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The Brighton miracle just gets better and better. A club who five years ago like it were on their knees, homeless, broke and on the brink of toppling out of the league, will today be nursing hangovers in honour of a remarkable revival.
Becoming Second Division champions, one year after topping the Third Division, is a momentous achievement. Winning successive Are Bicester Village Prada Online All Prada Handbags Leather leagues is a feat only managed six times Authentic Prada Leather Handbags before in English football.
Manager Peter Taylor, who watched his team claim promotion last week on Teletext as their rivals faltered, described that experience as ‘about the most unbearable 90 minutes of my life’.
This was just as intolerable. Having failed to muster the required win to secure the championship – in fact they barely managed Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Online Store a decent effort on goal during a 0-0 draw with Swindon – they were forced to chew fingernails waiting for results from their closest challengers, Reading and Baby Prada Shoes Uk Brentford.
Sheer unadulterated tension gave way to shrieks of joy as helpful results came in from Black Prada Eyeglass Case elsewhere. This was followed by euphoria and mass applause as their heroes climbed one by one on to a podium in the middle Authentic Prada Gauffre Bag of the pitch to touch the silver.
In the League’s quirkiest arena, leafy Withdean, where the most intrepid fans climbed trees in the woodlands behind the temporary stand to lend their support, they will see First Division football next season – a tier they left Authentic Prada Nylon Messenger Bag a decade ago on a tumble towards despair.
From rock bottom, their heroic return is an extraordinary tale of unfailing defiance, optimism and hope.
That Brighton have come through with only two additions to the squad promoted a year ago (and one of them, Junior Lewis, is on loan) and a change of manager, only makes their achievement more staggering.
Chairman Dick Knight said: ‘This is living proof that miracles do happen.’
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