The Fall and Rise of Brighton
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Today, Brighton and Hove Albion are a model of how a football club should be run.
They punch above their weight. They unearth excellent players. And they play watchable football.
But it hasn’t always been the case. Seb Stafford-Bloor charts their rise from nearly collapsing as a football club. Craig Silcock illustrates.
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Morning everyone: we got our Wills mixed up here - Will Buckley scored the double against Doncaster, not Will Hoskins. Our mistake - have a great day.
All good lads
Deserves the recognition - Will Buckley was very much the proto-Kaoru Mitoma
No drama! Bienvenue
Thank you! Great video nevertheless.
Please don't get your will mixed up-Leave tifo to the Athletic pls
Something that’s so cool about Brighton’s rise is each manager going slightly further than the last. Hughton won promotion and kept them up with good looking football, Potter ascended to mid-table and defined the culture of attacking football and a team of young stars, De Zerbi is challenging for Europe and is entrenching that. All three have played their part magnificently,
Hughtonball was not good looking in the slightest, those were some dready, scrappy years fighting for survival in the Prem.
Hughton ball was defensive lol
We played some great football under Hughton in the Championship, not so much in the Prem though
@@argartu9875 that's what you need when you gotta stay in the best league
lets all forget about hypia please
Thanks for this, Tifo. As a Brighton supporter, it made me feel quite emotional. How far we have come.
If you don't win anything this season and you sell half of your team and don't use that money to rebuild than you're irrelevant point of an elite sport is to win trophies not to play nice football
@@vghiknbopkvdd665rdzzAfgg Football isn't all about winning. Brighton have been on the up for years. It's a long process. Players will definitely be sold over the summer but not half of the team.
@@vghiknbopkvdd665rdzzAfgg cringe
@@jeromheath football is not about winning? What is it about than? 💀
@@vghiknbopkvdd665rdzzAfgg Supporting your local club. The ups and downs, the progression. It's a big part of the community.
Our club's story is starting to be told. Hard not to cry right now in all honesty
I hope ye go into liquidation.
@@C_T372 what is wrong with you 😂
@C_T372 not gonna happen mate 😂
@@C_T372not anymore with the money they got this season
I was 12 when we left the withdean but I remember so many rainy days wondering if we would ever make it this point. The last 5 years have felt like a vivid, crazy dream.
Plastic ponchos a plenty
My school does sports day at withdean stadium and I’m a Brighton fan
As a Bournemouth fan I'd love to see one of these about us. Brighton are a fantastic team and it's great to see them do so well coming from where they did.
Brighton are what every club should aspire to be. They're a wonderful representation of our city. Honest, thoughtful, well run and fans put at the forefront. And we got to sneakily watch the stadium being built via livestream when we were supposed to be working in school!
This video is so well made, the animations are brilliant. The seagulls had me laughing 😂 We are lucky to have you, Tifo
Brighton were League One champions in 2010/11, the final season at Withdean, not Champions in 2011-12 which the graphic suggests. Also it was Will Buckley who scored the goals against Doncaster in the opening league game, not Hoskins.
I think they meant "2011-12 Championship Season"
I was born in Brighton, and while I've inherited supporting West Ham from my mother, it means a lot to see them in the PL and performing so well. I remember long chats with a friend who genuinely thought they were going to see them play their last game in the 90's
I'm a Stockport County fan and I went to a game at the Withdean Stadium in 2009, we'd just entered administration but were more or less safe from the drop regardless of the result barring some miraculous results meaning Crewe and Northampton would have had to score something like 7 goals each which obviously didn't happen and we lost 1-0 and whilst I was annoyed at the result, I was so pleased for Brighton staying up, I had a drink, sang some songs and generally had a proper laugh with some Brighton fans after the game, whilst I'm certainly not a Brighton 'fan', they're a club I definitely keep an eye out for. Whilst I doubt we're going anywhere near Brighton's level, it's encouraging to see how they have done and with our ground improvements starting this summer and massive investment into the club it makes me optimistic that we could become an established C'ship club one day!
