Brighton looked the better team easily for the first half hour or so, running at us and making sure the play was always down at that end of the park. Gary Hart opened the scoring, deservedly so.

That little bugger from Chelsea Leon Knight was running around all over as usual and the Brighton fans took to him. Maybe they won't miss Bobby Zamora too much this season with Knight buzzing around, beating people like Matt Elliott to headers and scoring goals. Shame he rolls around the floor in agony so much. He put them 2 up.

Scimeca very calmly got a goal back for City, showing we now have someone who can take freekicks. 25 yards out and he just curled it round the wall. Lovely.

The highlight of the game then happened. Suddenly a squirrel ran onto the pitch! He spent some time running the length of the pitch to the cheers of both sets of fans whilst the players played on. As he shot off in the opposite corner to us, City won a corner there as the players noticed what was going on, and Jamie Scowcroft soon had the ball in the back of the net to equalise with a nice downward header. Well created Mr Squirrel. Not a bad debut.

Walker. Deane and Howey, who had got changed at half time, came and sat with the City fans to watch the second half.

City had pulled it back to 2-2 without really turning it on, but then showed that they have a lot of work to do. The defence really is poor and Jones, the one with the attempt at some sort of blonde mohican, won the game for Brighton going through our lot like a hot knife in butter.

City fans weren't too impressed and the look on Adams' face as he stalked off the pitch said it all.

City fans check out Brighton beach	Taggs looks well out of the loop
Thatcher and Hignett warm up	Lil Nalis had another good game