What a performance. Absolutely superb. The amount of fine wine sloshing through our squad could fell an elephant. We arguably should have won that by an even bigger margin, but I'll take 2-1. Lovely crisp passing, (mostly) solid defending, and wonderful attacking threat. Excellent stuff. #BHAFC

The #BHAFC prophet

You don't say. Everybody watching knew it was a penalty except for the people who are ostensibly paid to know it was a penalty. More excellent work from the lads at PGMOL. #BHAFC

Didn't mind that one bit. Love when luck goes our way for once, love Jack looking dangerous, love Yankuba giving them the old 1-0 as he went off. Both teams played well, and it's great to come away from a match with my only real complaint having to do with Dunky's trip to Diego's barber. #BHAFC

Oh, they've absolutely done me there, our club. I'm in a room of infinite onions. #BHAFC www.brightonandhovealbion.com/media-video/...

Apologies for the twitter screenshot, but christ this made me laugh. #BHAFC

A new contract at Brighton for Jack Hinshelwood, a homegrown success story. He has spent 12 years at the club and he is only 20. #BHAFC

Can't stand them pricks from yesterday. Awful club, awful fans, awful football. And the refs and comms fall for it! Proud of our performance, very impressed with Oli, enjoyed Yankuba's energy, and I desperately want Georgi's confidence to come back. And Fabian? He told it like it fucking is. #BHAFC

Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah Welbeck, you beauty. #BHAFC www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

What a game of football that was, eh? Astonishing first half, worrying second half, six-minute panic attack in stoppage time. Terrible but tolerable refereeing, dogged defensive work from all, loved free-roaming Jack, Milner my POTM, and oh how the soul did sing at the return of Solly March. #BHAFC

Welcome back, Solly! 😍💙

Inordinately pleased for Wolves there. Threw the game on at 93' to see if they'd manage, and did they ever. It's good to see Rob Edwards have reason to smile again, he seems great. And fair play to Wolves, they looked excellent in the bit that I saw, both solid and willing to attack. What an ending.

My book A Heart That Works just became profitable (meaning it's made more $ than the advance I was paid, & most books don't!). I'm telling you this because I gave 100% of that advance to kids' hospices & now, again, when ppl buy it, I can give more $ to kids' hospices: bookshop.org/p/books/a-he...

Oh my giddy aunt, they only went and fucking done it, and up at that Brentford as well (enjoy the bonus, boys!). That was some genuinely delightful football to watch, the compliments far outweigh any complaints. And a huge congratulations to James Milner, we're very lucky to have him. UTFA #BHAFC

Woof, admin. What an image to use. I dunno. We certainly didn't deserve that. Had them struggling for good portions of the match, but the refereeing was dire and you'd think grown men wouldn't fall over as much as Villa did. Milner and Diego quite good and Harry looked at it. Heads up, boys. #BHAFC

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the match. And not even the match itself but everything Dunk said after. The refrain of 'the group'. The group isn't working hard enough, isn't doing enough for themselves or for the coach. I hate to think something is wrong, but there is. Oh lads. UTA. #BHAFC

Oh lads. This should have been such a good day. I never expect much when Everton come to town, but christ alive. #BHAFC

Right, now I've calmed down a bit, some thoughts. Cursed fixture, expect nothing. Fine. But our passing was suddenly miles better, which is something. Yasin's goal? Unreal. That angle! Think Fabian fucked the subs, and that was the most devastating VAR call since Alexis at Leicester. Oh well. #BHAFC

Solly's got a lot of work to do, then. I told myself over and over to expect nothing and be grateful for it but fuck me, what happened there. The curse endures. #BHAFC

I don't expect much good will come from visiting that cursed football ground tomorrow, but the energy of seeing Solly March back in big boy training will carry me through no matter the result. #BHAFC

Well. Never a pen, shambolic officiating, glad to see Carlos and Yankuba back and at it, Oli's crosses are quite something, and surely that's the goal of the season from Babis. Good grief, young man. As regards the cheating diving timewasting pricks from down the road, I will say nothing. #BHAFC

Now I did say anyone, but really? That lot again? Always nice to see Alexis, but come on.

