Is this Brighton and Hove Albion's year?

Now, before I get carried away, I just want to briefly share my position as a Brighton and Hove Albion fan and reinforce my excitement in what I believe could be the year that we seriously challenge for a spot in England’s elite; the Premier League.

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Goal of the week (and, possibly, of the season) (Video)

You know how it is. You have just finished watching Match of the Day and you're wondering if you have the energy to stay up and watch the Football League Show. You think to yourself 'I would like to watch but it goes on for ages' and 'I have just watch and hour and a half plus of highlights'. More often than not, I choose to plough on and fully satisfy my football addiciton.

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Lewis McGugan: Forest talent (Video)

Numerous relegation battes, struggling in their aim to return to the Premier League and multiple managerial switches; times have not been easy for Nottingham Forest over the past couple of seasons. There is reason for optimism, however, as they have begun the 2012-13 season at a blistering pace and this past Saturday they showed resolve in coming from two goals behind to draw with Birmingham City at home.

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Does the Championship deserve more respect?

With the Championship season kicking off on the same weekend as the Premier League and La Liga it was inevitably going to receive less coverage than the two biggest leagues in European football. However there is no doubt that the league deserves more respect as it is arguably one of the greatest leagues in the world, the slogan more commonly used to describe it's bigger brother.

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Palace add more Crystal to their youth production

It has emerged this morning that Crystal Palace have added yet another name to their much-envied youth system, by signing Dulwich Hamlet defender Michael Chambers for around £80,000.

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Jewell survives again to make bids for Swindon duo

Slowly attracting the name of “the cat” in football managerial circles, not because he’s quick and agile (far from it in fact), but because Ipswich manager Paul Jewell is seemingly the man of many lives as he survives in the hot-seat at Portman Road.

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Brighton search low for new striker

“It is all so much better at the top”, they say in order to sell the dream, but try telling that to Dorchester Town’s Ben Dickenson who has continued his meteoric rise, faster than that of house-gas prices, by being on the edge of a move to Brighton and Hove Albion.

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Haynes in Demand

Life is good when you are a footballer, even when your club don’t want you, there always seems to be a few others interested in giving you a home. That is the case with Danny Haynes who is subject of a bidding war between Millwall and Charlton Athletic after Barnsley manager Keith Hill said he no longer needed the young striker.

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(Another) 2011/2012 Championship Preview (with predictions and odds)

Clichés become clichés for a very good reason; the fact that they have a solid grounding in reality and truth. Usually anyway. Thus, the cliché that the Championship (no marketing here) is the most hotly contested and difficult league to predict has an element of truth to it. However, certain patterns can be deduced.

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