This is the 1st paragraph you can guess the rest......reads like the Economist the amount of times he mentions how much weve spent
It ended as you anticipated. The team that had spent £216million over the summer, whose squad was worth £569m and which is effectively the public relations arm of an energy-rich Arab state finally found a way past the club that almost dropped off the Football League radar 20 years ago, had spent 34 years painfully finding their way back to the top flight and whose squad was worth £37m.
Brighton have teetered on the brink of existence, threatened to go out of the league and out of business, sold their own ground, been homeless before building a new one.
So this was a momentous day and they deserved to enjoy it. And yet the carnival is over for Brighton. Well though they played — and they were excellent for long periods and even threatened City at times — they were undone by the familiar woes of newly-promoted sides.
They competed, they battled and they held their own. Yet ultimately, as they tired, they made but two mistakes. And the billionaires pounced.
