Brighton, Home, 17:30KO. Chris Hughton's Ma.

[Captain]

Just imagine how much better we could be with Lovren playing instead though.

Yeah, we'd concede less than 0 goals!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I worked with his aunt years ago. Looked a lot like him.

I bet you still would.

[Hades]

To match-goers: Has there been a change in the sunlight present on the pitch since the building of the new main stand? From TV, the lighting appears different when filtered through the glass at the top. All very picturesque.

[Jennings]

To match-goers: Has there been a change in the sunlight present on the pitch since the building of the new main stand? From TV, the lighting appears different when filtered through the glass at the top. All very picturesque.

 

I haven't noticed it. But it isn't the sort of thing I would pay attention to.

 

I keep meaning to start a thread on the matchday experience and how it compares to the 80's - at least as much of it as I can remember - and how it could be improved. Must get on to it.

[sir roger]

I think we will play the same side at Leicester & then things may shake up a bit after the international break when everybody should be fully up to speed.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I haven't noticed it. But it isn't the sort of thing I would pay attention to.

 

I keep meaning to start a thread on the matchday experience and how it compares to the 80's - at least as much of it as I can remember - and how it could be improved. Must get on to it.

The atmosphere was a bit shit for most of the Brighton game.

[an tha]

The 80's was a strange period IMO...was almost like 3 era in one decade - there was the early 80's which felt like a decline in everything with the exuberant atmosphere of the late 70's dying out as the hooliganism got worse, away fans dwindled in numbers - nutters aside it seemed people stopped travelling (according to my arl fella anyway)....colours started dying out and certainly at Anfield crowds dwindled as the City was in such a bad state with the political and social climate.

 

Then the mid to late 80's it started to feel like it picked up a little although of course there were still problems and of course the terrible events of Heysel but then right at end of the decade of course the tragedy that was Hillsborough happened and everything changed as we went into the 90's fences down, reduction in Kop capacity and if you look at old youtube videos Anfield was a different looking and feeling place to the Anfield of the early 80's.

[aRdja]

Your memory is having fun. Deschamps was outstanding, for team and country, as a player and as a leader.

He wasn’t an outstanding footballer. Zidane, Thuram, Desailly, Henry, Vieira were outstanding footballers. Deschamps wasn’t near the quality of those players. He wasn’t as good as Petit, Lizarazu or Djorkaeff IMO.

[Fugitive]

To say Deschamps was an average player is fucking ridiculous.

[Numero Veinticinco]

To say Deschamps was an average player is fucking ridiculous.

Yep.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

He wasn’t an outstanding footballer. Zidane, Thuram, Desailly, Henry, Vieira were outstanding footballers. Deschamps wasn’t near the quality of those players. He wasn’t as good as Petit, Lizarazu or Djorkaeff IMO.

Well, opinions and all that. But you’re wrong basically.

[A Red]

He was very good at his job. You cant compare him to Zidane just as you cant compare a full back to a centre forward

[VladimirIlyich]

I hope Brighton do well this season. I like Hughton. He has an honesty about him that's admirable when you have deluded giblets like the Owl and Shitcoat to compare against.

Me too. He used to write a column for one of the lefty papers/magazines when he was a PFA union rep as a player also.