‘Get it while you can’ my old man used say. To what he was referring is of course irrelevant.

But I implore Albion fans everywhere to enjoy Albion’s current brilliant form and exalted position.

We’ve even been mentioned in the Daily Mail more than once, without the intervention of Paul Hayward.

Whenever Manish Bashin talks about us on the Football League show, his left leg jerks up and down excitedly. This is usually, sadly, subdued by the morose Steve Claridge.

The Albion haven’t been top of any league for such a prolonged period since 2002, when we fluctuated for top spot with Reading during the last third of the season.

But this, 8 points clear, is pretty likely to be unprecedented in modern Albion history.

I heard (though I wasn’t in there honest) that when we beat Yeovil we were the second most backed team in the UK, with Ladbrokes. One behind QPR and more popular than Chelsea with the British public, out of those who had a punt, or even expressed a preference.

Adam El Abd had a one quarter page picture in the Sun on Wednesday; I read it over some sleeping bloke's shoulder on the train until his wife woke him up with a phone scolding, about the recycling or some such thing.

An Albion player commanding such coverage in the tabloids! Not since Mark Lawrenson walked his sheep dog in Hove Park, have we seen such coverage. Dare we dream that soon some young lass will be pictured with BRIGHT-ON emblazoned across her chest, whilst sitting topless on Volks Railway.

Though as this is Brighton, it will probably be John Barrowman in hot pants.

My wife reckons Jordan mentioned the Albion on her ITV2 show the other day. I bet she’ll rock up at Falmer in August.

We cannot mathematically get knocked off top spot until December, although it is very much hoped we will stay there until June, when the Championship fixtures are published.

This is the Albion in all their pomp, swagger and affluence. Which, whether you like it or not, pretty much personifies the twin towns in this day and age.

And about time!

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