ADAM HINSHELWOOD was bursting with pride after he and his family attended the Amex Stadium to watch his son, Jack, score in the Premier League for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Hinshelwood joined his family after Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Aldershot Town in East Sussex to visit a former club of his, Brighton, for their Premier League match with Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

His son, Jack, started in central midfield on home turf for the first time since September 2023, in a harrowing 6-1 defeat to Aston Villa.

It was a moment to be proud of for Adam and the Hinshelwood family, with the York City boss delighted that his son has adopted the same mentality that he is trying to imprint into his current players.

Hinshelwood spoke on the goal Jack scored, and laughed at his son’s heading ability, something that he admitted wasn’t his strong suit as a player: “Honest I don’t know where it comes from, me or my dad couldn’t head a ball too well or my granddad as well!

“It must be the wife’s side of the family where he gets that from.

“It’s great to see, and it was nice to be there to watch a Premier League game and see your son score.

“It was nice to be there and to see it.

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“It’s like we say about setting standards for players, the first thing he said when he came back was about how he could have done better for the second goal.

“He was a bit disappointed and wanted to analyse his game and get better and improve.

“I’m really pleased that he has adopted that kind of mindset and mentality, that’s the kind of mindset and mentality that I want our players to adopt.

“I’m really pleased with his attitude and his mindset and everything that he has got.

“As a parent, I think that we’re all proud of our kids so to see him adapting so well to Premier League football is brilliant as a parent to witness.”

Hinshelwood reflected on the moment that he found out that his son would be starting in his preferred position of midfield, and was pleased that he was able to adapt to the pressure of a slightly different role for Brighton.

“They would have trained Saturday so I saw him Saturday night after our game, he said that it looks like he might be playing central midfield for his first start there since the Aston Villa game, where he started and they lost 6-1.

“He would have had that bit of pressure as well.

“He’s sort of showed a lot more signs of what he can do and I know that is the position that he sees himself in for the longer term.

“He’s a player that is just happy to be out on the pitch and playing, doing the job for the team.”

Hinshelwood had the joy of watching his son score for Brighton and earn the man-of-the-match award in that 2-2 draw, but also hopes to take something different away from taking in Premier League football.

The York manager admitted that he was hoping to learn from watching football within the top tier of England, analysing a Brighton side that are said to play a similar sort of style to City, and spoke on his close relationship with the Seagulls, a club he once captained.

“There’s always a chance to learn, I don’t by any means of the stretch of the imagination think that I am the finished article.

“I want to learn, I want to improve and that’s what I want from my players as well.

“I try to pick his [Jack] brains, he’s a bit reluctant to give out information, more than I’d like, but I want to learn.

“I got there early, went and watched their warm-ups and watched them at half-time to see if they do anything different that we can adapt to our training and our warm-ups as well.

“It’s absolutely great to have, I know Crofty [Andrew Croft, Brighton first-team coach] quite well there as well so I can always pick up the phone to him and get advice, I can go and watch training as well which is nice as well.”