Publisher Description

From Pascal Gross's fantastic brace at Old Trafford and an unbelievable 5-2 victory over Leicester City, to a 6-0 demolition of Wolves, the 2022-23 campaign is quite possibly Brighton's best ever season.After a fantastic start to the Premier League campaign, Graham Potter left the Seagulls to join Chelsea leaving fans concerned.Enter Roberto De Zerbi.De Zerbi's first win came in a 4-1 thrashing of . . . that's right, Chelsea! Anyone who was at the AMEX that day will never forgot the incredible atmosphere produced by the Brighton faithful.Fast forward a few months and the Seagulls were walking out at Wembley for an FA Cup semi-final. A month later, Brighton had qualified for Europe for the first time in their 122-year history.Tony Noble, a lifelong Brighton fan and season ticket holder, has written The Seagulls Greatest Ever Season, a match-by match account of this amazing campaign.Written with passion, honesty and humour, Tony recalls Alexis Mac Allister's stellar performances during a year in which he became a World champion; Lewis Dunk's inspirational on-pitch leadership; Kauro Mitoma's wizardry down the left-hand side; the emergence of exciting young talent Evan Ferguson, and much more.The Seagulls Greatest Ever Season allows the reader to relive the games, the goals and the glory in what was - the greatest ever season.

Author Biography

Tony Noble has been a Brighton & Hove Albion supporter since he attended his first game at the Goldstone Ground in 1966. After a couple of seasons spent watching from right at the front of the North Stand at the Goldstone, his family moved away from Hove to North Sussex when he was aged 12 years old, and Tony has been forced to watch from afar ever since until 2019.Until the 2021-22 season that is. At the grand age of 66, Tony finally had his first-ever Brighton season ticket. Throughout the 2021 -2022 campaign, Tony shared his experiences of what it was like to attend Albion games regularly for the first time in more than half a century.Tony has spent a big part of his life writing up legal documents and now finds great pleasure in writing about his boyhood passion, The Albion!

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