There was a brief respite from relegation worries on Saturday afternoon when I had the privilege to interview former Albion manager Chris Cattlin on SCR.

It's more 25 years since the tough-tackling Yorkshire-born defender first arrived at The Goldstone after being transferred from Coventry City and time has not diminished his passion for Albion, despite the way he was removed as manager in 1986.

He was stabbed him in the back by the directors but refused to feel sorry for himself and since then has carved out an impressive career in business. In fact, if certain former directors had run Albion like Cattlin runs his businesses, Dick Knight's consortium wouldn't have inherited such a shambles.

Knight could do a lot worse than approach Cattlin and ask him to join the board.

When he was manager, Cattlin always maintained Albion had the potential to be one of the top ten clubs in the country. Years of mismanagement by previous boards and the birth of the Premiership probably means this is beyond the club in the short term but imagine what Albion could achieve with Knight and Cattlin working side by side.

One possible stumbling block is the continued involvement of one of the main instigators of Cattlin's departure. It is easy for me to say time is a great healer and talk about building bridges but surely the continued success of Brighton and Hove Albion is the most important thing.

Regardless of whether the Albion survive relegation, Knight looks set for a busy summer.

His first priority must be to secure the services of manager Steve Coppell for a minimum of two more years. Then, if the unthinkable happens and Albion find themselves back in Divisison Two, he must fend off any player exodus.

I am indebted to regular Hart Of The Matter reader Roy Burrows, from Goring, who kindly dropped in some old Albion programmes for me to have a look at.

I knew that over the years some great players had graced the hallowed Goldstone turf but never realised that in the early Sixties, Albion took on Brazilian champions Fluminense in an end-of-season challenge match.

It must have been a great occasion. The Albion side boasted legends like Glenn Wilson, Jack Bertolini, Johnny McNichol and Adrian Thorne. Their opponents, from Rio, had nine Brazilian internationals in their squad.

Ironically, having read the programme from cover to cover, the thing that jumped out at me was the section previewing forthcoming matches at The Goldstone.

At the top of the page, in big letters, it stated: "Room for 16,000 undercover."

I can here the entire South Stand at Withdean all shouting in unison: "I WISH!"

Margate-based middleweight boxer Takaloo, the current WBU champion, is facing a grave injustice.

He came to this country from Iran more than 20 years ago and is about to marry his long-time English girlfriend. But he has been told by the Home Office that, because his papers have gone astray, he cannot be given a British passport and faces deportation later in the year.

It's often a lethal cocktail when politics and sport mix but this is a case where Sports Minister Richard Caborn should get involved and bring about a rare victory for commonsense.