Why our icon Liam Brady is loved by Brighton fans

Liam Brady during his time as Brighton managerFormer Gunners legend Liam Brady was Brighton & Hove Albion manager for just 23 months. Despite a vastly limited budget, attendances rose by an average of 3,000 per game under him, but he resigned in late 1995 in protest about how the club was being run.

However, Seagulls fans remain eternally grateful to ‘Chippy’, because without his influence, the club might actually have ceased to exist.

With Brighton heading into the fourth tier of English football and facing life away from the Goldstone Ground, their home for 95 years, Brady, who’d resigned as manager six months earlier, was part of a consortium which guaranteed that Brighton would continue…