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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of t...
Aug 08, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glo...
May 26, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Par...
May 19, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast “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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's time to round off the Dick Knight box set with the 4th and final part, taken from the concluding part of our second interview with the great man himself, Sir Dick Knight. In this episode Dick talks us through the processes, challenges and stresses of steering the planning process towards our ultimate goal of a permanent home back in dear old Brighty, which was finally achieved just over a decade ago. Stand or fall! UTA! Fans united, will never be defeated! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodca...
Apr 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dick Knight Box Set Part 3/4. In this episode we welcome club legend Dick Knight back onto the pod for another conversation talking about Dick’s time running the club during the Withdean years. There’s many a tale to tell including how Dick persuaded some higher profile managers in and how Albion managed to get Bobby Z down to dear ole Withers and ‘turn’ him into a striker! Stand or fall! UTA! Viva El Presidente! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Net...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Russ, Peter and Andy (of the Bass variety) chewing the fat of the Spuds game while they work their way through Clapton Beer’s micro pub charms (in Stroud Green, don’t you know) ahead of the Potters Bar v Worthing match just to the north east of The Smoke. Listen out for WFC’s AwayBoys in action, we chat to Brad of that parish (and Albion’s), and to Worthing boss and former Albion CB Adam Hinshelwood! Stand or fall UTA and The Rebels aka The Mackerel Men Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...
Mar 24, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Russell invited his neighbour Mike Cotton down the local cafe for a coffee and a chinwag to talk about his lifelong love of his hometown club Spurs, his career as a musician working with and rubbing shoulders with some huge names of the industry and giving his not-so-confident thoughts on his team’s looming clash with The (win-overdue) Albion. Stand or fall! UTA! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this r...
Mar 16, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast A two part pod this time, with some of the usual suspects down the pub post match, then a two-hander on Zoom with your resident hosts, describing how against all odds ;) we lost a game of football in early 2022! Stand or fall! UTA! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com 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 rea...
Mar 15, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this mini episode, Russ and Pete spoke to Harriet Prior from The Anfield Wrap ahead of The Reds visit to Brighty this weekend. Harriet talks about her Liverpool-supporting backstory, how it’s been in her time up in that great footballing city since joining The Wrap and what her thoughts are on the big game. We only briefly and gently mentioned relegation battlers Everton in passing ;) Stand or fall! UTA! Once more unto the breach, dear Seagulls! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com ...
Mar 11, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast With Russ moonlighting at the Sussex derby at The Pan Siro (The Dripping Pan), Manchester’s finest, Alastair, took up the reigns to bring all the talk and atmos’ from Albion’s long trip north to face Britain’s now least palatable club at St James’ Park. At least the Geordies Al spoke to were as friendly a bunch as always so fair play to them. Stand or fall! UTA! Down with sportswashing! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in a...
Mar 08, 2022•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s back in The Zoom Room for a post match review pod featuring Russ, Peter and Andy K. After hearing the matchday thoughts from some usual suspects including a welcome return to the UK and the pod for Basel based Tipsy Tim Palmer, Peter, Russ and Andy dissect Albion’s frustrating performance in more detail before looking at senior team development in general this season and glancing at the loan progression in The Championship and other matters. There is also time to have a pop at FIFA, Leeds, ...
Mar 03, 2022•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the pain and frustration of a dreary failure against Bogey Boys Burnley FC, we need cheering up, so it’s time for the second part of our initial conversation with club prez and all round Albion legend (should be Sir) Dick Knight. In this part, Dick covers B*ll Arch*r, helpful David Davies and his less helpful colleagues at the FA, an outrageous bond requirement, Martin Perry, prising control of The Albion, Dick’s Crawley Town FC proposal, fan power, Arch*r’s football club affiliation revea...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast A combo episode this time incorporating our latest Fanzine Special with the Burnley Matchday Special. Russ met the creator and the co-editors of the recently started Dogma Fanzine, a publication of high production quality dedicated to the subject of Albion fan culture, celebrating all the quirks of the great city of Brighton & Hove and looking at football culture in general. It’s great and they were good value, talking us through their Albion stories and the genesis of the fanzine. We then had t...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
