Pros & Cons: Former Liverpool Skipper In Talks To Become New Brighton Boss

According to reports, former Liverpool defender and Bayer Leverkusen boss Sami Hyypia is in talks to become the manager of Brighton and Hove Albion. Here are a few pros and cons, followed by my verdict.

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3 Positives Sunderland Fans Can Look Forward To With Gus Poyet At The Helm

The announcement that Gus Poyet would become Head Coach at Sunderland on a two year deal has left many Mackem fans bemused.

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Football League Talking Points This Weekend

Watford wake up hangover free

Often the side who is the unlucky party in the play-off final suffer somewhat of a slump at the start of the new season. So given Watford were not only the beaten at Wembley but were also narrowly piped to the second automatic promotion spot in dramatic fashion by Hull – you would not have forgiven them for feeling sorry for themselves.

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A detailed look at Gus Poyet's sacking and the problem with the media

When broadcasters lose their sense of perspective, ambushed guests may find it’s more than just their professional reputations that are at stake.

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Holloway just one game away from the Premiership (video)

Ian Holloway’s Crystal Palace advanced to the final of the Championship play-offs after his side beat a lacklustre Brighton team last night thanks to two goals from winger Wilfried Zaha. They will now face Gianfranco Zola’s Watford team in the final at Wembley in just under two weeks time.

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Wolves are down and out

Wolverhampton Wanderers have been relegated to League One after losing the last match of the season away to Brighton. A miserable 12 months has seen the midlands club relegated from the Premiership and then struggle throughout this campaign to end in 23rd place in the Championship. Fans and pundits thought that they would look to immediately bounce back from the drop at the end of the 2011/2012 season, but instead of enjoying life around the top end of the table they found themselves slipping further down the standings with alarming ease. Ultimately they had no answers to the situation and consecutive relegations will force many questions to be asked.

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1998 shows better times might be ahead for your club

If anyone has reached the end of the season wondering when the year after year of pain and suffering will ever end for their club, it might be worth giving the final league table of the 1997-98 Division three season a view for evidence that there might just be one day at the end of the tunnel.

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Championship play-off race too close to call

It is mathematically possible that any one of 7 teams could occupy the final 3 remaining Championship play-off places come the end of the regular season on May 4^th. Watford have secured their place in the play-offs, but the three teams below them in the table, Brighton, Crystal Palace and Bolton have not yet made their position in the play-offs safe. Leicester and Nottingham Forest are in 7^th and 8^th respectively and both still have realistic chances of finishing in the top 6.

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When clubs move house.

Sometimes a club must uproot themselves and start again elsewhere – whether that be because 25,000 seats just isn’t enough to sustain the club anymore, or because bits of the main stand are falling and crushing passing linesmen. Whatever the reason, such a change can often affect a club’s form in the short-term.

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Was Poyet wise to reject Reading?

Brighton boss Gus Poyet made the wise move last week to turn down an instant opportunity to be a Premier League manager at Reading FC.

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Poyet would be foolish to leave Brighton

Managers are starting off their careers younger and younger than many had in the past.

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Glenn Murray: Crystal Palace hitman

Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimoivc, Radamel Falcao, Cristiano Ronaldo and......Glenn Murray?!

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The Championship play-off race: Who will clinch their place?

On the eve of March, it’s now time to hear that clichéd phrase ‘Squeaky Bum Time’. The Football League tables are starting to take shape and gaps between promotion places and relegation slots are substantially forming.

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Can Brighton upset Newcastle again?

Saturday's early kick off sees Alan Pardew's Newcastle side travel to the place where they lost their FA Cup placement in the fourth round last year - Brighton - and I take a brief look into whether or not the Magpies can expect another beating from the Seagulls.

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Player Watch: Matej Vydra

When I took to my seat at the Amex in anticipation of Brighton and Hove Albion's game against Watford on the 29th December, there was one name that I was particularly wary of; Matej Vydra.

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