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Great Away Days - talkSAFT - 12-10-2017
Give us some funny anecdotes following the Albion. Here's one of mine:-
I was living in Leeds, and it was a beautiful sunny May day (mid '90s). I sat out in the back garden, but I was cheesed-off, because it was our last Away game of the season up at Sunderland, and we'd sold out our allocation, so I couldn't go. But I jumped up, and said to the Mrs "Sod it. I'm going. We've just avoided relegation, and I'm going to celebrate."
Celebrate, my arse! I'd got short sleeves and shorts on as I drove up the A1. But 1/2 way there it got cooler and cooler, and I actually turned the heating on in my car. By the time I arrived at Roker they were all in overcoats - it was freezing, and I wasn't dressed for it!
Never mind dashing into the pub to keep warm, I had to get a ticket somehow. I tried slipping the bloke a tenner at the turnstiles, but he wouldn't have it. So I stood on the road by the Away End for 1/2 hour, asking if any Baggies fans had got a spare by any chance - no luck! Then this Mackem walked past and heard me asking. He said "I've got a ticket, but it's for a bairn My lad had fell out of a tree that morning and was too poorly to come. It's yours for £4, but it's the Home End, of course." I said "Here's a fiver. Buy him some sweets on the way home".
I dashed to the Pub for a quick one, then round to the Home End (it was about 2.30), and noticed that the Juniors queue was about 20 yards long.
So I stood in this queue in my shorts, twice the size of the other kids. I felt like Rodney in Fools and Horses, when he won the Junior Painting Competition! (Luckily I had a Polo to suck on to keep me warm, and disguise the smell of beer on my breath, and I had to stoop down a couple of feet to try to kid the turnstile operator). Somehow he let me in (I must have had a good shave as well!) Anyway, he let me through without looking, and I stood on their Kop freezing cold and in silence.
When I got back to the car I turned the heating on full blast......... then I noticed I'd got a Parking Ticket!!!!! Good job we drew 2-2.
However, the 1,900 Baggies fans made me proud though that day, and it was nice to have heard the Mackems commenting on what a good turn-out from the travelling fans.
Share your stories.
RE: Great Away Days - Sir Megson - 12-10-2017
Great thread talkSAFT!
Sadly I'm more than likely a babby in comparison to most posters on here so my anecdotes are more recent-ish.
However I had an absolutely legendary away trip to Newcastle in December of 2011 when we won 3-2 with Scharner getting the late winner. Fantastic game all round.
As a group despite it being a midweek game (Wednesday night game I think?) we'd all booked the time off work and had every intention of going on the lash after the game. All local black country lads and making the most of the trip up north! Little did we know that my best mates Dad would be mistaken for David Ginola and we'd end up blagging our way into a few VIP areas in clubs with free bottles of bubbly thrown in!
The penny eventually dropped with the last club we tried it on and we all ended up getting kicked out laughing our asses off. Sadly to say old age hasn't been kind to him and he no longer resembles Ginola so we won't be trying it this season!
RE: Great Away Days - talkSAFT - 12-10-2017
RE: Great Away Days - Beefy 1965 - 12-10-2017
1988: Blues 1 - 4 Albion
There was a great atmosphere in the away end,
Robert Hopkins scored early on after we had just signed him from the Blues,
Can't remember who scored the 2nd & 3rd goals, but will always remember Gary Robson scoring the 4th in the last minute, ......
Why ?
Me and my mates were all doing knees up mother Brown and someone trod on the back of my shoe and at the end as always with that song everybody surged forward, with one shoe on I anxiously went back up to the top of the terrace to look for my shoe, but with no joy,
So had to catch the train back hopping most of the way
Got taunted for weeks after at the game with spasmodic chants of
"Lost his shoe at Birmingham, Lost his shoe at Birminghammmm" .... with all my mates pointing at me,
Thankfully have lost touch with most of them now
RE: Great Away Days - Zinman - 12-10-2017
Oldham 1976.
RE: Great Away Days - Beefy 1965 - 12-10-2017
If Carling did away days they would be called ...............
Igor Ballis away days
Yes I cried
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“It reaches Taylor... he’s upended...oh it’s a penalty... unbelievable. Myers’ challenge, Taylor goes down. The team who just miss penalties for fun now have one of the most vital in their history.
Igor Balis has been targeted as the next penalty taker. Bob Taylor one of several who have missed for West Bromwich Albion.
He’s been brought down. The team who have missed more penalties than they have scored this season have one of the more important that Gary Megson has ever witnessed. There will be some fans who will not look.
