This week, we invited onto the show for his debut Phil Shelley from oldfootballshirts.com to tell us about his Albion backstory, his love of football kits, his Worthing affiliation and his thoughts on our new head coach. We also welcomed his old mate Andy Bass back to join in the chat. In part two, the always excellent Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap joined us once again to preview the latest encounter between our sides. And then there’s a short third part in which Russ rants about duplicito...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Here we go! After 10 days living in excited anticipation about who our next Head Coach would be we finally have the answer - and what an answer!!! Albion’s first choice and pretty much everybody else’s amongst the fanbase once they became familiar with his work and glowing credentials was officially confirmed on Sunday night (18th Sept), as Roberto De Zerbi, the 43 year old former Sassuolo and Shakhdar Coach. Rumours became widespread that the deal was done and that he’d been spotted in town. It...
Sep 19, 2022•2 hr 50 min
Russ, Pete and Andys Knott, Bravery and Bass converge to vent, mourn, lament and moan about the departure, announced this very day (Thurs 8th Sept) that Albion’s greatest ever coach so far Graham Potter has left the club with immediate effect in order to join Chelsea, or “some grubby leftovers out of the bins” as Andy Bass called them! The departure, it’s timing, the connotations and the future incumbent were under discussion in this pod extra. Stand or fall! UTA! Rest in peace Queen Liz II !!! ...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 29 min
A spectacular day at the AMEX Stadium as the Albion notched their highest goal tally of 5 in the course of thrashing Leicester City to secure their place in the top four for another week and give themselves a chance of going top when they play Bournemouth next weekend. But just won the skies could not have been bluer for the club, a dark cloud loomed in Chelsea shape as they sacked their manager Thomas Tuchel on Wednesday morning and quickly moved to ask for permission to speak to our Graham. …....
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Russ and Pete returned to The Glad for a transfer chat over a few beers. There was then a follow-up chat over some different beers on Saturday on the way to the St Albans v Worthing game and then finally Russ spoke to the fine fella that is Chris Forryan from Leicester Til I Die to gauge the mood ahead of Sunday’s game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 04, 2022•2 hr 58 min
Russell and co. at the game, then Russ and Pete back at their beloved Gladstone for the pies, the beers and the match review. Stand or fall! UTA! Chicken Tikka Pies! 🤤 @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social.co.uk Please follow us for automatic downloads of new episodes and if you want to make us really happy please rate us five stars on Apple and any other plat...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Pete and Russ were joined by friend of the pod Emilio Di Nello to review the weekend’s games and to look ahead to the latest intriguing encounter between Albion and Emilio’s beloved Fulham at Craven Cottage on Tuesday evening. There’s Jesse Marsch (terrible spelling!!!), a typical dirty Leeds team, arrogance and delusion as usual but in the end it was another win for the good guys, thanks to some perfect Pascal placement following a glorious 13 pass move. Can the run continue though, against the...
Aug 29, 2022•2 hr 30 min
Yes folks, for the first time we’ve decided to double up our match day specials by having two in one episode. This one covers our delightful win at the London Stadium on Sunday plus our comfortable victory in Nailsworth on Wednesday night as we advanced to the next stage of the League Cup, despite a curry sauce atrocity!. Russell was there for both, with some of the usual suspects and the bonus balls: the Albion Roar boys at the West Ham match. It’s all here! Stand or fall! UTA! Bernard!!!!!! @B...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr
Russ and Pete were delighted to welcome to the pod West Ham stalwart John Moncur to talk about his career in the game, Upton Park, what he’s up to now, his thoughts on the current West Ham team, his impressions of our exciting Albion side and to give us his prediction for Sunday’s encounter between our two teams. Stand or fall! UTA! Will Albion’s unbeaten BUBBLE burst on Sunday?! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all thei...
Aug 18, 2022•56 min
In this episode, Russell meets up with…Russell! The Geordie kind. There’s a post match special, chatting about the game followed by a separate interview with Ian “Harty“ Hart, talking about women’s footy, Newcastle and football in general. Stand or fall! UTA! Howay The Despotivians! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social.co.uk Please follow us for automatic down...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 14 min
In this episode, as the new season is just getting underway, Russ chatted with Littlehampton Town FC chairman Rob McAlees and Worthing FC matchday commentator and podcaster Peter Vale to revel in their clubs’ recent successes on the field culminating in promotions, how the summer preps had gone and their thoughts on their clubs’ respective prospects for the new campaigns at their new levels. There’s also a brief focus on last season’s other major Sussex football success story Hastings United, wh...
