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Full League Record of Spurs -v- Brighton
 
Prem          Pl   W   D   L   For- Ag  Pts
Home           0   0   0   0    0 -  0   0
Away           0   0   0   0    0 -  0   0
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Total(Prem)    0   0   0   0    0 -  0   0
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Football Lge   
Home(Div 1)    4   2   1   1    6 -  4   6
Away(Div 1)    4   3   0   1    8 -  3   7
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Total(Div 1)   8   5   1   2   14 -  7  13
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Football Lge
Home(Div 2)    1   0   1   0    0 -  0   1
Away(Div 2)    1   0   0   1    1 -  3   0
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Total(Div 2)   2   0   1   1    1 -  3   1 
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Total(Prem)    0   0   0   0    0 -  0   0
Total(Div 1)   8   5   1   2   14 -  7  13
Total(Div 2)   2   0   1   1    1 -  3   1   
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Grand Total   10   5   2   3   15 - 10  14
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Last Six Premier League results:-

Spurs      -    WLDLDW

Spurs      1-0    C. Palace
Arsenal    2-0    Spurs
Spurs      1-1    West Brom
Leicester  2-1    Spurs
Watford    1-1    Spurs
Spurs      5-1    Stoke

Brighton   -    WDLDLL

Swansea    0-1    Brighton
Brighton   2-2    Stoke
Man Utd    1-0    Brighton
Brighton   0-0    C. Palace
Brighton   1-5    Liverpool
Hds'field  2-0    Brighton

Pos            P  W  D  L   F-A   GD  Pts
 6. Spurs     16  8  4  4  28-14  14   28
13. Brighton  16  4  5  7  14-21  -7   17

Do not feed "The Seagulls"!

Congratulations to Chris Hughton's Brighton team who won promotion to The Premier League for the first time to become the 48th team to play in the division in its 26th year. Huddersfield became the 49th team to play in the Premier League after their Championship play-off final win last season. Brighton secured their promotion with three games of the Championship season remaining, and they had high hopes of finishing as Champions until the last day of the season. They were winning 1-0 at Villa Park and heading for the title until Jack Grealish scored a late equaliser for Villa, thus giving Newcastle the title by just one point. Despite that blow, winning promotion was a great achievement for the "Seagulls", who with Newcastle, finished head and shoulders above their promotion challengers.

Until Saturday's 2-0 defeat at The John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield, Brighton were the top dogs of the three promoted teams, although Hudddersfield had made the most sensational start by beating Crystal Palace on the opening day of the season. Mounie scored two goals for "The Terriers" on that day, and he scored both goals against "The Seagulls".

Until this season Brighton hadn't played in the top flight since the 1982-83 season, and have only ever played Spurs in league matches 10 times. All of those matches came in the space of 6 years between 1977 and 1983.

Most famously, Brighton were our promotion rivals in our one season in Division Two in the last 67 years. The story of the end of that dramatic season is told here by my good friend Declan Mulcahy, but Spurs' first competitive game at the Goldstone Ground was a fractious affair with crowd trouble, a sending off (Don McAllister for Spurs), and a 3-1 home win. At the end of the season where the table had mostly been led by Spurs, they only won promotion thanks to a last day 0-0 at The Dell, beating Brighton only on goal difference. Brighton had won 5 of their last 6 games that season, whilst Spurs had stumbled over the line, winning 2, drawing 1, and losing 3 games. Brighton did win promotion the following year. Former Spur Alan Mullery was in the first of two spells as manager of the South Coast side.

Although they were relegated at the end of the 1982-83 season, Brighton made it to the FA Cup Final and took Man Utd to a reply, but ultimately lost 4-0. Des Lynam, with the BBC team at the time was (and remains) a well known Brighton fan.

Brighton fans still hold bad feelings towards Spurs over that promotion campaign in 1978, and will no doubt voice their antipathy tomorrow night at Wembley. Brighton's deepest negative feelings are reserved for Crystal Palace though. There was trouble when Palace recently visited the AMEX Stadium, with many Palace ticket holders being locked out, and now those two clubs have been drawn together for a repeat game at The AMEX in the FA Cup Third Round!

Chris Hughton would certainly have hoped to have picked up points at Huddersfield, who went one point above "The Seagulls" with their win. The South coast team are only four points clear of the relegation zone, and Hughton will recognise that he faces a season-long battle for Premier League survival. Brighton have shown resilience at times, such as when they lost only by a solitary goal at Old Trafford, but recently they crumbled in the face of the attacking might of Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool when they found Firmino (2) and Coutinho (1) in top form. The Brighton game was the only one of their last five in which Liverpool's top scorer (and top scorer in the Premier League at the moment) Mohamed Salah failed to score.

34 year old Glenn Murray (formerly of Palace) is Brighton's top scorer so far with 5 goals in 14 appearances. Summer signing Pascal Gross has scored three, but they have come in two games. Another veteran player - 37 year old Spaniard Bruno - has been with Brighton for several years and has missed only one Premier League game. I well remember him and his fellow defenders receiving praise in a televised game earlier in the season.

Spurs have no new injury issues. Victor Wanyama is getting ever closer to a return, whilst Toby Alderweireld is not expected to be fit now before February. There has to be some rotation, I would have thought with a view to Saturday's game against Man City to come. Full backs Aurier and Rose are favourites to return, I suppose, and perhaps this game will provide an opportunity for Juan Foyth to make a Premier League debut. I am hoping that Spurs find some of the form they displayed against Stoke, but have settled for a 2-0 prediction. After all we do not want to feed "The Seagulls"!

Match referee Bobby Madley is in charge of us for the second time this season. The other occasion was also at Wembley, and also against a South coast side - Bournemouth - when we won 1-0.

Did you know? - Brighton have had two managers named Peter Taylor. One was the famous managing partner of Brian Clough, who was in charge between 1974 and 76, after a parting of the ways between the two characters. The other was former Spur Peter Taylor, who was with them in 2001-02. It has to be said that the Spurs' Peter Tayor has had a rather chequered managerial career, and perhaps some of his better days were when he was in charge of the England Under-21s in the mid-nineties.

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