And that might have special relish for some Seagulls fans of a more veteran age.
The footballing eyes of a nation, and possibly the world, will be on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as Roberto De Zerbi’s side bid to climb out of the bottom three.
Failure to win would leave them below the cut-off line with rivals Nottingham Forest and West Ham yet to play this weekend.
The current form, relegation fears and European ambitions of both teams make for quite a plot for Sky Sports’ viewers and those who are at the game in person.
So does the fact it is De Zerb’s first game at home.
But there is another historic edge to this scenario for older Seagulls followers.
Tottenham were last relegated in 1976-77. Their last game in the second tier was a 0-0 draw at Southampton on April 29, 1978.
And that is a game which had massive repercussions for Albion and their adoring fans at the Goldstone Ground in the Alan Mullery era.
Southampton were all but up already in second place and Spurs needed a point to join them. Albion were fourth and still in the race.
This was back in the days when three teams were promoted automatically and there were no play-offs.
Bolton were top and widely expected to secure the title by winning at home to Fulham.
As now, Saints had put together a great run at just the right time, losing one of their final 14 games (when draws were more valuable given only two points were awarded for a win) but Spurs were wobbling and, as now, had just lost to Sunderland.
A Southampton win at The Dell would have allowed Albion into the top flight for the first time in their history if they won.
The Seagulls did their bit with a 2-1 victory over Blackpool but their worst fears from along the coast were realised as Saints and Spurs played out a dull 0-0 draw.
There will always be suspicions over whether the teams settled for that outcome.
Opposing managers Lawrie McMenemy and Keith Burkinshaw did not help matters by walking out for the game arm in arm.
Southampton fanzine The Ugly Inside later wrote: “Getting into the ground on the day early you could sense the tense atmosphere, not in the home sections where we were all but up barring a total collapse and a Brighton goal fest, but in the Archers Road where Spurs fans looked out menacingly through the fences which in places were already showing signs of vandalism.
“On reflection it seemed that Saints were opting to take a point and see Spurs go up and in doing so still have a stadium to play in the next season, and indeed still have fans alive to watch it, there could be a lot of truth in that.”
The last bit there, perhaps slightly over-dramatic, refers to the tension that used to accompany big games in those days.
There were genuine fears of major crowd trouble in the away end should Spurs lose and miss out on their immediate return to the top flight and Southampton spent £6,000 on fences across the front of the terrace.
As for the game itself, were either team – particularly Southampton – trying to win?
The Ugly Inside, with an eye-witness account from a fan who was there, wrote: “The game was tense but it was unexciting with few chances, just about the only one we had fell to Tony Funnell who had been deadly in the past month or so, from close range he hit the post, a bad miss.
“Some said he had been aiming wide and he had nearly scored.”
Hotspurhq.com published a slightly different take, saying: “There were many dramatic moments and Southampton could have scored on a number of occasions but Spurs held on for the point they needed.”
Suspicions will always linger, although it is worth remembering that, as things turned out, Southampton would have won the title had they scored as Bolton were held by Fulham.
Amid the crushing disappointment at the Goldstone, the club reacted as well as they did after a similar near miss in 2016.
Albion’s two promotions to the top flight have both been born out of their response to near misses in the previous seasons.
Mullery, a Spurs legend as a player, went up to the directors’ box, grabbed a microphone and told fans gathered on the pitch that they would go up the following year. Which they did.
Spurs had pipped them by nine in the goal difference column, which was the same score by which they Bristol Rovers in a famous league match that season shown on Match Of The Day.
Despite winning just one of their last seven games, they regained a place among the elite which they have kept ever since.
But it has never been under more threat than now and there are Albion fans with long memories who might enjoy seeing them nudged further into trouble.
Maybe it will be a 0-0 draw with few chances.