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That is one of my crazy cherished memories. I'd been out and listened to it in the car. I got home which at the time was a cottage in a lane and with 10 minutes left, despite wife and kids in the house, I just sat in the car glued to the radio commentary and screamed with joy when the penalty was awarded then again when we scored and then again at the final whistle.
No one saw me and no one heard me....
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I was at work with no access to the radio or tv although I was aware the game was goalless, I worked in the emergency services, my boss said to me about us having a good result, I questioned a goalless draw being a good result and he told me we had won 1-0, a late penalty. I could hardly contain my excitement.
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Not quite as recent but Happy Birthday Big Cyrlle, I had forgotten a little just how skilled you actually were.
https://twitter.com/WBA/status/829600996049326080
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I was abroad - a very rare foreign holiday - for the Bradford match. Got back on the day of the game against Palace and listened on the way home from the airport. When the second goal went in I could hardly drive, I was crying so much. I still well up watching it.
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(09-02-2017, 16:35)Salopbaggie Wrote: Not quite as recent but Happy Birthday Big Cyrlle, I had forgotten a little just how skilled you actually were.
https://twitter.com/WBA/status/829600996049326080
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(09-02-2017, 17:29)Baggievicar Wrote: I was abroad - a very rare foreign holiday - for the Bradford match. Got back on the day of the game against Palace and listened on the way home from the airport. When the second goal went in I could hardly drive, I was crying so much. I still well up watching it.
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(09-02-2017, 17:29)Baggievicar Wrote: I was abroad - a very rare foreign holiday - for the Bradford match. Got back on the day of the game against Palace and listened on the way home from the airport. When the second goal went in I could hardly drive, I was crying so much. I still well up watching it.
Vic, I was similar for the great escape, could not stand the pressure or the excitement, expecting the worst hoping for the impossible ....... it had never been done before, bottom at christmas, bottom with ninety minutes of the season left. My wife was fed up with the whole thing .... so we decided to go out for the day. We took the three kids to Thorpe Park, for those in the midlands that may not know, a theme park in the Merlin chain out skirts of London. Wore my Albion shirt, bumped into saints fan, blues fans several London fans, all wished us well even the saints fan. No radio, no tv, total ignorance bliss. Heard saints were winning and partial rumours of other scores. Left to go home just after five I think, got in the car, turned on the radio to hear our relegation confirmation, I had forgotten they kicked off at four on the last weekend, the way I remember it, Saints were losing, Norwich were getting thumped, Albion were one up and Palace were one down. I was on cloud nine, Diaster .... Palace scored, 1-1, almost immediately penalty, Andy Johnson 2-1 palace. Devastated, switched off the radio, sulking as a drive around the M25, put the radio back on to get full times, commentator said palace have eight minutes to save themselves, the nerves, driving on the motorway in tense circumstances, our game finished, palace played on, then it was all over, very difficult to drive in the outside lane at 70ish whilst Boing boinging, and shouting we are staying up. What a day.
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