A long trip for some Wanderers fans today, but not my brother, who lives in Kent. Spare a thought for those Whites who have been up before dawn today to get to the Credit Card Arena in Brighton.
The clubs have only met 12 times in history (8 in the league, 4 in the FA Cup), with 4 wins apiece and 4 draws. In other words, we are a class above. We haven't played them for 20 years. You can read a Brighton fan's view of today's game here: http://www.burndenaces.co.uk/2012/11/23/qa-with-brighton-hove-albion.html
Did you know?
Brighton is immortalised in the Graham Greene novel, Brighton Rock, and the seminal 1979 Mod film, Quadrophenia, which ends with a disillusioned Phil Daniels ragging a stolen motorbike off Beachy Head.
Our predictions - a very even split
Wanderers win - 10
WanderersForever, Vera, TheHateCamel, royston-vasey, goldenwyndavies, MA_BWFC, finlaymcdanger, Holden on for Holden, Petrov, pwrbwfc
The Draw - 8
Circularly Exchanging Frivolities, ExiledinEssex, Petrov, TheReebokRowbot, bennythedip, GrashBWFC, Moses'-SWA, Reebok Rules
Brighton win - 7
GreekWanderer, Mallorca Trotter, GoldenGambler, Norpig, SUPERWHITEINEXILE, WATOAOW, largehat™
Odds
Brighton win 21/20
The Draw 12/5
Wanderers win 5/2
RESULT
BRIGHTON 1-1 WANDERERS
Barnes missed pen 15
Bruno 54
Ngog 90+6
Teams -
Wanderers ** EDIT - confirmation that Ream and Pratley are sitting in front of the back four.
BWFC: Bogdan, Mears, Mills, Knight (c), Warnock, Ream, M Davies, Afobe (Butterfield 55), Pratley (K Davies 55) Eagles, Ngog
Subs: Lynch, Andrews, K Davies, Ricketts, Spearing, Chung-Yong, Butterfield
Brighton
Brighton: Kuszczak, Bruno, Greer, Hammond, Dunk, Barnes, Orlandi, Mackail-Smith, Painter, Bridcutt, Buckley
Subs: Brezovan, Hoskins, Crofts, Dobbie, Calderon, Dicker, Lopez
Official BWFC live text updates
http://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/article/live-updates-brighton-v-wanderers-24.11.12-505953.aspx
LIVE version of this thread
http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewLiveArticle/169774
Please post any radio links and I will add them to the article here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_sussex
FT Brighton 1-1 Wanderers LIVE match thread
posted on 24/11/12
Benny has been battered over the head with a PVC willy by some Brighton gaylords.
posted on 25/11/12
LargeHat thinks we are the envy of the league. That might be true until the rest of the league plays us. Even Peterborough are eyeing us as an easy 3 points....Barnsley fancies us for the return leg.
We are living off prior reputation as a recent Prem club.... and worse some blokes on here think we are still a Prem club.....we are not.....until evidence is provided on the field.
posted on 25/11/12
Why is my prediction not included in the draw section of the OP I wonder?
posted on 25/11/12
Why is my prediction not included in the draw section of the OP I wonder?
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Err...I can see it.
posted on 25/11/12
Err...where???
there is some bogus entry, but not uniCEF or CEF.
posted on 25/11/12
thanks for your concerns guys.there was 5 of us in a pub near the station when coming towards the end of the villa v arsenal game on espn when a bouncer came over to us and asked us to leave.as we were doing nothing wrong we stayed were we were.about 10 mins later another bouncer came over and told us we had better go for our own safety.a large crowd of brighton fans had cottoned on to the fact we were bolton fans and were giving us the evils.my 4 mates made their way out and got a bit of a kicking as going out leaving me wetting my pants as i finished my pint.for some strange reason they did not have a go at me but it was a very scary moment as i walked out through the crowd of them.tried a pub down the road but the bouncer would not let us in telling us to get out of town.after a bit he relented and let us in but a group of brighton fans came in and gave us some evils.we decided to give it up then and caught a taxi to lewes were it was much calmer.
posted on 25/11/12
Better I suppose, but since I no longer have access to Uncle Phil's paper supply, I'm sure you could come up with something more imaginative LH
Bunny - glad you got out unscathed. Been a few years since I've seen bother at away games.
posted on 25/11/12
Who the eff is Bunny
posted on 25/11/12
I'll never get tired of living next door to Bunny.
posted on 25/11/12
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