Albion came up trumps, FINALLY toppling ‘The Cityzens’ (3-2) in an emotional and dramatic night down in dear ole Brighty.5 goals were scored in total by the teams on Tuesday, so 5 guys tried to hit the target in this week’s pod squad: Russ, Pete, Andy K, Andy B and Richard.BDB spindled his way to glory with the comeback-completing third goal as Albion bossed possession like no-one has done to a Pep side before, the atmosphere was rocking from start to finish and all was well (except for the pies...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pete and Russ were rejoined by Albion podcaster and blogger Charlie Haffenden to preview the game between the world’s best team and Man City! ;)Russ also caught up with Man City match day presenter and staunch City fan Natalie Pike, to talk her love for her club, the wonderland that fans are currently experiencing and how the team for the game is anyone’s guess. She also wistfully reminisces about Maine Road.Stand or fall! UTA! Feed The Goat And He Will Score! We love you, Natalie!@BrightonRockP...
May 18, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pete and Russ were joined by young podcaster, blogger and budding journo Charlie Haffenden, to tell us how and when he became an Albion fan, how his Amex era love affair with the club is such that even 0-5 defeats to Bournemouth don’t hurt TOO much, how he enjoyed the charity livestream event a couple of months ago...complete with Lawro’s unwitting habit for drifting out of frame on Zoom!...and how annoying the trains past Gatwick can be on match day!!!We cover loads of ground on the footy news ...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast With lots of football news afoot, Russell felt the need to come back out to play. In this short pod extra he sums up news from Fulham, Tranmere, Sheff Utd, Swindon, Albion and Italy, amongst others and looks ahead to the Wet Sham game!Stand or fall! UTA!@BrightonRockPodbrightonrockpodcast@gmail.comPart of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather suitable address:www.sport-social.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 12, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast With just one week to go until cinemas are open again (whoo hoo!!!) we invited an excited writer, podcaster, cinema owner (and idiot according to him!) in the shape of Picture House, Uckfield’s Kevin Markwick onto the pod to tell us of his love of cinema,The Albion and talking! There’s mention of Lord Lucan, that Albion legend he likes, oh whatsisname?!, Bobby something, liking Woody Allen films in his schooldays, his Alien poster, podcasting on R4 and beyond & how pants that non-penalty decisio...
May 11, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this pod extra, Russ, Andy Bass, Jack and Pete had the pleasure of Albion academy graduate Danny Cashman’s company to discuss his 8 years with the club and the dawn of a new pathway after the announcement of his departure from the club for pastures new recently. And he said he can’t promise anything in the way of restraint if he scores a late winner against us in the future! ;)We also preview Sunday’s match versus Wolves at Molineux.Stand or fall! UTA!@BrightonRockPodbrightonrockpodcast@gmail...
May 07, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast The pod welcomed back Andy Bass and gave a debut to Jack Phillips this week to continue our ranting and further reflection on the past 2-3 weeks of greedy snorting at the football trough by the vulture capitalists and would-be assassins of the sport (we’ll never, EVER calm down about this vile assault on our beautiful game!), of major protests and staunch opposition to the proposals, the scheme’s collapse and its chief perpetrator, Florentino ‘Utterly Out Of Touch With Reality’ Perez’s continued...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Another Leeds game, another regulation win. Peter and Russ chat The Dirty Dozen, Dirty Leeds & that ‘filthy’ Welbs goal in the distinguished company of filmmaker and Albion fan Louis Myles, talking us through his Albion backstory from being born just after the final whistle had blown up at Wembley in ‘83 to tears at The Amex and about his career in sport - latterly as a sports documentarist of fine films such as Kaiser The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football (available on Prime throughout...
May 04, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Russell welcomed national level football presenter and reporter Dave Beckett to the pod for the first time. Dave talks us through his Albion backstory, his career in the game (there’s plenty of warmth for Des Lynam and the late, great Peter Brackley), the dire result in Sheffield, his views on Albion’s season and his take on The Dirty Dozen League / UEFA’s Swiss model alternative.Stand or fall! UTA! Good luck Hope Powell!!!@BrightonRockPodbrightonrockpodcast@gmail.comPart of the Sport Social Pod...
Apr 27, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yet another draw but also yet another clean sheet (50% ratio of success in that regard for Bobby Sanch aka El Pantera) and another step towards confirming our place in next season’s title race ;)We could have nabbed it towards the end but a point was a fair result and in what is an incredibly busy an eventful week we only had one option for getting this episode out and that was to record views immediately post match on our Zoom Terrace chat. Lucky for us then that The Gent, our northern correspo...
