Albion fans are back on tenterhooks tonight, just a week after celebrating promotion.

It's not just the championship race that has put them on edge. The Seagulls were on course to claim the title even before Chesterfield scrapped their appeal.

Of more concern will be the future of Micky Adams.

It is hard to think of a job as insecure as football management. Lose a couple of games at the start of the season and some of the fans want your head.

Win promotion and it is other teams who are doing the headhunting.

Adams played it just about right when he appeared on television the other night. He was, he insisted, very happy at Brighton but of course, he added, he was ambitious to manage at the top level.

I can go along with that. If anyone asked, I too would say I was happy working in Brighton but, if a top newspaper came in with a prestigious job offer and a Wapping pay rise, I too would be more than tempted.

I have no doubt Adams is enjoying the attention, as indeed I would if a top national newspaper editor suddenly said: "I've just got to sign that bloke who does the rugby round-up for the Argus."

The Albion boss has proved beyond any doubt that he knows his way around division three, both with Fulham and the Seagulls, and has earned the chance to step up.

But the longer the speculation goes on, the more Albion fans will fear the worst.

Still with the Seagulls, there was a familiar grinning face in the back row of their celebratory team shot taken at Withdean on Monday.

Warren Aspinall had to quit the game at the start of the season and spent much of the winter cooped up at home taking antibiotics while his former colleagues rampaged through division three.

Good to see Albion did not forget him when the promotion party invitations were dished out.

Zimbabwean Murray Goodwin will be the man in the spotlight as Sussex kick-off their double promotion bid.

The county side find themselves in division two in both the Championship and National League as the new campaign gets underway.

As yet the gulf between the two divisions is nowhere near as great as in football or rugby, but Sussex cannot afford to hang around in the basement for too long.

Last year they collapsed when Michael Bevan departed, so news that the Aussie runmaker will not be around this season is a big blow.

Now Chris Adams is talking hopefully about being recalled to the England one-day side.

Cynics would say the nearest thing Sussex have to a big name overseas player will be when Kirtley and Ambrose are batting together. Goodwin must prove them wrong if Sussex are to have a chance of going up.