Brighton and Hove Albion have been pleasantly successful in England maintaining Premier League status and in Melbourne (this is my last reference to Australia for a while) Brighton Soccer Club is known as the biggest in Victoria State and has more girls and women playing than any other Aussie club. Check out the website.
http://www.brightonsc.org.au/files/7983/files/Documents/Year%20by%20Year%20History%20of%20BSC.pdf
Why a shout out for Brighton? Well, old pal Chris Bayman, whom I know from Charterhouse and who played a role in the school's football (soccer) reads this blog all those thousands of miles away, has two children who play the round ball game at Brighton. There are 92 teams and over 1100 players from juniors to Over 45 men and plenty of girls and women playing too.
In 1924 the club was formed and in 1926 junior teams were started. The senior men were promoted through the FFof Victoria divisions to Division One in 1931, two years later they won their first Dockerty Cup, the Victorian Premier Cup, first played for in 1909, and after the war three club players made it into the national side.
Times rapidly changed and despite their successful history, the club fell down the ladder to Division 4, although their Juniors continued to do well bolstering the club's reputation.
However, in 1992 the senior team collapsed, lost its status but four years later there was a renaissance starting with 8 teams and 146 players and in 2011 the club was the largest in the State with players from "mini-Roos" (U8) to girls, men, women and Over 35s.
Do not confuse this club with the Brighton Football Club of Tasmania or the Brighton Football (Aussie) Club of Melbourne formed in 1885 which eventually became known as Caulfield Football Club (including a colour change from maroon to blue and white stripes....bit like the Seagulls-soccer) which eventually folded in the late 1980s after various financial difficulties.Tomorrow-walking football!
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