👶 First smuggled through the turnstiles at the Goldstone Ground in 1978, I’ve been riding the Albion rollercoaster ever since — through the mud, the magic, and the moments that still make your spine tingle.

🎟️ I watched from the terraces as dreams were born and heartbreaks were handed out. I stood at Withdean with a plastic seat and a plastic poncho, and I was at Hereford in '97 when survival meant everything — knees trembling, heart pounding, forever changed.

🌏 In 2010, I swapped Sussex for South Australia, but the Albion stayed stitched into my soul. For the past 4 years, I haven’t missed a single televised game — 📺 midnight kickoffs, 💥 midweek carnage, 🎯 last-minute winners, all of it.

💙 It’s not just a club, it’s the soundtrack to my life — from the Goldstone, to Gillingham, to Withdean, to the Amex. From pitch invasions to European nights, and even from 10,000 miles away, I’m still very much there.

🕊️ Up the Albion.

I first started following Brighton in the last year or two of Gus Poyet's reign at the club. Being an Aussie lad, following Brighton at the time was a struggle for info besides reading about the results in the Adelaide Advertiser. I was in a work place with quite a few Brit expats, so it was a melting pot of supporters - Man U, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Swindon Town, West Ham, Spurs and of course, Palace. I didn't know of the Palace rivalry at the time but that ****** made sure I found out.

It all opened up for me when we were promoted to the Premier League and Optus Sport made it real easy to follow Brighton. I'll never forget watching our first game in the PL against City - we played out of our skins, and losing 0-2 didn't feel too bad - at least it wasn't 0-5.
We've come a long way since that first game - managers and players that I thought would stay forever were replaced with better. As an AFL supporter, it was an eye opener at how cut throat the moving on of players and managers, is.
It's safe to say I'm a Brighton tragic - I don't miss a game and am always getting up at stupid o'clock for kick off or catching up with Rod and Peter at the Adelaide Casino to watch our great club, play on the big screens.

Without doubt, Brighton & Hove Albion is the greatest and best run and owned football club, in the world. We are more than a club, we're a family.