Fantastic video, amazing that you're telling the story of the club I was a season ticket holder at for 10 years at the Withdean and the Amex... But the double goalscorer vs Doncaster was Will Buckley, not will Hoskins (sorry to be that guy)
Where his "reward" was to be sold to Sunderland where he pretty much flopped (although also injuries).....
Quite right!
@@Tifo Another correction: in 2001 it was still the Third Division and not League Two
As a Man United fan, one player who often gets overlooked at Brighton is Welbeck. He's been brilliant since he's gone there.
I’ve fallen in love with Brighton so much over the last few years, I even named one of my dogs after them. I’m so happy to learn more about their upbringing through good ownership and loyal fans; I hope we see the same with Wrexham.
It’s hard to keep up the kind of growth Brighton has had, especially with the budgets that they have. But they do really conduct some quality business as well as developing players really well.
The next few steps will be the hardest I think as they want to look upwards, but as a club, they have immense potential.
This short MASSIVELY undervalued Bloom’s impact. He’s changed the way in which clubs buy players. He was at the forefront of x betting patterns (the likelihood of an event in any given game) which became the xG’s that a so prevalent now. He could predict, with high certainty, what team would win. A lot of huge betting firms buy his algo’s, just because they’re so accurate. And he used that same method in buying players - working out who was undervalued. He took the concept of Moneyball and perfected it. The man is a genius, and a deadly negotiator (see Chelsea’s outlay on failed acquisitions). He might not have the financial might of the biggest clubs, but he knows far more than the heads of those clubs.
Would just like to clarify that the two goals against Doncaster in the first game at the AMEX were scored by Will Buckley, although Hoskins scored two bangers for us in his stint at the club. Great video!
Thanks for making a short and sweet summary of Brighton. I've been reading on and listening to podcasts etc to learn more about the clubs history. I'm a South African fan, started following Brighton 3 years ago, I could never prior to that find an English club I liked. I grew up loving Bayern (and my dislike for sides like Chelsea, United etc was established) but the BuLi largely became irrelevant and all my friends were always supporting EPL sides. Brighton ignited that passion in watching footy again, the joy of winning, the pain of losing, watching attractive football. Never wanting to miss a single game, always excited for the next. Never experienced this feeling with Bayern. I do love this club and I'd love to one day visit the Amex. UP THE ALBION!!!
Hands down the best run club in the Prem rn.
I love how in the thumbnail they place Mitoma and Mac Allister but the reality the most expensive and probably the most consistent best player has been 21-year-old Caicedo. He doesn't get the same love because he comes from a tiny country called Ecuador.
yes. Caicedo gets the highest salaries now. mitoma gets the least. why? he didn't wish to raise his salary, but wished his teamate stay. He is reluctant but his unselfishness and uniqueness attract us.
In 1997 I was a 13 year old Brighton fan and genuinely scared that my club was about to die. If you had told me then that 25 years later Brighton would be beating Liverpool, Man U etc. and qualifying for Europe I would have laughed in your face and not stopped laughing for the rest of the week. The rise since those dark days has been remarkable!
I remember going as a child to withdean, it was a dump, never any parking and was miserable whenever it rained. Although I will miss the bloke who set off fireworks in the woods whenever we scored
As a Seagulls supporter since the 2010-11 season, this video made me so emotional to see how far our club (as supporters) has come. Thank you.
Brighton’s a great city and deserves a top club.
I know this is silly but I’ve been a fan of Brighton’s since I picked them as my FIFA 13 career mode club because I liked their kits and I wanted the challenge of promoting a team out of championship to compete in the prem. Subsequently I figured I’d support them as a club beyond my little video game campaign.
Look at them now! (Kits are still cool too!) 🎉
This is becoming me with fm now😭😭
I was there for the bus tour while studying in Brighton, was so cool. I still have a Brighton top and mug I brought back to South Africa.
An excellent documentary. An incredible story. Thank you for making this!
I didn't know Brighton's story until watching this video, but even not knowing their history, I would have said it's hard not to like this club. Beautiful stadium, a fun team to watch, and great supporters. I'm a Fulham supporter, but I definitely wish this club and their fans all the best.
I remember going to watch brighton while they were still in leauge 1 my first football match i will never forget it.
Close, Tifo. The goals on the opening of the Amex were both scored by new signing from Watford, Will Buckley, not Hoskins. However, this is a great primer for our recent woes. Thanks muchly.
