was possible to be about a club that wasn't Everton.

I was still a ‘football romantic' then and loved reading about Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor and the others, because they were great players in a great team. Bloody hell I used to go to Anfield every other week with my best mate, although I never really had much interest in them. Second Division poor relations.

Some good games with Utd too. Big crowds. Quite liked them.

The previous year my birthday coincided with Buddy Holly's death. Jinxed!

Remembering going to Goodison on a Boxing Day to see Everton reserves playing Barnsley reserves, on a freezing cold day, I marvelled at the brilliant young Barnsley reserve centre forward, Tommy Taylor, and his heading ability; he later died in the Munich crash.

What a terrible sad day that was for Manchester and all of British football, never to be forgotten, like Hillsborough.

I watched some of the Chelsea game and thought Brighton, were actually the better team, and although I think your little forward is up there with Salah when it comes to diving, I also thought you should have beaten Man Utd last Saturday.

Tomorrow's game will be a difficult match, especially with a couple of injuries to our midfielders. I just hope Richarlison passes his late fitnesses test because, otherwise, we might just be a bit short in the final third.

I had just returned to Cyprus in 1959 after a months' leave, when Buddy Hollis died. The irony of it was that his last release was "It doesn't matter anymore" – events that are recalled in an instant.

Enjoyed the football there despite the pitches been hard as concrete and "watered" with fertiliser (gave you an entire different reaction to a graze or scratch!!). And obviously the heat, although those mid-half water breaks helped immensely.

My 'Young Lady' surprised me with a return to Cyprus for my 60th birthday, it wasn't the Cyprus I remembered, donkeys replaced by cars, and single storey houses replaced by holiday skyscrapers. not what I expected but then things change in 40 years everywhere.

Find these articles informative since I tend to concentrate on Everton and see everything in that context. Those two players for under a million was very good business and going by reports Lamptey was a steal. At last Everton are showing this type of awareness.

Interesting the ambition is to be a top 10 Club. That was Everton's objective for years, but for Brighton it is a more honorable ambition given there progression.

As for these opposition views, I really enjoy them. It would be great if we could have 36 of them a year.

I agree with Jay Www

I don't disagree with Jay Wood @8

Darren. I think there'll be a tear in the eye of many on here with your last post!

Here's to seeing many more of these type of posts Lyndon.

I live up the road from Brighton (I've played Vets footy on their old ground in an old BAHFC kit donated to our Brighton-daft manager) and know lots of their fans. They hate Palace like we hate The Shite (but with even less humour) and are otherwise welcoming of away supporters.

I get almost free rail travel to the ground as I live just outside the zone and, despite VAR, have enjoyed visiting the Amex and partaken in probably too many Sussex bitters served by their very friendly staff. The banter outside is warm and welcoming and, even after that VAR decision last season when I went into full and loud rant mode in the queue for the train, I was accepted and even sympathised with.

Their team is looking good at the moment – I only saw the MotD version of the Man Utd game but they looked hungry and exciting. I'm not expecting a defeat today but I'm not underestimating them either. I just wish I was travelling up amongst them to Lime Street – they're even good value on the train. (I've learned lots of songs about Crystal Palace!)
UTFT!