Brighton and Hove Albion Look to Continue Home Form

Super Brighton! From the South!

Wow. Its been a few weeks since I've written anything. A combination of reasons, mostly because its entering Exam Prep time.

However, my undying love for Brighton has bore fruits of labour, even in the cold and wet conditions. Not only did we win at home against Exeter, we won by two goals to nil !

Swindon came and, I am not afraid to admit, I dreamt of two home wins on the fly. Yet there would be no party for me because we would get shot down by a single goal. I again admit, I thought that our form may have deflated after the game. Upon stewing however, my thoughts changed.

And so did the Albion, who won 3-0 vs Brentford. The cold on that Tuesday evening didn't penetrate, because that was a result worth celebrating. And I did in fact, all the way back to Preston Park station, singing and shouting.

Swindon soon disappeared into the distance as nothing more than a blip in form, as we entertained Tranmere Rovers, with the return of "Mr. Moonwalk" himself, Bas Savage. What do we go and do then?

No prizes for guessing:

An unprecedented this season, third home win in a row. Murray is scoring at home again too. This is starting to get too much now!

So that's where we're at.

Tonight, we host our south coast rivals, Southampton. In the earlier away leg, which was Gus Poyet's first game in charge, we won 3-1, on two goals by Murray and one by Crofts.

Dare we, as Albion fans playing at home and holding what must be the second or third worst home record in the League until a few weeks ago, dream of four home wins in five home games?

I'd love to have some sort of personal story to tell of Brighton vs Southampton, but aside from being at the respective game earlier this season (November 21st to be precise), i've got nothing.

What is interesting is how even with our tiny, awful athletics track surrounding stadium, we are looking at a sell out game, or near enough. 7500+ is my prediction.

Doubts have been raised on our forum NSC over our ability to fill Falmer to at least half full capacity. But the fans are there, hiding amongst the suburbs of BN and beyond.

One pair of fans I know, a mother and daughter, travel all the way down from Tunbridge Wells. Against Wycombe and Aston Villa, I took the supporters coach and waited at Conway Street where I saw them both, dressed in Albion shirts looking buzzed for the match.

If even at Withdean, we can attract "hard cores" who are willing to catch a coach that leaves at 7:30 from Hove, after comming down from Tunbridge, surely we can attract five or six thousand fans locally, plus those from further afield.

Roll on Falmer, and roll on Southampton!