Brighton Rock Podcast

Haven’t won at home all calendar year, you say? Not to worry, Dr. Brighton is here to remedy your ailments. They’ve recently cured Crystal P*lace’s century-long inability to do the double over The Albion AND found a miracle cure to Leicester City’s frankly pathetic scoring record these past 3/4 months. To talk you through Dr. Brighton’s marvellous medicinal methods is Russ, Pete, Duncan Lees, Jim...

Shambles. Not good enough. That is all! Stand or fall! UTA! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pod Squad donned their Hazmats and endured the festering swamp that is Smellworst, helped to out sing the chavlettes and cronies in the home end (with Andy K starting a new song for good measure) until their luckily-deflected winner settled matters and then again for most of the rest of the half until it finally became apparent that the good guys weren’t going to be able to break down their lo...

Pete and Russ welcomed P*lace-supporting friend of the show Toby Kinder onto the pod to talk (as little as possible) about the mutually awful midweek disasters, to chat about the season as a whole and to look ahead to some obscure meaningless fixture we are hardly thinking about whatsoever taking place this weekend in a dreadful backwater of England’s bloated capital. Stand or fall!   UTA!  Get yo...

The pre-, during and post-match chat is all here from the brewery, bus, stadium and car ride home as Albion and Forest cancelled each other out, culminating in a shoot-out victory for the visitors. Featuring many of the usual suspects and a Forest fan too! Stand or fall!   UTA!  #concentrateontheleague @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social...

Russ and Pete, chatting all things FA Cup with the doyen of cup facts, stats and trivia, Mr. Phil Annets of @FACupFactfile fame, as we look forward with anticipation to Albion’s latest Quarter Final appearance against Nottingham Forest this weekend. Stand or fall! UTA! Come on Fulham ;) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ & Pete welcomed Craig Clayton to the pod to tell us about his beloved Barnet FC’s plans to return to the local borough from relative exile in Edgware. Craig is part of the campaign group hoping to raise awareness and support for their bid to return home, with a site very close to their cherished ancestral home (now a school!) at Underhill being the location identified. As well as telling us h...

A stellar array of Albion friends were up in force on the occasion of the team’s first ever point at The Etihad (means The Union, apparently) and busily contributing to this bumper MDS episode. Debuts for Irish Seagull Jack, for Vicky Lees, Johnny Gresty (over from The States) and possibly also his nephew George (over from Oz) and also Rod from Hailsham and Marian from Eastbourne. Your insatiable...

This week we were delighted to welcome back to The BRP once again, football finance guru and spreadsheet devil Kieran Maguire to give us his assessment of Albion’s very favourable looking latest published accounts, showing another handsome profit. And it was a full ‘studio’ with Russ, Pete, Richards Holberton and Tipple AND our regular Fulham correspondent Emilio all in to also discuss the weekend...

Some of the usual suspects plus some of the more UNusual, taking in the atmosphere of the day, for a pod available on some of the usual platforms plus (maybe?!) some of the more UNusual. There was a glorious comeback win complete with last minute penalty alert, breaking a ridiculously long hoodoo, loads of singing on the usual (train) platform and some weird beer. Business as usual (and UNusual),...

Just like the midweek game before it, another highly entertaining and more importantly impressive winning performance from The Albion at happy hunting ground St James’ Park, to progress to the quarter finals and a potential revenge exercise at home to Forest. Discussing the match and the rest of the weekend’s key action, including a highly impressive draw for the women against the Chelsea machine,...

So Albion made it four wins in a row (and three in the league) as they completed a seemingly unlikely double over AFC Bournemouth on Tuesday night. Russ and members of the Pod Squad were there to see what proved to be a highly entertaining and closely contested game. Stand or fall!   UTA!  Anyone for ice cream?! ;) @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the...

Another fine and dandy day out watching the football as Albion romped to a resounding 0-4 win at St Mary’s. Russ and the pod squad were there to soak it all up but the day was also indelibly marked with tragedy as we heard the awful news that morning of the passing of our great friend and sometime contributor to this podcast Andy Gresty aka Wedge / Wedgee who took himself away from pain to hopeful...

