Late Tackle Football Magazine

SOARING SEAGULLS

Brighton on the march

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Express Community Stadium. They have produced English talent such as Solly March and Lewis Dunk, and also have a manager at the helm who knows what he is doing.

Hull City captain Curtis Davies played under Chris Hughton at Birmingham and described him as,“second to none. The best in the business”.

Newcastle fans also hold him in high regard, after he brilliantl­y led them to the Championsh­ip title in 2010, while the former Tottenham full-back is still lauded for the job he did at Birmingham in 2012. He wasn’t universall­y pop

ular at Norwich but the Canaries were well clear of the Premier League relegation zone before he left the club.

It does seem like Hughton could be exactly what Brighton need to take them to the next level; their final missing piece of the puzzle.

The infrastruc­ture is there; the training ground, the stadium, the academy, the fanbase. Even the pies at the Amex have been voted as the best in English football!

Brighton need a team to match the facilities, and Hughton is providing that.

After two failed play-off campaigns in 2013 and 2014, under Gus Poyet and then Oscar Garcia, the Seagulls started the 2014-15 campaign with the newly appointed Sami Hyypia at the helm; a gamble that didn’t pay off. A shocking summer of recruitmen­t was followed by a shocking first-half of the season,

which ultimately ended with Hyypia

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