Is this the time for the Seagulls to land again?

FA Cup Fourth Round

“The Seagulls have landed.” Not, as you might think, the title of the next James Bond film – but the words of Brighton & Hove Albion’s helicopter pilot as he touched down near Wembley Stadium before the 1983 FA Cup final.

It was an unusual, some would say outrageous, way to arrive for the showpiece finale of the football season – and yet somehow in keeping with the quirky-ness of the English south coast city, the character of the team’s extrovert manager Jimmy Melia and the flamboyant atmosphere of a by-gone era.