Game Forty Eight - Brighton home

27th January 2009

Brighton away... it's where our incredible unbeaten league run started. How ironic if it was to be them that were to end it 3 months later on a similar cold night to when we visited the Withdean back at the end of October. A lot has happened in such a short space of time both around the club in general and out on the pitch. Many of us look back to that night as the moment that kick started our season. Blowing a two goal lead proved that we were not the untouchables that we imagined ourselves to be and woke us up to the realisation that there was a lot of fight in the teams from league one. It was just what we needed!

I left work at normal time for the game, not in the mood to stay any later than needed and headed into the city centre to get food and to visit the bookies for a cheeky bet. Met up with Jimmy in town and we made the walk to the Walkers in the rain. I had to return my coach ticket for saturday so headed into the ticket office and bumped into the two Joes. Also ended up having a quick chat with bald Jim who took great pleasure in pointing out that I was in the programme for the game.... Oh joy!! I think this is actually the only crowd picture from Yeovil that doesn't feature Lil' Dave in some way - the media whore!

After the fun in the ticket office, we headed into the 1884 bar to chill out for a bit before kick off where we soon ran into Helen and Jobber who seemed to have a similar idea. With 25 minutes to go, I headed round to the turnstiles to meet up with Katy ahead of the game instead of at half time. We had a good laugh at the awful photos and randomly chatted before heading up to meet the old man and enjoy what would hopefully be as entertaining a game as Saturdays.... I was wrong. Brace yourself for possibly the shortest match report so far....

The main thing to recall from the game was that Brighton were wearing leicester's away kit due to a kit clash with the one they had brought with them. That was about as exciting as things got!

The first real chance was a defleceted effort by Andy Kind midway through the first half which looped up and hit the crossbar. The rebound falling to Matty Fryatt who headed it straight at the keeper with the goal at his mercy! A brilliant chance wasted.... and that's the first half report done. It really was as poor as that!!

In the second half, Dickov tested the keeper with a diving header but that was his only real contribution of the game - he's a shadow of the player who played for us in his previous spell at the club. All the buzz about him returning here has long gone and he's no longer cheered onto the pitch like a hero.

Brighton closest efforts came from some good crosses that no one managed to get on the end of.... and King scraped the post with another deflected effort.... and thats the second half done.

Awful game and not deserving of any more of my time in all truth - Brighton came here with a game plan to not get beating and they succeeded thanks to a lack of ideas up front from us and their insistance on playing with many men behind the ball. We can't complain though as it's a tactic that we have used ourselves in the past and we always knew that teams would try that when they came to the Walkers this season. Hard to believe that Brighton have taken four points off of us this season! I just hope that we get slightly more entertainment in the game next Saturday against Northampton - a game that I should be looking forward to but for some reason is feeling rather flat at the moment. I just hope that that feeling changes come kick off.... at least it will be a new ground for game 49 of the season!