Brighton Rock Podcast

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...

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 fin...

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! U...

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 imm...

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. T...

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 Br...

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 bein...

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 com...

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...

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 decisio...

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 r...

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...

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 togeth...

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 extravagan...

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 th...

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, mo...

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...

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...

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...

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, disa...

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...

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 Jac...

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...

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, swe...

Struggling to get results, eh?! We really don’t know what you mean. Yes, it was another regulation win against the big boys 😏 as we inflicted LFC’s first ever home league defeat in a Mo Salah-featured starting 11 and it was thoroughly deserved - just like the Spuds 🥔 game. Andy K linked up well with the front two of Pete and Russ to cause problems for the opposition but who’s claiming the winnin...