GORDON SMITH had every right to believe he would be blessed by good fortune before Brighton’s 1983 FA Cup final. After all, how many strikers have travelled to a Wembley final in the POPE’S ...

Gordon Smith reveals why his Brighton miss hurts more now, and how he struck up a friendship with one of the Beatles. Sign up to our Football newsletter. Sign up. Thank you for signing up!

Gordon Smith pays tribute to Brighton strike partner Michael Robinson - the man who set up THAT miss. By ...

An autograph-hunter's taunt, 5,000 miles away in Malaysia, made Gordon Smith realise he was never going to live down the moment where he should have written a glorious chapter in Brighton's history ...

Brighton's Gordon Smith (right) is foiled by Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey having blown the chance to win the Seagulls the FA Cup in the dying seconds of extra time ...

To be fair, if that goes in, it's the last kick of the match, and we would have lost to Brighton. "It would have been a disgrace but we came back four days later and won it 4-0 [in the replay]." ...

Former Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Gordon Smith tells BBC Sussex he hopes the club can return to the top tier of English football.