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Averaging an incredible 1 touch per minute, he recovered the ball once. Who says he's JUST a striker?

He didn't score, however he ranked first in chances created, shots and touches in the opposition box.

Good to know he has this in his back pocket if we need him on a rainy day.

I saw this Brentford meme and it got me thinking about what people have said to me as a Brighton fan that has really grated me and what the Brighton equals to this are.

My two leaders are:

"Chelsea are better. Good luck not getting relegated" - Two kids to me as I was heading to the Tromsø game at the start of the season. We haven't been anywhere close to relegation for years.

"You're just a shit Cr*stal Palace" - Arsenal fans when they were up at the Emirates, always go for the rivals, it genuinely does hurt sometimes.

via BBC "[JJ Gabriel] had been expected to make his competitive bow in Wednesday night's Carabao Cup tie with Brighton."

I, for one, am breathing a sigh of relief. It'd be very Brighton to get scored on by a 15 year old breaking a youth record in his professional debut.

Would he have still gone to Chelsea? Would we have dropped him wherever took him asap? It's interesting to imagine the alternate reality where he did some serious damage here. I don't think we're the kind of club and Fabian isn't the kind of manager that would've let things slide if he did.

Rant incoming.

This is the pricing structure for Man United in the 3rd of the Carabao Cup.

I'm not a season ticket holder, because l currently don't have the money to be a season ticket holder. However I do go to as many games as l am able to go and with a membership I'm able to go to pretty much any game l want to. However this doesn't include away games, because STH get priority over those tickets so 90% of the time, the games wil sell out before l even have a chance to buy one. I'm not complaining about this, that's just how it is.

When it comes to the cups however, those away tickets rarely sell out fully, especially for the early rounds. So it's a great chance for people like me, who otherwise don't get to support Brighton away at these big stadiums to get those away days.

I went to the Emirates last season for Brighton in the same round of the same cup and Arsenal charged us £30. Perfectly reasonable.

Now along come Man United, and they wanna charge us £44 a pop for a ticket. It makes no sense to me, that £14 difference makes no change to them, but makes a big difference to those buying the tickets, especially when factoring in the cost of getting to Manchester and back on a Wednesday night.

They did the same thing last season, charging fans £50 for an early FA Cup game.

It's not even exclusive to away support. Their own cheapest ticket is £40. I paid £15 for Wolves at home a couple seasons ago. I just paid £22 for one of the best seats in the house for the Conference League qualifier. I get United are a bigger club, so they're gonna charge more. But £40 for a third round CC game is absolutely insane.

I mean where are we gonna find the depth to field that many players???

(Arsenal Villa isn't until Monday, so Villa won't be able to go under them in GD, and any win will take us above City in terms of GD)

Brighton lost their Head Coach, Dario Vidosic, just 1 week before the new WSL season began. Dario chose to leave himself, citing a "new opportunity". Dario left after 2 seasons, bringing the club to their highest ever finish in the WSL and taking them to Wembley in the FA Cup Final last season. He left after taking the team through an entire pre-season campaign, battling against PSG and Barcelona.

The club announced this, and just 7 hours later, announced the signing of new Head Coach, Arturo Ruiz. Ruiz coached Real Sociedad's women's team last season, bringing them to a 3rd place finish in Liga F. This included just 4 losses in their 30 game season.

Ruiz joins Brighton just 8 days ahead of their WSL Opening match against Arsenal.

Hearts are playing in a qualifying match against Rapid Wein on the same days as us, after dropping down from Champions League qualifiers to Conference League qualifiers.

If both Brighton and Hearts win, they should be available to be drawn against each other in the league phase.

Tony only bought 29% share of Hearts, negating any controlling steak and meaning that both teams are able to play in the competition and against each other.

The tie will be aggregate over 2 legs:

Away at Tromsø - 20th August 2026

Home at the AMEX - 27th August 2026

A win will see Brighton move straight through to the league phase of the Conference League