Brighton & Hove Albion FC v LFC, Saturday 2nd December 3pm

[RP]

Hate stadiums like this. But anyway, we'll just smash them. At least 3 or 4.

 

 

Pre match pub?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhU3BmNk1A

 

 

 

[PhilM]

The pies at the stadium are superb. Leave some room free to try all of them.

[Doyler3000]

Hate stadiums like this. But anyway, we'll just smash them. At least 3 or 4.

 

 

Pre match pub?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWhU3BmNk1A

 

Might watch the match in there. Would be my first visit to a Brighton pub since moving down this way!

[jimbolala]

That looks like a good day out.

[LicK]

Matip ruled out. Muscle problem. (Klopp said this in press conference)

 

We need two new centre halves, don't we?

Edited December 1, 2017 by LicK

[quibs]

Lovren and Klavan unless Lovren is injured also.

[Jarg Armani]

Matip ruled out. Muscle problem. (Klopp said this in press conference)

 

We need two new centre halves, don't we?

Where's that Hightown Phil hiding

 

Never injured is he matip

[Hassony]

Matip ruled out. Muscle problem. (Klopp said this in press conference)

 

We need two new centre halves, don't we?

Think he's being tested for Wednesday

[Hightown Phil]

Where's that Hightown Phil hiding

 

Never injured is he matip

Hiya.

[Jarg Armani]

Hiya.

Boooooooooo

[Cam]

Do a bit more rotating/resting and play Gomez at centreback.

 

Goalie

TAA Gomez Klavan Robertson

AOC Henderson Can

Salah Firmino Coutinho

 

Mane's turn for a rest again. Give Lallana half an hour.

[LicK]

Think he's being tested for Wednesday

Bold move given Klavan has also been ill and Lovren is made of crisps.

Or he could be injured, like Klopp said.

 

In any case, it's a game you could see Gomez playing centre half in, with TAA at right back. Don't think we will though.

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Gomez must be due a break too

[Leo No.8]

Seems a good opportunity to move Gomez into the middle and get TAA in at right back. These will want to sit back so we could use his attacking ability from FB.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Gomez must be due a break too

 

He'll play Trent on Weds

[Will]

Double Agents

           

In advance of our first visit in any competition in more than six years, YNWA looks at the careers of those who have represented both the Seagulls and the mighty reds.

           

Most recent double agents

Reserves defender Alan Navarro never made a first-team appearance for us, and moved to Tranmere Rovers for £225,000 in January 2002. He was released by MK Dons in May 2009, moving to Brighton that summer on an initial two-year deal. After an injury-hit second campaign he had to win a new contract by impressing in pre-season training, which he succeeded in doing. He played in midfield for the Seagulls, scoring once in 85 outings before joining Swindon Town on a free in June 2012.

           

Finnish centre-half Sami Hyypiä played 464 reds games, netting 35 times and helping us to claim the European Cup, UEFA Cup, two FA Cups, two League Cups and two UEFA Super Cups following his £2.5m bargain capture from Dutch side Willem II in May 1999. He left the club in the summer of 2009 to sign for Bayer 04 Leverkusen on a free transfer, subsequently moving into management. He took over as Brighton boss in June 2014, only leading them to six wins in 26 games before resigning after six months in charge. Sammy Lee agreed to work as Hyypiä’s Assistant, but he instead joined Southampton.

           

Midfielder João Teixeira signed from Sporting Clube de Portugal for £830,000 in January 2012, making his senior bow as a substitute in our win at Fulham in February 2014. He netted once in eight senior games in total. He was brought in by Hyypiä to spend the 2014/15 season on loan with the Seagulls, scoring six times in 35 outings, becoming their top scorer in the League and being named as their Young Player of the Year. He left the reds in July 2016 to sign for SL Benfica, with the club getting a compensation fee of £240,000.

           

80’s arrivals from the Goldstone

Michael Robinson joined Manchester City from Preston North End for a hefty £750,000 in August 1979, but moved on to Brighton later that season for a lower fee. He struck 37 times in 113 League outings for the Seagulls, including featuring in the FA Cup Final 1983, before Joe Fagan brought the Irish international forward to Anfield in August of that year for £250,000. In his first season at the club he won the League title and European Cup, bagging a total of thirteen goals in 52 games during his Anfield career. He is now a much-respected football pundit and commentator for Spanish television.

           

Mark Lawrenson joined us for a then-record fee of £900,000 in August 1981, going on to make 356 appearances, netting eighteen times while helping us to win four League titles, one European Cup, one FA Cup, three League Cups, the FA Charity Shield and Screen Sport Super Cup in his time at Anfield, before taking over as Oxford United boss in March 1988. He had joined Brighton from Preston North End for £100,000 in the summer of 1977, helping them to finish runners-up in the old Second Division in 1979 and netting five times in 152 League games.

           

Up front

Dean Saunders joined Brighton from Swansea City on a free transfer in August 1985. He struck 26 times in 86 games while at the Goldstone Ground, before being sold to Oxford United for £60,000 in March 1987. He arrived at Anfield from Derby County for a British record £2.9m in July 1991, notching 25 times in 61 games. He was sold by Graeme Souness after only fourteen months at the club, moving on to Aston Villa for £2.3m, grabbing a brace against the reds on his home debut.

           

Left-winger Hector Lawson signed from Rangers in January 1924, playing sixteen times before moving on to Airdrieonians in August 1925. He spent the 1928/29 season with Brighton.

