If only it had gone in! Would have been classed as a “Wondergoal”! Hopefully Vicente will stay, and we can witness some more skilful moments from the Spaniard next season 
Tonight at the Amex is the final evening match, (unless we make the play-offs – you just can’t write this Brighton team off just yet! ), of what has been an amazing first season at the American Express Community Stadium – to give the Amex its’ official title.
I don’t know about you, but it appears that the last half of the season has gone by with a blur! 
As the old saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. This season has been amazing in so many ways, beating Premier League Teams in the Cups, Banners, Streakers, Smoke Bombs, leading the Championship table for a couple of matches at the start of the season, great vocal backing for the team from near sell-out crowds at every home game!, Shit referee’s, flair signings, great goals, and just general excitement at every home game in our great new stadium!
Well, what we can I say! In my last “In Other Albion News This Week”, several months ago now, the first part of that news round up started with a player aggravation, notably, Mr. Reyes getting thrown off the Chilean international team for a drinks misdomeaner. No less than three weeks later, “Rana” tries to drive himself to the home game at the Amex against Burnley, and as of course he is still under a ban for drink-driving, gets arrested by Sussex Police a couple of hours before the game, giving Gus Poyet a slight selection problem for the match!! Low and behold a week later “Rana” goes back to West Brom, with West Brom saying they have a “defensive crisis”. The Chilean international is up before the Brighton Beaks today. News on how he gets on will be “Twittered” later I’m sure.
I apologise for the lack of my “In Other Albion News This Week” post for the past couple of months, having been under home and work pressure, etc. I will endeavour to make this posting more regular. Well, at least more regular than a “Vicente” appearance for the Albion!! 
The week started off with West Brom Albion Loanee, Gonzalo Jara Reyes, getting a dressing-down from the Chilean International team manager, Claudio Borghi, after him and 4 of his international chums went out on the lash, and came back to the training camp late, and slightly merry, after attending a christening. They were all sent home. “Rana” – (Jara’s nickname), wasn’t expected to play in any of Chile’s internationals, after picking up a knee injury against Birmingham in the Championship fixture. He denied all knowledge that he’d forgotten what time curfew was! “ees complicated!”
In slightly better news, manager, Gus Poyet, celebrated 2 years in charge of the Albion! The Uruguayan, recently signed a 5 year deal at the club, that should see him up to 2016, unless Chelsea or Tottenham come a poachin’! Gus will also celebrate his 45th birthday this coming Tuesday, and will finish off this momentous period of his Brighton career with a match against league leaders Southampton at St. Mary’s on Saturday, the ground where it all started for him & the Albion in 2009, with a 3 – 1 win. More of the same please Gustavo!
Those immortal lyrics from one of Brighton’s greatest supporters, financially, over the last 10 or so years, Fat Boy Slim, a.k.a. Mr. Norman Cook, seems to be very apt for the great number of Brighton & Hove Albion supporters that are now rocking up to the shiny and new Amex Community Stadium in the little village of Falmer, which nestles in the South Downs National Park.
You couldn’t have written the script any better on opening day of the Championship season 2011/12, as Brighton entertained Doncaster Rovers, the team that ended the Goldstone years in April 1997.
It was an emotional day on that wet Saturday afternoon, almost one and half decades ago. The weather was miserable, and had rained for most of the morning before the match, the crowd was slightly subdued in nervous anticipation of what might happen.
Hello and welcome to my newest blog.
If you haven’t already guessed, or been led here from a Brighton and Hove Albion Website, then you must have an inkling as to what this blog is all about.
This blog is about the meteoric rise of Brighton and Hove Albion, since those dark days of 14 years ago when the Albion had their stadium sold from under them, by the owners that were promising the world to Albion fans, with lots of different options, of which none came to fruition.
Finally, after much planning, planning rows, planning u-turns, and at one stage a shortage of money to build the thing, the great Sussex sporting colosseum is now fully operational, and providing great excitement amongst the Albion’s fans from over the years, that have now returned to supporting the Blue and White stripes again.
Following the Albion seems to encompass all the highs and lows of life, and finally after quite a few lows, the highs have definitely started to return.
RT @BHASnappy: #EXTRASEATS Today work on the terrace sections of the South West corner commenced. Pls RT #BHAFC http://t.co/71OQxyG7
Word to MAN CITY fans! NEVER EVER LEAVE b4 the end, cos.those last minute goals can make all the difference! #MCFC lol shakes head!
RT @AgerBomb22: Man city fans a leaving?? You flipping idiots support the team if you want them to win!
Hmmmm @Joey7Barton trending on Twitter! What's he done now now! Oh reverting to type again I see ;-) Wally! #JoeyBarton
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Brighton & Hove Albion 2 – 0 Barnsley
Amex Stadium – Sunday 6th November 2011
After a run of 10 matches without a win, only 7 goals scored, and 3 points out of a possible 27 (What a scary stat. that is!! Almost relegation form!!), the boys in the “Old Brighton Blue” got their season back on track with a 2 – 0 win against Barnsley at the Amex Stadium on Sunday.
The match was taking place on the Sunday, because of all the Lewes Bonfire celebrations taking place on Saturday, which of course was the 5th of November. It appears the residents of Lewes are still a bit pi**ed off with the Albion as one of the effigy’s that was torched on Saturday night was of a Seagull nestled in a lovely model of the AMEX Stadium!! (Just reading up on it, it could have been a tableau. Which sometimes is used in bonfires as a celebration, apparently. So who knows??)
If it inspires the team this much, can you do it every week please Lewes!!