Reds vs Chelsea XI

What no John Terry? Nah ive got some paint to watch dry.

With these PL clubs now going for global domination we are back to our Town Meadow and early Broadfield days of having to put up with the kids teams (maybe aside from the "carrier bags" who I assume are repaying us for letting them use our ground, even though they have done bugger all else to help)from PL clubs again (I seem to remember once we beat a Chelsea XI 6-1?). Would be nice if we could beat them to show the Chelsea supporting majority of locals in the crowd that there local team are ok as well!
Maybe this will be a forerunner of our opening day league game in a few years time when we play Chelsea reserves in Lge 2? If it is I will either be dead or watching that paint dry as somebody above has said!

If you are refering to Brightons U21 team playing some matches at the Broadfield then we did in fact recieve a fee for this,as do the other teams whose ground they use.
The usual friendlies do get a bit tedious though i agree,maybe a short tour in northern europe next year for a change.

i think the club have gone for friendlies to max travel support . i expect Brighton and Portsmouth will both bring 1500 supporter which is probably as good as it gets for pee season away travel. Espically as the days of first choice squads from premier league and even championship teams are unrealistic.

Tomori is a brilliant player helped Brighton into the Prem back in April

Does anyone know if any players of these Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham etc youth squads that have visited us over the years ever actually gone on to get anywhere big? There must be some surely.

Kieran Gibbs played against us for an Arsenal XI in the summer of 2008. This was at the start of his senior career. In 2010 we played Arsenal XI and drew 2-2. They had Mark Randall in their team, and Rhys Murphy.