Crystal Palace 2-1 Brighton: why are the eagles and seagulls rivals?
It is a rivalry that may not be in mind first for every football enthusiast.
But a rivalry is exactly what Palace and Brighton have.
It all started when the two teams played five times in 1976.
Crystal Palace was managed by Terry Venbles and Brighton was led by Alan Mullery. The two had been teammates at Tottenham Hotspur but were never close.
It was a draw for the first round of the England Cup, rather than a championship match, which caused the original controversy.
This was in the previous days the penalty shootings were an option to decide the links of the England Cup. If a game was designed, there was a replay. And the teams involved continued to reproduce until there was a winner.
After two draws, Crystal Palace beat Brighton 1-0 in the third game.
Subsequently, Brighton Boss Mullery says he had a hot hot coffee pot shed on him by Palace fans.
“So I pulled out a handful of change from the pocket, I threw it on the floor and shouted:” This is all that I Vali, Crystal Palace, “he told The Guardian – and since then the two clubs have never gone up.
Brighton was known as the dolphins, but he changed their nickname in the seagulls and the fans of the Palace claim that it was made to be similar to their nickname, the eagles.
Palace has been in the Premier League since 2013, thanks to the goals of the Wilfried Zaha club icon, Brighton beat the championship play-off semifinal on their journey to seal the promotion to Wembley.
That game also had its problems, however, as in entering their locker room before the game, the Palace team Found excrement on the floor.
Now both in the Premier League, the teams meet more regularly, with a series of recent meetings. Before the game full of accidents on Saturday, the five previous games in Selhurst Park ended 1-1.
This time, Palace won a game that will live for a long time in the memory, completing their first double in the championship on Brighton from the 1932-33 season, when both were in the third division.