Aug 12, 2022•50 min
Russell was at the match to bring you the thoughts and vibes from Albion’s first ever win at OLD Trafford (and first league ‘result’ from there at all since 1983), in his mini matchday special. Then, back in Zoom Land, he caught up with fellow podcast stalwart Peter to get his first hand views from the game as the lads reviewed this delicious victory in more detail. And this throughly deserved win, which The Albion cruised to in some style, came despite the best efforts of Paul Tierney and his h...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Russ is joined by debutant Richie Mills from Sussex Live and re-joined by guest contributors Jack Phillips and Margaret Willis to run the rule over the summer window, the start of the EFL season, the glorious England Women’s triumph at The Euros (with some first hand experience in the house!) and of course preparations for Albion’s new campaign under the still bearded Graham Potter! Stand or fall! UTA! It’s come home…yes, England women!!!! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of t...
Aug 08, 2022•2 hr 1 min
Your host Russell Guiver was joined by guests contributors Andy Bravery and David Townsend, in welcoming to the pod for the first time a true Albion legend and cult hero, 70s goal machine and darling of the terraces Peter Ward. Wardy talks us through his formative years as a football-playing (and window breaking) obsessive, his time with the two Albions of Burton and of course BHA, the Forest / Clough years, his time in The States and his thoughts on the current crop of trailblazing star players...
Jul 22, 2022•2 hr 37 min
Russ and a lesser spotted Pete - fresh from agreeing his new £350k pw contract Salah style - are joined by Albion-supporting sports writer Spencer Vignes to tell us more about the bad news that 70s playing legend Peter O’Sullivan has been seriously ill in hospital with a bleed to the brain. He’s on the slow road to recovery now but we ask if the club could be doing more for this Albion stalwart? Also Spencer talks about his new up and coming book and we bring the Albion and general news up to da...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Russ this week caught up with Albion fan and quality sports documentary filmmaker Louis Myles to discuss his excellent new film Croatia: Defining A Nation, which tells the tale of a nation’s emergence from the shadows following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia to reach the main stage of global football in the second half of the 1990s. Louis also gave his opinions on Albion’s excellent season, his favourite game of the campaign and his thoughts on the talent emerging within the squad. To wat...
Jun 25, 2022•50 min
Mid June report looking at takeovers, transfers, England’s Nations League disaster and Albion news update - as Biss is on the brink of a move to Spuds while Enciso looks inbound. Stand or fall! UTA! Smell like I sound. I’m lost in a crowd. We lost to Hungary at The Wolves! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-social.co.uk Please follow us for automatic downloads of n...
Jun 20, 2022•59 min
In this extra, Russ caught up with The Anfield Wrap’s Neil Atkinson to find out more about the unsavoury events before and after the Champions League Final in Paris on Saturday. Stand or fall. UTA! Down with UEFA, the French Police and lying ministers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 03, 2022•32 min
A long awaited return to our favourite pub this weekend for some tasty beers and chicken tikka pies, the perfect fuel to power us through our review of the season, sun up the rest of the play off picture and report on the shameless scapegoatery infecting the French authorities and UEFA. Stand or fall! UTA! Fuck the French police! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address: www.sport-...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 24 min
To finish our coverage of Albion’s 2021-22 campaign we’ve put together a bumper 2 hour episode combining our popular Matchday Special format - comprising an array of the usual suspects plus debutants Pam (Sheebo’s mum) and Malcolm Rose (‘Cheshire’) - with a Zoom-based review the following day, featuring The Gent. Stand or fall! UTA! Mind the gap, mind the gap, Crystal P*lace @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glo...
May 26, 2022•2 hr 4 min
Your regular hosts Russell Guiver & Peter Marsh had a chinwag on Zoom on Friday, looking at the climax to the season featuring the play off semi and their pitch invasion controversies, non league matters, Albion’s final game v Wet Sham upcoming and relegation watch as two of our ‘favourite’ clubs Burnley and Leeds enter a foot race to avoid relegation. How our hearts bleed so! This episode also features a cameo from friend of the pod Robin. Stand or fall! UTA! Up The Bees!!! 🐝 🐝 @BrightonRockP...
