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No excuses, Dave has made his mark

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The Football League Paper Team
15 November 2026

No excuses, Dave has made his mark

Adam Virgo

BRIGHTON LEGEND AND TV PUNDIT
LISTENING to Dave Challinor lambast his Sheffield Wednesday players after last weekend’s FA Cup defeat to Oldham, I was reminded of when Gus Poyet first took over at Brighton in 2009.
I was captain at the time, and we had a pretty decent side. Nicky Forster, Glenn Murray, Tommy Elphick, Andy Whing. But we were doing terribly.
Unlike Dave, Gus didn’t skewer us publicly. But in my first meeting, he basically said ‘I don’t want to hear any more excuses’.
He said ‘I want to know everything that those p...

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