There’ll be some players who won’t look. To keep promotion in their own hands. We’re in stoppage time.
Look at the emotions. This is what the entire season has come down to in many ways. The drama will be extended as treatment is administered to Bob Taylor. In many ways a penalty has been as cruel an irony as any other award. Incredible...
West Bromwich Albon have missed so many spot-kicks this campaign. That their automatic promotion hopes should come down to a penalty in stoppage time the 45th match of their League season.
You couldn’t write it. He’s tucked it in! Look at the scenes! A win on the last day of the season and promotion to the Premiership is there’s. Unbridled joy. Has a penalty ever meant so much to West Bromwich Albion? There are kids crying, Even Beefy's crying.”
RE: Great Away Days - Sir Megson - 12-10-2017
(12-10-2017, 22:22)Zinman Wrote: Oldham 1976.
A game played out before I was even born, but my god what a volley from Tony Brown to take us back up to where we belong!
I'm always spellbound by watching footage of these games online or on VHS etc, but I cannot even begin to imagine how good it must have been to have enjoyed that game live.
Modern football is light-years behind the standard of that set in yesteryear in regards to atmosphere and I'm eternally envious to those who got to soak in those games in the flesh, although it is our history that made me a Baggie through and through, listening to and soaking up these stories of our former glories with pride in my local club. I wouldn't have it any other way!
COYB!
(12-10-2017, 22:29)Beefy 1965 Wrote: If Carling did away days they would be called ...............
Igor Ballis away days
Yes I cried
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“It reaches Taylor... he’s upended...oh it’s a penalty... unbelievable. Myers’ challenge, Taylor goes down. The team who just miss penalties for fun now have one of the most vital in their history.
Igor Balis has been targeted as the next penalty taker. Bob Taylor one of several who have missed for West Bromwich Albion.
He’s been brought down. The team who have missed more penalties than they have scored this season have one of the more important that Gary Megson has ever witnessed. There will be some fans who will not look.
There’ll be some players who won’t look. To keep promotion in their own hands. We’re in stoppage time.
Look at the emotions. This is what the entire season has come down to in many ways. The drama will be extended as treatment is administered to Bob Taylor. In many ways a penalty has been as cruel an irony as any other award. Incredible...
West Bromwich Albon have missed so many spot-kicks this campaign. That their automatic promotion hopes should come down to a penalty in stoppage time the 45th match of their League season.
You couldn’t write it. He’s tucked it in! Look at the scenes! A win on the last day of the season and promotion to the Premiership is there’s. Unbridled joy. Has a penalty ever meant so much to West Bromwich Albion? There are kids crying, Even Beefy's crying.”
IGORRR! IGORRR! IGORRR! IGORRR! Was sat in the home end crying my eyes out in joy when that pen went in.
For sheer emotions it's that game or Port Vale at Wembley that rank the highest for games I saw live - I'll always miss the old Wembley and think the new one couldn't be further away from the passion and atmosphere of the old one. Talking of Wembley, I think it's about time they starting moving England games around the grounds again rather than just at Wembley. My favourite England game live was of course vs Greece in 2001 with Beckhams Free kick at Old Trafford. These moments is what makes going the football worthwhile!
RE: Great Away Days - Beefy 1965 - 12-10-2017
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwivvv_V_OvWAhVMKsAKHYFeAvEQtwIIKzAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRWCFYp3F4Ck&usg=AOvVaw2R6y8nOuQgqIRWhqzwIwzg
RE: Great Away Days - talkSAFT - 13-10-2017
Thanks, Beef. Just cried into me coffee.
Colchester 68 (3rd Round): Full house, and we shared their End with the United fans. Plenty of pre-match 'aggro' (in fact Jimmy Gaunt, our Chairman, came over to plead for a bit of restraint!)
At final whistle (1-1) there was a surge and we found ourselves on the pitch. I did the decent thing and pinched the corner-flag (before it got into the wrong hands, of course!) Had to throw it into a nearby garden on the way back to the coach, though, as a couple of coppers were on their way.
RE: Great Away Days - talkSAFT - 13-10-2017
(12-10-2017, 22:22)Zinman Wrote: Oldham 1976.
That was a memorable day, Zin.
My old man took the mick out of me when I got back because he'd seen me on the local 6 o'clock News, on the pitch at the end, facing the cameras, waving my scarf.
The crawl back home was just fantastic with the M6 choc-a-bloc with Albion cars left, right, and centre, all ecstatic.