I'm a Pompey fan but I have massive respect for Brighton. They are everything Pompey must become to succeed again.
I’m not a Brighton supporter, but this made me cry
Its crazy how much we owe to knight and bloom, as soon as we had the amex there was a feeling that we were a Premier league team in waiting
Brighton became a joy to watch, with players who are a target for every top team
Thank you for this series and another ones, brief but lovely
In 2000/2001, the fourth tier was still called Division 3. The renaming of the leagues to Leagues One and Two didn't happen until 2004/5
For a Brighton fan born in '98 it's been a great journey
I can still vividly remember the ‘build a bonfire’ chants about Archer and Bellotti.
Still sung now from time to time and never gets tired
It is nice to see a club like Brighton doing well ⚽
Best managed club in the Premier League and they just keep signing young lads from nowhere and turned them into superstars
Can we please have some more longform interviews feat. Jon Dog aka King of the Goblins? They've been excellent thus far, esp. his interview with Jonathan Wilson.
Stuart Storer who scored the last goal in 1997 was my colleague tutor when I moved to the midlands. Always used to always play the clip!!
This video is so well made, the animations are brilliant.
you telling me a clause just **happens** to be omitted like that?! no! they orchestrated it!
Proud to be a Brightonian thank you BHAFC and all it’s representatives ❤️⚽️❤️⚽️❤️
Fantastic video, amazing that you're telling the story of the club
Great story and good video. Only thing that separates it from being a great video is the blur when text moves horizontally. E.g. @ 1:28 Bill Archer's and Greg Stanley's names are a bit hurtful to watch while panning, and David Belotti whose name fades in as the visual stops moving is fine.
Cheers
One of your best and entertaining videos as of late, thanks for the effort. The opened beak seagull that kept pooping up was a nice touch.
Brighton are what every club should aspire to be. They're a wonderful 😊representation of our city.❤️❤️❤️
This is actually amazing
Brighton reminds me of Bolton in 2001 when they got promoted to premier league, the squad was great under Big Sam
What you miss with saying Brighton missed out on promotion the year before was the debarkle that was then manager Guy Poyet leaving the club at the end of the season for a bigger club right in the middle of the playoffs which totally destabilised the team at a critical moment of the season.
They have a Bright(on) future ahead of them!
You didn't really talk about their Rise.
They are beating top dogs in the Premier League and are in the top 10 this year.
I still don't believe that Brighton have a better scouting department than the big sides.
Brighton are just more willing to give raw talents the time and patience to excel.
The top 6 sides are so obsessed with immediate success they can't wait for raw talents to come good.
Exactly. Most people see it differently. It's like they got great scouts or something. It's more like they have more patience and more willing to take risks.
They actually use data analytics to scout talent. Brighton's owner, Tony bloom formerly owned a data analytics company and they used that to identify talents across the world. Tifo has already made a video on this I guess.
@@TheRandomQubeofficial Can't imagine Brighton are the only club to use data analytics when scouting players. Most clubs probably do that these days.
I mean they can afford to let clubs like Brighton do the work of scouting and signing raw young players, develop them into high PL quality and then sign them for 60m pounds. Sign those players themselves would mean they'd have to risk their competitiveness which is something they're apparently not willing to do.
But seriously they're not even ready to give their own youngsters the game time, how do you expect them to do that with young talents from abroad who will have to settle and get used to english football first. Developing players has turned into a lower club habit, the big guns just take and don't give
@@tilikumtim5562 This is true, but Brighton have an edge, because 1) the company producing the data is better at it/more thorough with it than those used by other clubs, and 2) they are the only club who get to use that data, because it effectively belongs to Tony Bloom.
As much as I love Brighton, it pains me to see all this success as a Hereford fan, given it sent us on a 15 year downfall which eventually led to the club going under, while they're now enjoying European success. The turn of fortunes after that game was crazy
They also have Adam "Cruyff" Lallana
Very good history about this lovely club need more💯
More of these please. I feel like you do too much content on teams like Liverpool and Chelsea. Brentford is another incredible story quite similar to this.