Apr 21, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast So it looks like they’ve finally done it. The vile, greedy gluttons that have snaffled control of some of our traditional giants (and Chelsea and Man City!) have announced the formulation of a twelve team European league comp that from the end of this podcast onwards will only be referred to by us as The Dirty Dozen League (DDL). They call it ‘super’. We don’t! It’s the very antithesis of super.These notes pretty convincingly plot spoil our opinions but have a listen anyway as BRP’s Russell link...
Apr 20, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the second part of the conversation with Tony Brown and Kirsty Stewart, we reveal the shocking outcome of our Chelsea match prediction poll, Kirsty’s shocking secret, talk breaking down pre-match in Cumbria, highlight UEFA’s powderpuffery on the racism front and marvel at Iranian footballers’ overhead kicking prowess vs Chelsea. Once all that’s done we preview the upcoming Battle of Stamford Bridge.Note briefly: this recording pre-dates the European Super League announcement. Russell intends ...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Late last week we sat down via Zoom to chat with Tony Brown & Kirsty Stewart, who have a keen interest in each other’s clubs as well as their own! Tony talks us through his background as a Chelsea fan and how he came to be a long-standing member of Seagulls Over London, despite his Stamford Bridge allegiance, while Kirsty delves into her Albion backstory from her earlier days in Eastbourne to being a fully paid up paper season ticket brandishing member at the dear ole Goldstone Ground.This episo...
Apr 19, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Peter, Russ, Andy Knott and Andy Bravery are in the squad for a look back at Albion’s goalless draw with The Toffees. Yes, ANOTHER home draw. No one has more draws than us this season now. But we had at least some great creation in the garden of Amex with the biblical talent of Messrs Lallana and Bissouma to covet!The boys also talk about potential changes to the squad and the status of those coming through the system.Stand or fall! UTA! And down with horrendously biased media coverage!!! @Brigh...
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special, we had the pleasure of 90 mins in the company of former Brentford and Sheff Utd player and long time Albion assistant manager Bob Booker, discussing his formative years in Watford, his playing career, the Albion years under Micky Adams, Peter Taylor, Steve Coppell, Mark “Pints O’ Whisky” McGhee and Russell “he’s got no hair, but we don’t care” Slade.We recount the Withdean era in all its rain-soaked glory, talk Millennium Stadium glory, Little Leon, damaged Play-Offs trophies, d...
Apr 08, 2021•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast We were rejoined this week by regular Robin Woolley and by friend of the show Brett Mendoza, landlord of The (rather excellent!) Caxton Arms pub in central Brighton, to find out about his journey through lockdown woes and onto the happier times of pub gardens reopening next week, with full returns also on the horizon.Then there’s the utter shock of us having experienced a woeful referring decision in favour of Man Utd to talk about. I know, we can’t believe it either! VAR didn’t think it Maguire...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast As we enter the final 9 games of the PL campaign (8 in Fulham’s case), we invited onto the pod Cottage Talk podcaster Emilio to give his views on the season to date and The Cottagers prospects for survival (and our’s) as the battle to avoid the bottom three starts to heat up. We did also invite Newcastle media / fans to join us to give their opinions but rather tellingly, absolutely NONE of them responded at all, let alone politely declining. The cowards (‘Steve Bruce’s’)!Then in our final segme...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In our third focus on the Sussex non-league scene, we cast our Gulls’ eyes along the coast to Worthing FC to catch up on what has been happening there since we last looked. Sadly it’s a case of “a new day, a new prematurely-ended season” as their promising start and the suggestion of another promotion campaign ahead was once again scuppered by Covid lockdown and league decisions. Adam Hinshelwood and his squad will be hoping it will be a case of third time lucky when things return to normal, and...
Mar 26, 2021•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Clinical finishing at The Albion? Why, of course!!! Yes, three of the best saw off woeful Newcastle as the team made it a rare back-to-back success on Solly March Day (20 March), which also happened to be Tony Bloom’s birthday (and that of one of our guest contributors, Robin!). But was this really a rare hone win? I mean, the boys stayed overnight in a hotel before travelling to the ground together by coach. Sounds suspiciously like an away game to us! Tross, Welbs and Maups (yes, Maups!) provi...
Mar 23, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Russell caught up with Stateside Albion podcaster Josh Goldsmith to talk with him about his Together For AITC 12 hour livestream fundraising initiative that takes place this weekend on Saturday 20th March 2021 midday-midnight on twitch.tv/togetherbha. Endorsed by The Albion and in aid of fund raising for the club’s charity wing Albion In The Community, the event promises to be quite the extravaganza with Paul Barber, ‘El Capitano’ Bruno Saltor, Mark Lawrenson, Andy Naylor, Kieran Maguire of Pric...
