BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION
Aug 01, 2019
4 minutes
LAST SEASON
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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