Albion have added a second title for the season after the Specials secured the National Multi-Disabled League crown to add to the first team's Second Division championship.

Seagulls Specials overcame Shepway 4-2 in Kent with a team with an average age of 16 to 17 to spark parallel champagne celebrations to the first team.

Teresa Sanders, Albion's disability football officer, said: "What the first team have achieved by winning the Third and Second Division titles in successive seasons is amazing and my players are very much aware of that. But the fact the disability kids have also won a title emphasises they can realise their own dreams too at their level.

"Bobby Zamora's achievements in scoring goals is fantastic but my team have the top goalscorer in their league. James Horton has 19 goals. There is even a chance they could finish with the top three as Ryan Healey has 15 and John Ishola 13.

"I'm so pleased for the boys. It is a measure of how far the set up has come in five years."

It is another parallel because 1997 was the year Albion were one match away from going out of the Football League.

Sanders is convinced there is a bond between the sides.

"Club captain Paul Rogers proved that during the lap of honour after Albion had lifted the title. He saw one of our junior members who had been acting as a ballboy, Zac Caper, in his wheelchair, broke off and went out of his way to put the trophy on his lap. Zac was made up. Paul also showed that the players are at Brighton for the right reasons. They care about the community as well as success on the field."

Ishola (2), Horton and Elroy Bander scored the Specials' goals against Shepway.

With Zamora being called up by England under-21s for the match against Portugal this week, the Specials have had seven players recognised by their country.

England face Wales in a a disability B international at Northampton FC tomorrow with John and his brother Michael, Horton, goalkeeper Gary Shears, Healey, Ben Leatham and recent signing Keiron Hunt included in the squad from Brighton.

Sanders said: "It's great for the kids to get recognition. Again, Bobby has his idea of what he can achieve on the international stage, so have they. It has been one of the best weeks of my career."

Seven Albion centre of excellence players have been selected to attend an English Schools' coaching course at Keele University in August. They include Alex Simpson, Jake Robinson, Adam Mountford, Ryan McMillan, Sam Rents, Steve May and Lee Carey.