MATT BISHOP explains why close-knit Brighton have every chance of going one step further than last year…

BRIGHTON & Hove Albion haven’t been a club you can closely associate with success over the years. Heady days in the early 1980s provided some colourful history for the Seagulls – and an FA Cup final appearance – but it was only a brief flirtation with England’s top-flight.
It was followed by nomadic years of mistreatment by dodgy ownership and time playing at a converted athletics stadium that was once a zoo.
However, things on the sunny south coas...