Brighton manager learns he's been fired on BBC while working for BBC Brighton manager Gus Poyet found out that his championship club was dropping him while working as a pundit on BBC. BBC Three production staff received a club statement saying that Gus Poyet, manager of Brighton, had been fired. Poyet, 45, was working as a pundit for BBC at the time, and did not find out about his job until BBC staff handed him the statement off-air. Poyet was suspended in May and will move forward with his firing depending on the outcome of his appeal, if he chooses to submit one. "I've still had no communication from the club," Poyet said at halftime of the match between Spain and Nigeria. He said after the game that he does intend to appeal the firing. "From what I read from the statement, I am unemployed," he said. My idea now is to appeal and get back to the job I've been doing. Brighton released the statement on its website Sunday, and two hours later, Poyet said he received an email from the club.