May I, on behalf of all the teddies in Sussex, offer my heartiest congratulations on the Seagulls' nail-biting win over Swindon and to wish them success in the match against Bristol City on Sunday.
Now you may ask: "What does a bear know about football?" But then again, what does a Seagull know?
When I was adopted, I knew nothing about the game but listening to the old chap keeping on about when he was a kid back in the Twenties and Thirties and his older brothers taking him to the Goldstone ground when Bobby Farrell, Thomson, King, Mee, Marriot, etc. played for the Albion.
Dad played twice at the Goldstone in the late Forties and early Fifties for local teams in cup finals.
He made me dress up when the Albion played Manchester United in the FA Cup final, 1983, and will no doubt will do so on Sunday.
May I, on behalf of all bears in Sussex (especially Brighton Bears), wish them success at Cardiff and may they soon return to a new stadium at Falmer which they richly deserve.
-Ted Bear (alias Frank Edwards), Brighton
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