Mar 18, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast So Albion started brightly, took the lead, conceded an equaliser and then went on to lose to a late winner. You know the drill by now! But wait! Hang on! What’s this?! A change of match narrative? Yeah right, we’re not that GULLible. But no, it’s true...Saints alive! Yes that’s right boys and girls. We’ve matched their win at our’s earlier in the campaign (without the need for a dubious penalty though!). Adam Lallana completed another 90, Tross missed the Trossbar to score the winner and Andi Ze...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast With Albion again resting their worried bones this midweek (we are only just getting used to not having weekday games to review this lockdown!), we took the opportunity to speak to lifelong Albion fan, since his schooldays in the 60s, Ken Sharp.A fine chap, Ken tells us when and how he got into following the team, his early memories of big crowds and an alarmingly big defeat, a winning ticket, moving house on cup final day and a son’s party trick with the bannisters, right through to seeing the ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast It all started so well (the Leicester game that is, not the substandard pun-laced intro to this pod). But in the end it was peak Albion as we gave away yet another lead, failed to score more than one again, switched off at key moments to clinically-punished effect, screwed up the subs and conceded a late winner. Ah such cosy familiarity! On the upside, at least our players aren’t calling Graham a “coward”, unlike one from a certain club in the North East has allegedly done. Such sweet harmony!Th...
Mar 09, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a midweek extra we invited mother and daughter combo Margaret Wallis and Hannah Kowszun to make their BRP debuts and tell us about their Albion backstories, including how they’ve both somehow managed to get in trouble with the club (sorry Margaret, I know you’ll be cringing reading this!!!), how they’ve both managed to find non-football-loving men as partners and what they’ve made of the season so far, whether they think we’ll survive the threat of relegation and how they think we’ll fare thi...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week’s Pod Squad to discuss BHAFC’s 0-1 defeat at WBA are Russell Guiver, Peter Marsh, Robin Woolley & Richard Holberton.Another bad day for The Seagulls as Lee Mason demonstrated his refereeing ‘prowess’ with a shambolic farce of a mess to help Brighton on their way to another harmful defeat. The boys did their bit too by adding to their proud frame-of-goal strike rate in missing not one but TWO penalties! So there’s a rather animated debate to be had at BRP Towers and herein lies that ...
Mar 02, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week’s Pod Squad (Russ, Andy Bravery and Pete) had the great pleasure of welcoming to The BRP Albion’s 80s wing wizard Steve Penney, who talks us through his formative years in Ballymena, NI, his whirlwind move to England’s south coast, his years under messrs Cattlin, Mullers and Lloyd, struggles with injuries and them there’s that famous mullet!We also touch on the week’s footy topics, disappointing team news for the game at The Hawthorns and speaking of that game we also took in the Baggi...
Feb 26, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Well I suppose we have to talk about it! That outrageous travesty! That floodlight robbery...in THAT game of all games!!! We must warn you that a swear word sneaked out. Yes, we were that angry and frustrated...but it’s good to talk and we certainly tend to do a lot of that ALL the time ;)So help exorcise your own derby demons by listening to this here podcast episode, which analyses where it all went wrong but also offer hope and cheer too. Oh and there’s some general footy news as usual, too.C...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Richard Tipple made his BRP debut this week to divulge his Albion credentials in the company of Andys Bravery and Bass, plus of course team captains Russ and Pete. We cover the Villa game, invent the nickname “Roller” for Joel Veltman, predict a resurrection and look wistfully back to days of Withdean past, as well as sneering at P*lace. All in a day’s Zooming!Stand or fall! UTA! And Slippery Jack Who?!!@brightonrockpodbrightonrockpodcast@gmail.comwww.seagullsoverlondon.com Learn more about your...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Russ, Pete and Andy (of the Bravery variety) in the starting line up for FA Cup assessment duty, as a late, late concession settled matters in Lineker country on Wednesday night. We’ll catch up with the good, the bad and the decidedly ugly of this week’s wider football news and look ahead to our latest showdown vs a nemesis...mini shin pad man himself Slippery Jack Grealish. Cliche of the day: see first half of today’s episode title for details!Contact us:@brightonrockpod and / orbrightonrockpod...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast As normal service resumed at Turf Moor, we reflect on a typical encounter against The Gravel-Voiced One’s charges in the company of Andy Bass and also, we are delighted to say, our latest debutant Jon Bradshaw, better known Twitterspherically speaking as that dandy wordsmith The Brighton Bard. Jon talks us through the comedies, tragedies and history of his Albion affiliation and all the sweet, sweet sorrows and winter’s tales.There is also news of parish council spats, a Comedy of Errors in refe...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
