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BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION

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PREMIER LEAGUE 17th

FA CUP Semi-Finals

LEAGUE CUP Second Round

TOP SCORER Glenn Murray (15)

ARE THE SEAGULLS IN A POSITION TO PUT STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE?

JEM STONE @JEMSTONE

When boss Chris Hughton was called in for a 9am meeting at Albion’s Lancing training ground with owner Tony Bloom, it was less than 24 hours after the end of a season in which he’d kept Brighton up for a second successive year, taken them to an FA Cup semi-final and continued to perform with a set of values and class that are rare in the game.

He imagined that he’d be discussing recruitment for the 2019-20 campaign. Instead, Bloom sacked him on the spot. Hughton, not prone to hyperbole,

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