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Today's Football 2018-19 Season

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Are Brighton sleepwalking towards relegation?

Brighton beat Millwall in the FA Cup quarter final in the most dramatic fashion, including an outrageous howler from the Millwall keeper in time added on to eventually reach the FA Cup semi.

Shearer predictably as per, came out with his usual verbal garbage about a good cup run (can) help(ing) in the league too (although tbf Brighton at the time looked safe).

Since then, they've lost all five matches, four in the league, including embarrassing 0-5 and 0-2 losses to Bournemouth and relegation rivals Cardiff respectively. Failing to score even once while conceding eleven just added to their misery.

Relegated clubs come in all forms, there's the very special cases, the ones that only happen every ten years or so, that are so poor they threaten Derby's record low points total of 11 (?) points....

....Then there's the yo-yo clubs who bounce around between the top two tiers, WBA being the most prominent...

...and finally there's the too good to go down category, the ones that have some half decent players, have looked safe all season, and suddenly, perhaps accompanied by a great FA Cup run (eh Alan), fall through the trapdoor with noone apparently seeing the danger signs.....

...This season we may arguably have all three types (Fulham a yo yo club is a stretch admittedly) but the 'too good to go down' may well....

.....in future be termed as doing a Brighton
 
Chris O'Connor said:
Are Brighton sleepwalking towards relegation?

Brighton beat Millwall in the FA Cup quarter final in the most dramatic fashion, including an outrageous howler from the Millwall keeper in time added on to eventually reach the FA Cup semi.

Shearer predictably as per, came out with his usual verbal garbage about a good cup run (can) help(ing) in the league too (although tbf Brighton at the time looked safe).

Since then, they've lost all five matches, four in the league, including embarrassing 0-5 and 0-2 losses to Bournemouth and relegation rivals Cardiff respectively. Failing to score even once while conceding eleven just added to their misery.

Relegated clubs come in all forms, there's the very special cases, the ones that only happen every ten years or so, that are so poor they threaten Derby's record low points total of 11 (?) points....

....Then there's the yo-yo clubs who bounce around between the top two tiers, WBA being the most prominent...

...and finally there's the too good to go down category, the ones that have some half decent players, have looked safe all season, and suddenly, perhaps accompanied by a great FA Cup run (eh Alan), fall through the trapdoor with noone apparently seeing the danger signs.....

...This season we may arguably have all three types (Fulham a yo yo club is a stretch admittedly) but the 'too good to go down' may well....

.....in future be termed as doing a Brighton
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I quite like Hughton and the Palace Brighton rivalry does bring something to the prem but (and I know it’s only my snobbish football opinion) I’d much rather see Villa, Sheffield Wednesday, Coventry, Sunderland, Leeds, Nottingham Forest, in the prem than Brighton, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Burnley etc. Premier league games should be exciting home fixtures and challenging away ones. Leicester and Wolves are good examples of this, at least the fixtures have got something about them, same as Newcastle, and would be the same if Leeds or Villa came up. Playing teams like Huddersfield or Brighton offers nothing has you just get hacked off if your team doesn’t win.
 

Chris O'Connor said:
Are Brighton sleepwalking towards relegation?

Brighton beat Millwall in the FA Cup quarter final in the most dramatic fashion, including an outrageous howler from the Millwall keeper in time added on to eventually reach the FA Cup semi.

Shearer predictably as per, came out with his usual verbal garbage about a good cup run (can) help(ing) in the league too (although tbf Brighton at the time looked safe).

Since then, they've lost all five matches, four in the league, including embarrassing 0-5 and 0-2 losses to Bournemouth and relegation rivals Cardiff respectively. Failing to score even once while conceding eleven just added to their misery.

Relegated clubs come in all forms, there's the very special cases, the ones that only happen every ten years or so, that are so poor they threaten Derby's record low points total of 11 (?) points....

....Then there's the yo-yo clubs who bounce around between the top two tiers, WBA being the most prominent...

...and finally there's the too good to go down category, the ones that have some half decent players, have looked safe all season, and suddenly, perhaps accompanied by a great FA Cup run (eh Alan), fall through the trapdoor with noone apparently seeing the danger signs.....

...This season we may arguably have all three types (Fulham a yo yo club is a stretch admittedly) but the 'too good to go down' may well....

.....in future be termed as doing a Brighton
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I wouldn’t have thought, even before the season started, that Brighton “were too good to go down”.
 

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