BRIAN ON BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION

November, 1973

Out of work, Brian swiftly moved to Third Division Brighton with Peter Taylor. ‘We were starting again,’ he said. It proved an impossible task to revive them. Having begun his career there with the provocative ‘Of course, I’m bigger than Brighton!’, he soon found that he missed the starry glamour of the First Division and disliked travelling to and from the South Coast. Still living in Derby and regularly commuting, he said: ‘I’d get through London and then see a sign that read: Brighton 50 miles. My heart always sank.’