May 22, 2022•2 hr 37 min
King Charles II, James May and Brian May wigs, Albion squandering a bunch of chances and Leeds fans being homophobic and aggressive. Standard! Joining Russell to discuss the matters of the day were Jack Phillips and, making his debut on the pod, his dad Graham. Albion snatched a draw from the jaws of victory in the dying minutes and those minutes really were dying! as yet another team that should’ve been put to bed…..weren’t! Stand or fall! UTA! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Par...
May 19, 2022•2 hr 33 min
We stuffed ‘em! Ooh yes! ManUre have been overdue this from us and boy did we oblige! It could and probably should have been more as Albion romped to a 4-0 win which keeps them 9th in the table. Russ requisitioned some of his usual ‘Noisy Boys’ and others besides - including We Are Brighton’s Scott McCarthy - to give their views and capture the mood on this magnificent day in the club’s Premier League history. Listen out for some Albion fans in the background shouting “SIU!” in the WSU and a ran...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 18 min
The return of the prodigal son! Yes, Wedge’s middle son George was back from Oz for the first time in over 2.5 years and went straight from the airport to his Dad’s waiting car at home in Bedfordshire for the trip to Molineux. 33 hours journey wasn’t going to stop him and what a game to pick as Albion blitzed their hosts 0-3 (it should have been more!) as they marched on to 9th in the table! Your intrepid host Russell came along for the ride. Couldn’t miss George’s first game back on his extende...
May 02, 2022•37 min
Well, that’s two home games unbeaten in a row and we scored goals from open play at The Amex….yes, really!!! Home match bogey boys Saaafmptn came to town and pegged us back after we had strutted into a two goal lead. Casting an eye each over these happenings were your regular hosts with the most Russ and Pete, plus pod regular Andy Bass. In part 2, the pod squad looked over the weekend’s other football events as the various divisional run-ins hotted up and made their predictions / declared their...
Apr 25, 2022•2 hr 42 min
It’s was a sunny St George’s Day down on the coast as Worthing FC’s own St George (Dowell, the owner) saw his beloved club lift the trophy via a final win of the season vs Brightlingsea Regent at Woodside Road. Pete and Russ were there for their final feature episode on WFC’s campaign, the end of a lovely series that was very handsomely enjoyed in 2021-22. There’s also a quick reflection on the Easter Monday visit to Horsham’s brand new stadium and on Albion’s latest fruitless trip to The Emptyh...
Apr 24, 2022•39 min
Another day in North London, another glorious win. Hey ho! I suppose we’ll just have to accept that 🎶 “North London is ours, North London is ours, we’re Brighton & Hove Albion, North London is ours!” 🎶 Yes Albion’s woes are behind them as they made it back-to-back wins in the capital and advanced to 40 points for the season, just one shy of our PL era points record. Russ and his crew were there to take in the delights of the day and to drink a taproom dry in celebration: standard! 😉 Stand or ...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 10 min
“We’ve scored a goooaa, we’ve scored a goooaa, we’ve scored a goal we’ve scored a goal we’ve scored a goal!” And then another! Yes Albion are back on track with a great win at The Emirates and our roving presenter from the north, Mr Alastair Jones, was there to document this glorious day, from pre match tipples to stadium vocals and a post match reflection back at the delightful Hammerton Brewery taproom. It’s all here, along with more merciless stick for Covid absentee Russ. Stand or fall! UTA!...
Apr 11, 2022•36 min
As the dust settles on yet another failed attempt by Albion to win a match in the Premier League, Pete and Russ welcomed Kieran Maguire back onto the podcast once again to discuss the latest Brighton & Hove Albion FC accounts that have been published in the last few days. We delve into the connotations of having lost just over £1 million a week throughout the last financial year, the record high wages bill being paid and ask Kieran’s opinion on Albion’s overall strategy and his thoughts on the c...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Back at The Amex and the crew had the pleasure of seeing Albion avoid defeat. Whoo hoo! 👀 We spoke to a Norwich fan and beer podcaster who’s driving a bus through Ukraine delivering aid of orphans after this weekend, to Brett from The Caxton - of who’s hostelry we had been imbibing ourselves! - and bumped into Nick Szczepanik. Stand or fall! UTA! Crab face! Boooo! @BrightonRockPod [email protected] Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min