With Chelsea safely despatched from the FA Cup last weekend, attentions turned six days later to ridiculous 8pm kickoff part two and a Brighton breezy 3-0 ‘sweep aside’ of our dearly beloved London visitors! Winning that game meant one double was achieved for the Albion in the shape of back-to-back home wins against Chelsea, but it wasn’t the only double for Brighton at the weekend. That’s because...

It was just the reaction the boys in the stripes needed to provide and they did so, thanks to an accomplished headed finish from Smiler and a delicious low chipped winner by Mito, leaving an array of objectionable ex-Seagulls in his wake, sprawled pitifully upon the hallowed turf of Albion. Evenings (far too late evenings, thanks a lot ITV you selfish bastards!) don’t get much better than this and...

This week’s Pod Squad comprised a trio of Andys including the lesser spotted Andy Bravery and making his (Zoom pod) debut, Wedge aka Andy Gresty, plus Andy Bass and of course the only 100% man over these 407 pods, Russell G. We wanted to just talk about the weather and the price of fish but felt obligated to discuss something of an aberration by The Trent as Forest, spearheaded by the most nominat...

Russ and Pete popped down The Glad (been too long again!) and were delighted to be joined by Dogma’s finest James and Parker, to reflect on the Everton game and to big up the latest edition of the ‘zine (the world’s finest, don’t you know!) the upcoming charity game at Woodside Road, the fresco and mural culture around the town and their magnificent selection of merch’. There’s also an engrossing...

Russ and Pete saw Everton were heading for the coast and thought “sod that!”, electing to follow The Mighty Rebels’ fixture over in Kent, in an important promotion six-pointer. Surprise, surprise, the Everton game turned out to be a typically turgid, anti-footballing affair while The Stones v Rebels clash was entertaining and fun. R&P obviously took the opportunity to sample some of the local quaf...

Yes it’s all about the threes! Another three points as we complete three successive wins at Old Trafford, under three different managers, completing three wins in a row, which happen to all be away wins within the space of one week! Happy days! Albion made their superiority count as they came away with all three points yet again from the Theatre of Leaks. In this episode Russ and Pete were zooming...

Russ and The Gent, straight after the match revelling in Albion’s first league win in 9. Mito back on the scoresheet and another strike for Georgi. Happy days! Now let’s do the double over ManUre! Stand or fall!   UTA!  Christian Walton, he’s one of our own! @BrightonRockPod on BlueSky (and Twatter) brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all the...

We are UP FOR THE CUP! And we really were on Saturday, riding an early threat from Norwich to eventually romp home 0-4. A great day out, a great performance and some fantastic positives to be taken from the game, including a welcome return for Danny Welbeck, a welcome and sensational appearance from the bench for Solly March, some really good goals including an overdue strike for Julio Enciso and...

Russ further mused on the draw with Arsenal before welcoming back FA Cup facts and stats guru Phil Annets to talk us through the eye-catchers of this 3rd Round weekend, to pop in some interesting facts and to proffer both the head-to-head stats for The Canaries vs Albion AND some quirky trivia on the same subject. There’s also Russ’s thoughts on the possible team for the weekend…shame he couldn’t...

Well, well, well! Who’d a thunk it?! 5 years on, 400 episodes in and still waffling for England! But that’s enough about Peter… it was a match day of magnitude as Albion went head-to-head against title pretenders Arsenal. And then there’s all the chat from the Villa game before that, courtesy of our northern correspondents and the aforementioned waffler Pete. A bumper episode for the ages! Stand o...

Well here we went again. Another day, another underwhelming result. We spoke to Billy ‘The Bee’ Grant ahead of the game to get the opposition view (just before Christmas) and then Russ, Alan, Duncan and Alex Lees, Chris, Kevin, Wilts, Dan and Fin’ all gave their thoughts as the action eventually unfolded on 27th. Then in the final part of the episode The Brighton Rock Podcast paid tribute to Bill...

An array of Albionistas on board for the latest MDS, coming to you from in and around The London Taxpayers’ Arena, including Duncan Dunsmore-Rouse, Wedge, Andy Bass, FAB chairman Clive Steed, Mo, Pete, Courtney, Ian ‘from’ Portsmouth, Andy K, Duncan Lees and West Ham fan John. The pod also began with a nice healthy rant about the FIFA mafia’s sham awarding of the 2034 World Cup tournament to civil...