           

At the back

Keeper Joe Corrigan made nearly 600 appearances for Manchester City, as well as winning nine England caps. He spent ten years on our backroom staff before moving on after the arrival of Rafael Benítez. He had joined Brighton from Seattle Sounders in 1983, playing 42 times. Phil Neal’s son Ashley was a defender on our books in the 1990’s. He played four games on loan at the Goldstone Ground from September 1996, all ending in defeat, before leaving Anfield for Huddersfield Town on a free transfer in December of that year.

           

Brighton-born centre-half Alex South joined he ground staff at his hometown club at the age of fifteen. He played 81 League games before joining the reds for £5,000 in December 1954. He struck once in just seven appearances before moving on to Halifax Town in October 1956, for whom he racked up over three hundred games.

           

The management

Jimmy Case signed from South Liverpool for a bargain £500 in May 1973 and bagged 46 goals in 269 reds games, helping us to claim three European Cups, four League titles, UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, League Cup and three FA Charity Shields, before joining the Seagulls for £350,000 as part of the Mark Lawrenson deal in August 1981. He featured in the 1983 FA Cup Final, netting fifteen goals in 151 games before joining Southampton in March 1985 for a nominal £30,000 fee as Lawrie McMenemy’s last signing for the Saints. He returned to Brighton on December 1993, initially as a player/coach before taking over from Liam Brady as Manager in November 1995, playing 34 more games. He was in charge as they were relegated to the basement division and was fired after a year in charge with the club sitting bottom of the whole Football League.

           

Inside-forward Jimmy Melia broke into the reds first team after winning England caps at schoolboy and youth level. He scored on his debut in December 1955, going on to net 79 times in 286 reds games, helping us to the First and Second Division titles, before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers in March 1964. He was Interim Manager of Brighton during the 1982/83 season, when he led them to the FA Cup Final although they were also relegated. Their cup run included a famous Fifth Round win at Anfield, when Jimmy Case struck the winner. Chief Executive Peter Robinson stepped down in the summer of 2000 after 35 years at Anfield. He had previously worked as Secretary for the Albion.

           

Don Welsh guested for the reds during the Second World War, and later took charge at Anfield for 232 games after taking over in March 1951. He has the indignity of being our first Manager to be sacked, in May 1956, after presiding over our relegation from the top flight in 1954, and failing to lead us back to the promised land. He had begun his managerial career with Brighton in November 1947, aged just 36. They finished bottom of the Third Division South at the end of that campaign, but he led them to sixth and eighth in the next two seasons.

           

Wartime double agents

Several reds guested for Brighton during the Second World War. Jack Balmer quit Everton where he had been an amateur for Anfield in May 1935, signing on professionally three months later. He bagged 111 goals in 312 reds games, including trebles in three consecutive matches on our way to the League title in 1947. He also played in the FA Cup Final three years later and coached the reds after retiring from playing in May 1952.

           

Forward Harry Eastham signed from his hometown club Blackpool in February 1936 but only notched four times in 68 games for the reds in a career interrupted by the Second World War, scoring four times as well as another three strikes in eleven wartime outings. He left Anfield for Tranmere Rovers in May 1948 having helped us to claim the first post-war League title. Forward Ted Crawford signed from Halifax Town in 1932, bagging four goals in eight games before joining Clapton Orient in July 1933, for whom he struck 73 times in 212 Division Three South games.

           

Scottish forward Bill Kinghorn signed from Queens Park in April 1938 and netted four times in nineteen reds games, and another three times in eleven wartime matches. Frank O’Donnell struck once in two wartime appearances for the reds. He gained six Scotland caps as well as scoring for Preston North End in every round of the FA Cup in 1937, including the Final. South African keeper Dirk Kemp signed from Transvaal in December 1936, playing thirty official and ten wartime games for the reds. Left-back Bernie Ramsden arrived on a free transfer from Sheffield Victoria in March 1935, and helped us to claim the first post-war League title in 1947 after guesting with the Seagulls during the war, making a total of 63 first-team appearances without notching. He moved on to Sunderland in March 1948.

           

Club Secretary Jimmy McInnes sadly hanged himself above the Archway Stile, the old turnstile between the Kop and Kemlyn Road stands, in May 1965, just four days after we had claimed the FA Cup for the first time. He had been in this role for a decade, having previously been on our books as a left-half during the Second World War, also guesting with the Seagulls. Wing-half Tom Bush struck once in 69 reds appearances either side of the Second World War after signing from Shrewsbury Town in March 1933. He then joined the reds coaching staff. Scottish centre-half John Easdale only played two senior games after arriving from junior football in February 1937, moving down into the Third Division in 1948.

[épieur]

I'd rip it up at the back and go for

 

Karius

TAA-Klavan-Gomez-Robertson

Can

Chamberlain-Coutinho

Salah-Firmino-Mane

 

Play the Big Four up front as insurance policy for a changed defence.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

after 4 wins in 5 that ain't happening

[kop205]

Smack the f*** out of these

[Stevie H]

score an early goal and boss it. at this point they're terrified of us. so give them no encouragement at all.

[Smith]

They are tight at the back.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

13-14 - F-A - they don't score or concede many

[kop205]

I couldn't name their manager or a single one of their players. In fact, I reckon I could name more players and managers from the 85 season than I could now, for most teams bar us.

 

This could be cos I don't do panini anymore, cos teams change more or cos I give a s*** less. Or all of the above.

[Stevie H]

They are tight at the back.

 

they haven't played against salah before.

[Gunga Din]

the first team i actually remember watching beating us are Brighton. in 1983 in the FA cup i think. Phil Neal missd a pen. then the following year they beat us again and Jimmy Case scored agaionst us. ive disliked Brighton ever since