Brighton Rock Podcast

The dastardly duo also known as co-hosts Russ and Pete were reunited at The Gladstone for the first time in nearly a year, to relive the Albion’s high and lows over a pint or ten and of course a chicken tikka pie each! Scrumptious!!! Cheers everyone! WARNING: THIS POD CONTAINS SOME MEDIUM SPICY SWEARING, IT’S ALL PETER’S FAULT!Stand or fall! UTA! Mmmmmm, pies!@BrightonRockPodbrightonrockpodcast@gm...

In this bumper episode Russ, Pete and Andy (of the Knott variety) are joined by pod squad debutant Steve Ferris, an Albion fan who’s the man in the middle, the bast....er, actually very much gentleman in the black and the proud owner of THAT match worn Will Buckley shirt. We bid an extremely fond farewell to absolute legend of The Albion Glenn Murray esq, talk Ben White for England, various men fo...

Andy Naylor joined Russ, Pete and Andy Bravery to talk us through his years covering The Albion from the Goldstone days of the mid-80s through to the delights of The Amex and the Premier League and his thoughts on the current incarnation of the team and club as a whole. There’s also half time oranges and as brief a chat about The Arsenal game as we could muster! Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Pete and Russ let Gooner Matthew Mattioli loose on a Zoom call to talk about all things Arsenal, including the Dirty Dozen ‘Super’ League, having a Partey, entitlement, how disagreeable Man Utd fans are, his love of Spurs and drinking pints of muddy water at The Evening Star in Dear Ole Brighty. He also makes the fatal mistake of trying to out-reverse-jinx us in the big match preview predictions....

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 P...

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...

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 ho...

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 suitabl...

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 i...

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 S...

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...