BRIGHTON, Oct. 18 -- Eight months after the Amex sang that he would be sacked in the morning, Fabian Hurzeler watched his side take Crystal Palace apart before the tenth minute on Sunday.

Brighton & Hove Albion won 5-0, with three goals inside ten minutes, but the one supporters will replay came from Diego Gomez. Spotting goalkeeper Walter Benitez off his line, the midfielder hit a first-time shot from just inside the Palace half and sent it over the stranded keeper into the net.

It was the same fixture, the same ground and the same head coach as February, when Palace won 1-0 and home supporters sang "you don't know what you're doing" at him. Sky Sports' Lewis Jones wrote that the club "could have pulled the trigger" when the noise arou...