When he’s back home going to games at the Amex, Dick Knight has a bar in the stadium named after him, but on Boxing Day in West Chester yesterday he was just another fan rooting for Brighton and Hove Albion against Arsenal.
Though most at the bar didn’t realize it, the guy who helped save the team from financial oblivion in the mid-’90s was at Kildare’s Irish Pub watching the game with his grandsons and son-in-law. Knight served as chairman of the club from 1997 to 2009, starting his tenure the last game of the 1996-1997 season when a loss would have meant relegation out of the English Football League.