Ben Payne

Following the Seagulls and Sussex CCC. All views are mine.

[Spencer Vignes @SpencerVignes]

And so the curtain comes down on my twenty-second season as a feature writer for the Brighton & Hove Albion match day programme. It's a tangible memory of attending a football game, is a printed programme. Get them while you can, because one day they'll be consigned to history.

[Dogma @DogmaBrighton]

Dogma Magazine Issue 18 is GO.

Featuring a beautiful BHA125 cover illustration, 64 pages of THE BEST Albion writing - including pieces from @wearebrighton & @Jackalbion96 - sublime artwork & photography, plus STICKERS.

Read more here: https://t.co/dubzSnPHSN

#BHAFC

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

Get in there, super Worthing!!!!

[Worthing FC @WorthingFC]

WE'VE DONE IT! HISTORY MAKERS 🏆

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

Behind paywall, but finally a really good, considered piece in the wake of last night's game that focuses more on what we did well rather than what Chelsea didn't do. #bhafc #bhache https://t.co/oVnmarvKF3

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

Get in there Worthing!!

[Worthing FC @WorthingFC]

LATE DRAMA. COME ON YOU REBELSSSSSSS 🤯

[Worthing FC @WorthingFC]

OBFEHFEIUBFEIUFHREIUFHRI

90+5'| ⚫️2-1🔴 | #WorthingFC

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

@SeagullsProg @SpencerVignes Currently sat in a Derby pub drinking a pint of Brown Clough, quite tasty actually! #bhafc #dcfc

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

Go Hawks!!

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

Superbowl champions!!!! @Seahawks Get in there!! #SuperBowlLX

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

@AndyNaylorBHAFC You've embarrassed yourself with this post. Albion fans who pay good money to watch the team have every right to decide what they chant, not a journalist who is paid to be there.

[We Are Brighton @wearebrighton]

What a crock of uninspired shit #BHAFC

[David Friend @David_Friend01]

Testing and deeply worrying times for Sussex CCC.

Former players including @MattPrior13 among those calling for the entire board to resign, saying “responsibility is defined by outcomes.”

#Sussex #CountyCricket

[NFL UK & Ireland @NFLUKIRE]

Smile if you're going to the Super Bowl 😁🇬🇧

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Brighton have become the first team in League Cup history to win consecutive games by a margin of 6+ goals.

They beat both Oxford United and Barnsley 6-0 🔥

(Via: @OptaJoe)

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

We're proud to be supporting the #TogetherAgainstSuicide initiative alongside @Samaritans and the @PremierLeague. 💙🤍

Find safe spaces, trained listeners and vital support at @The_AmexStadium. 🫂

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

@BBCMOTD @BBCSport @alanshearer The stat makes no sense, #bhafc won 16 games last season so were leading in those games surely?! He means 11 times leads were lost, which is crap but the way he said it, implies no wins in any game led.

[Ben Payne @payneb01]

15 overs not bowled in #ENGvsIND @HomeOfCricket today, that is not good enough and needs to change @ICC. Fans pay about £150 a ticket at Lord's, a massive rip off for fans and very glad I didn't bother.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"DON'T STOP... BALEBA!" 🎶

@No1shaygiven was loving Carlos Baleba's stoppage-time winner for Brighton 😆

#BHAFC

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

Good Old Sussex by the Sea. An oasis of green within a stone’s throw of the beach.

Surrey are heading there tomorrow to see whether they can notch up their first win of 2025.

Sussex have momentum behind them after beating Somerset in Round 2, so it’ll be an interesting battle.

[The FSA @WeAreTheFSA]

FSA statement: Badenoch scores own goal