It's 2am at a Hove bar on a Monday morning, which might seem an odd time for a party. Yet here Brighton's first team squad, manager and the entire staff were crammed into a drinking establishment celebrating their season.
They had finished ninth last May and before the fun police pronounce disapprovingly on excessive revelry for top-ten finishes, this is a club who were within a game of going out of the league in 1997, who were evicted from their own ground in Brighton, forced to play at Gillingham in Kent for two seasons and when they finally got back to Brighton, played at an athletics stadium, where the shot-putt circle obstructed fans' views.