Brighton Rock Podcast

Does what it says on the tin. We further reflect on the West Ham game, look at the various bits of football news over the past week, including the utterly disgraceful decision by the BBC to censor free speech and preview the Leeds game. In short, we were brilliant, the BBC are the nation’s shame and UTA at Leeds! Stand or fall!   UTA! Standing with Gary Lineker 100% @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpo...

Peter and Russ down the pub post-SoL Paul Barber meeting, then our latest MDS featuring an array of shady characters including the presenters of not just one but TWO other podcasts! Roaring Together….sort of! Stand or fall!   UTA! Can’t touch this (team)! Hammer time! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at thi...

It’s over to our northern-based, seagulls-supporting mates and to some dedicated travellers from the south, as Alastair, Nick, Alan, Clive and debutant Scott, give us their takes from up at Stoke on a cold and windy Tuesday night in the FA Cup. Stand or fall! UTA! Fergie time again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russ welcomed onto the pod Ryan and Tiffany, two Brighton-based members of the Hong Kong Seagulls to tell us their Albion backstories and thoughts on the club ahead of the Fulham game. We then gauge reaction at the match, after Fulham’s spoiling tactics and jammy smash and grab win, before jumping to Tuesday and a quick word with some of Russ’s old college mates of mixed affiliations to get their...

More chat about the latest VARce at Smellhurst, about Albion supportership and the Fan Advisory Board, in the company of debutants Clive Steed and Nigel Summers, both of FAB, amongst other things. All this talk took place on a tour of 3 of South London’s finest taverns, whereupon another visit South was cunningly conceived for future poddage and mischief-making! Stand or fall!   UTA! @BrightonRock...

And so to the worst ground in the Premier League once again for a regulation 1-1 draw! That’s four times in a row now, and while we’ve had the better of them in most of those recent visits, in terms of matchplay, we don’t think we’ve ever seen quite such a dominant performance by Albion. All the more galling and frustrating then to come away with only a share of the spoils. At least we weren’t sub...

Your regular co-hosting duo are back to rant about Real, Barca, Juve, Man City, Grouchy Pep, The Saudis, Leeds, Huddersfield, the on-going Albion transfer speculation circus - now onto Mitoma to Arsenal for £35m 😂😂😂 - and then a preview of the latest incarnation of the Scum v Good Guys rivalry this weekend! Stand or fall!   UTA! Hark now hear!… @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Par...

After a quick bit of opinion pre-match at Falmer from Saturday, Russell welcomed The Gent back to give his (just past) half term report on The Albion’s season, his thoughts on De Zerbi Ball, Caicedo and the transfer window, the controversy at Mancashter Sheiky and of course analysis of Saturday’s latest victory, achieved thanks to another late winner from the man of the day, Kaoru Mitoma, who was...

Lots of “weird flips on the usual” this week: we podded from a new venue, thus spawning the new temporary nickname of The Pembury Taverners; Matthew, who we had on before only on Zoom, joined us in person at the pub (as did Laurence and QPR-supporting debutant Ed); and The Albion turned down three bags of mega cash from PL heavyweights. There’s also plenty of chat about the wider window, Caicedo’s...

Al and Nick took over hosting duties for the latest match day special, in which the mighty Albion, despite an absence of a certain Mr Moisés Caicedo, still took the spoils as Albion made it back to back victories in a fortnight against the mighty Liverpool Football Club. Some of the familiar voices were back too, namely Duncan, IFP, Alan, Alison and Ahmed, plus Alison’s dad! Next on the Cup hitlis...

Another bumper episode as the boys had PLENTY to talk about re: not only the Leicester game, but also transfers, sackings, controversy galore and the latest on Moises Caicedo and the Chelsea stalkers!….and all this recorded before Arsenal made a low bid and Moises handed in a transfer request!!! We’ll talk about that next time! Stand or fall!   UTA! F*** off Chelsea…again!!! @BrightonRockPod brigh...

In this bumper episode, justifiable for the pure glory of our scintillating win on Saturday, Russ and Pete co-hosted a strong Pod Squad comprising Andy Bass, Andy Bravery and Alan Dodd. Plenty was said on the magnificence of the performance at the weekend, on the transformative qualities of Roberto De Zerbi and on the fact that as Andy Bass said, “we are just so good it’s ridiculous!”. As well as...