Heart rate so high it was on the moon, but there we are. Well fucking done boys. Needed that for Gruda, wanted that for Danny, classy Pascal slotting in like he never left, Ferdi excellent again, Babis a monster on the rise, and Jason Steele my lord. UTFA. Now anyone but Macclesfield please. #BHAFC

Right. Thank goodness for that. Back four broadly excellent, so pleased for Georgi and Yasin (and congratulations to him), Babis deserves another start, our passing seemed crisper overall, and my word don't the stripes suit our Pascal. A good performance against a side that have haunted us. #BHAFC

He's HOME. Welcome back, Pascal Gross! 😍

Over on that Twitter a Brighton fan has put together an 'all actions' video of Pascal's final game for Dortmund, and I have to say that I didn't mind it. The man's brain, his skill, they're still very much there. It will be a joy to welcome him home. #BHAFC

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

Okay then. Welcome home, Der Kaiser. #BHAFC

I feel insane right now. If that news floating around is true...wow. Happy New Year. #BHAFC

I mean... Didn't mind Boscagli and Coppola, having an actual right-back come on made such a difference (and what a right-back Joël Veltman is), Milner gave us back some authority, and I sure wish we had an actual striker because that shouldn't be Georgi's job. But you know, we've seen worse. #BHAFC

Well. We weren't meant to be the main character today. Seeing a lot of headloss and I'm not sure it's warranted. Yes, Fabian fucked the subs and as ever we should've had more shots on target, but Jack played well and it's so good to have Kaoru back (and we'll get to see Oli next week, sigh). #BHAFC

Though I think we all knew this news was coming, that doesn't make it any less devastating. Oh Stef. #BHAFC

Wee reminder to keep an eye on your skin and see a doctor if you notice anything different/suspicious. Had a pre-cancerous thing frozen off my nose today, and while there was only a 10% chance of it ever misbehaving, good to have it gone anyway (though I won't be doing any photo shoots for a bit).

Getting together to congratulate a club legend! 🐐

Grim though unsurprising stuff from the boys given the opposition, but happy for Georgi. Now the focus turns to the drama of Liverpool. #BHAFC

It's pretty much impossible to overstate the achievement of Lewis Dunk. 500 games for ONE CLUB, in these days of agent-led transfer shenanigans. He's been magnificent for #BHAFC this season, superb at the heart of the defence. A lot more to come from him I think

Genuinely cursed fixture. Not a brilliant 500th for the captain, but what can you do when Villa come to town. Really hope Stef is okay. Now let's go remind West Ham how it feels to get beaten by a beach. #BHAFC

Now that my head's clear, I can actually think about the match. Ferdi fantastic, thrilled for Max and Stef (!), JPVH massive, and yet again our captain is world-class. Love watching Yankuba run and Georgi just keeps trying (the goals will come again, they will). Now let's go smash Villa. UTFA #BHAFC

I just wanted to not lose by seven. That's all I wanted, but goodness me would you look at that. Well done boys. Well done. #BHAFC

Our boys don't half put us through the ringer sometimes. I'm sad for Oli, melancholy about Carlos, and thrilled for Jack. The poetry of him scoring and running to Crofty was almost too much. He's one of our own. And what a time for Bart to save a penalty. Oh, and Danny? Get him on the plane. #BHAFC

Well thank fuck that's over. Ferdi great, Dunky great, Bart great, Mats great, Diego great, Babis looked up for it, Joël is always up for this one, and that ref was a fucking shitshow. Oh well. Take the point and get the fuck out of there. (Hate this fixture so much, look how sweary I am.) #BHAFC

I know it was Leeds, it's their job to lose at the Amex (and they were awful, jesus christ), but that was much more like it. Diego G was clearly up for it even before the goals, couldn't be happier for him. And a word for the captain, who seems to be getting some stick lately. Not from me. #BHAFC

Didn't enjoy that on the whole, but I'll take Danny scoring against that lot any day of the week. Happy for Babis and Tom looked great. Fuck it, we move. #BHAFC

Listening back to this again for no reason.

Well.

Been saying/hoping all week that Danny would score today. A king among men. He loves a goal against these pricks. #BHAFC

I will say, after the card on Joël, Hooper getting in Yasin's way, and us not getting the penalty for Yankuba getting kicked in the head, I was expecting the worst. But instead, enter Maxim de Cuyper and Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah Welbeck. So happy to see Dat Guy swimming in goals again. #BHAFC

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Yeah, needed that one. In a lot of ways, for a lot of reasons. Well done boys. Well fucking done. #BHAFC