What a video 👏🏻🙌
Thanks for this video...... Please share more like this.
Brighton is really underrated team... Amazing vdo as usual
Well done to Tony Bloom. What a great owner.
Best comment I've heard in a while is a utd fan saying "instead of signing players at Brighton, why don't we try to sign whoever they're looking at to replace him?"
Video Designer: How many seagulls do you want in this video?
Joe: ALL OF THEM
Not having Maupay helps De Zerbi. The strikers hes had, hes improved. De Zerbi's a good coach hopefully he does well next season. Brighton's scouting has been great.
I know this is silly but I’ve been a fan of Brighton’s since I picked them as my FIFA 13 career mode club because I liked their kits and I wanted the challenge of promoting a team out of championship to compete in the prem. Subsequently I figured I’d support them as a club beyond my little video game campaign.
A fantastic story and proof a football club can be run very successfully and sustainably without spending £1bn on players! Creating the right system throughout the club and building a production line of young talent equipped with the right qualities and mentality is essential. Employing the right manager and coaching staff all combines to create a strong spirit and mentality without having to break the bank! Players can be polished then once they reach the asset phase of their journey sold for huge profits and simply be replaced with the next talent! The current state of the transfer system is not sustainable and Brighton are showing the world how it can and should be done. Great story, let's hope it has longevity!
Fantastic video 👏 amazing telling story 😁
Useful information about the game 👌
amazing video well done
The rise of Brighton is great for the World of football 👍
Thanx for this 😊
Thanks for this
I actually love Brighton, I don’t support them I support Liverpool but I hope to go to a few of their games especially at the Amex would so cool and I wish them the best for the future and hope to see them in the UCL soon
Really impressed 💯
The whole seagulls motif that was just slammed down our throats during this video was brilliantly funny.
Very detailed information
Fantastic video, nice content
I like the seaguls with the cap on
Adjusting for inflation over a billion was spent on achieving this miracle. Its awesome that it was spent on improving the wider club and not just players but it's unfair to other League One clubs to credit this to purely to nous.
In League One we only spent big money in our last two seasons, with lots of the squad being local lads. That spending was also suplemented by large sales like Kazim-Richards, Virgo, Harding and Zamora. You have also got to remember in our promotion season we beat Southampton to the title who spent far far more than us
@@georgehurst4024 when I say League One I mean in terms of facilities and "status". Not meant as a slight and I suspect many Brighton fans would say the Withdean was closer to non-league.
What I'm saying is that you don't go from that to breaking in the top table of the famously closed shop EPPP, have a beautiful 33k stadium and a world class global scouting network without a ludicrous amount of external investment. It's how I'd like to see external investment spent and I bet it's much more satisfying to succeed this way then having a 5 year player spending spree to get to the Premier League and be watching from an athletics stadium.
Bloom's sports betting background has definitely helped apparently to a lesser degree than Brentford so the narrative that Brighton have simply out thought the likes of Bolton, Portsmouth and Sheffield Wednesday is a bit unfair.
All in all, FANS saved the club and took it to new heights❤.
The losing team against brighton gets more talks and coverage than brighton wins. Brighton seriously needs huge appreciation.
11 players, one heartbeat game name of football 🥰
We have definitely come along way since Withdean stands. Had many a birthday party on those rusty steps. 😂
Incredibly accurate and good video so just astonishing that you got the wrong Will. Kind of ruins it. Those Buckley goals were a stunning moment and watershed in our history and incredibly special for those of us there to witness it. I can see Craig Noones pass for the second one now like it was yesterday.
Todd Boheley: 'takes notes profusely'
Fantastic video
To listen the voice of the speaker is sooo convenient!
Hope we can have more history video like this again in the future
Keep coming your videos
the Falmer Stadium was the symbol of Brighton's new hope and rise.
i was there on hove lawns with my ma and pa when the open top bus drove through brighton (:
Admirable
Nicely said
Excellent performance
Nice video there! Now please can you make video about the golden age of Tottenham, where they won the Legendary Audi Cup? Much appreciated 🙏🏻👍
sweetness of football pain those brighton fans experienced know getting satisfaction of years in misery
Well done. What a great owner.
Very nice playing boy🍀🍀🍀
Good information