In this latest episode, a general catch up including Robin’s thoughts on his first-hand witnessing of the thrashing of Boro, or Middlesborg as RDZ likes to call it! and a welcome to another debutant, Russell’s Film Fives https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/film-fives/id1554601490 cohort Phil Newman esq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Guest host Alastair and fellow Greater Manchester based Seagulls Nick and Dom provide the coverage as Albion roasted the turkeys that currently seem to be Everton, maintaining the team’s excellent away form. Kaoru, Evan and Pascal were again amongst the scorers as we romped to victory on another milestone night. The only disappointment came in conceding a late pen, a mistake which Spurs however DI...

In this episode, regular hosts Russ and Pete get together on Zoom to review the Saints game and reflect on other matters, such as the Charlton ticket fiasco, The World Cup, the appointment of a new women’s coach at The Albion, how our loanees are getting on and in the episode’s epilogue, reflect on the sad passing of a titan of the game, and possibly its finest ever player, Edson Arantes Do Nascim...

It’s been a while so here’s our latest episode, comprising Pete and I traipsing around the country ticking off grounds during the PL break - with mixed success, commenting on the genesis of the World Cup tournament, lamenting England’s latest exit and then for our main feature, welcoming onto the pod returning Albion and England fans Chris and Janet Jonas after their 4 week journey to the Middle E...

Russ was delighted to welcome back Stateside friend of the pod Amir Jafari who’s currently enjoying the World Cup, a tournament in which his native and citizenship nations Iran and USA respectively come up against each other AND England in Group B. There’s plenty to discuss including the situation in Iran and with regards to the tense fan / team relationship, thoughts on the FIFA Sham World Cup, t...

It’s Russ. It’s Pete (and his lovely wife Fiona) in a taproom (surprise, surprise) talking beer and guzzling nonsense - or something like that. Oh and there’s FIFA and Qatar rants again! Stand or fall!   UTA! Shut up, Infantino, you patronising and condescending embarrassment! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glo...

In this bumper episode, Russ and Pete are joined by sports writer, journalist and Albion fan Spencer Vignes and regular guest contributor Andy Bass to discuss the Villa match, Spencer‘s new book about two firm friends and former colleagues at the Albion and the upcoming sham that is the Qatari World Cup. Stand or fall!   UTA! F*^# FIFA!!! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the...

All the chat from up at The Emirates as The Mighty Albion got another thoroughly De Zerbied victory on North London soil. Then on the Saturday, Pete and Russ went ground hopping to Sutton and took time to talk about the Arsenal game and to have one final rant (for now! 😉) about Graham ‘Easy Life’ Potter! Stand or fall!   UTA! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social...

No time to talk about Albion’s latest win! We’ll cover that later, as this episode sees our first ever players’ wives and girlfriends guest join us, namely Alexis Mac Allister’s charming ‘other half’ Camila Mayan. On Monday, Russell met up with her in Brighton to chat about her experiences coming over to England to join up with Alexis in the middle of the pandemic of 2020, what’s she’s made of lif...

A bumper cast of characters, namely Russ, Pete, Andy Bravery, Andy Knott and Alan, descended on Brighton Rock Towers to celebrate the pod’s 250th episode milestone and THAT win vs Chelsea, in the aftermath of a right old post-match row over the vigorous and sustained booing of the club’s recent but now estranged heroes. Russ invented a new word, “ramblage” and I think Peter may have popped one on...

They left, they returned, they got battered. Say no more! 😂👏💙 Stand or fall!   UTA! Poetic justice! 💙 @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 really happy please rate us...

Pete and Russ buggered off to Newport in Wales to tick off their shared 85th ground visited out of The 92. So after a brief intro from there the pod went off to Manchester in the company of guest MDS host Alastair, who spoke with (now local to there) friend of the show Dominic Wales and (already long standing local to there) Nick Ansley - his niece is a Team GB hockey star, you know! After all tha...

Another game, another night of frustration, as Albion failed to beat a very poor Forest side, despite utter domination of the ball and copious attacks on goal. Listen in to experience just how frustrating it all was! Stand or fall!   UTA! Trossbar is BACK! @BrightonRockPod brightonrockpodcast@gmail.com Part of the Sport Social Podcast Network that can be found in all their glory at this rather sui...