[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

It's not directly related to Albion or the Brummie Road (focuses mainly on Spurs and briefly shows a matchday crowd outside Molineux), but for all you nostalgia junkies, this is a fantastic video of a typical 1960s matchday.

[Zinman]

Taking a girlfriend to her first ever match and having to explain that it wasn't always like that (7-1 v Coventry), witnessing my Villa supporting Dad for the first and only time clapping an Albion goal (Cyrille v Middlesboro), the joy of Valencia and Villa (3-1 the Thompson and Regis show), the despair of Red Star. I could, and probably will, go on.

[silverbaggie]

You have reminded me Zinman about girlfriends and first matches.

My girlfriend later my first wife finally agreed to visit the shrine even tho she knew absolutely nothing about football.

Our next home match (I think 1964/65 season) was against Stoke City not a game I would normally have chosen but, I was afraid any delay and she would change her mind.

My now Ex. definitely wasn't going to stand and I had to fork out for tickets in what we now call the East stand.

Believe it or not we beat them 5-3 in a really entertaining match. Obviously long before the Stoke jinx set in.

She even agreed a few games later to travel with me to a mid week game at Filbert Street and guess who made his debut for us. None other than one Jeffrey Astle just signed from Notts County.

Unfortunately, we lost 2-4 and Astle was anonymous that night.

Anyway, if nothing else, she learned that the ball was round!!

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

She even agreed a few games later to travel with me to a mid week game at Filbert Street and guess who made his debut for us. None other than one Jeffrey Astle just signed from Notts County.

Unfortunately, we lost 2-4 and Astle was anonymous that night.

If you're interested, there is some footage available from that match (just a bit of random play and one Leicester goal). Apparently our changed shirts were red that night; a bit of info I'll file away for those who claim that green and yellow stripes are a more traditional away kit for us

http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title.../7500.html

[Salopbaggie]

Thought you might be interested. No doubt many can contribute much more, but this lot is all I could think of, taking us up to the early 70s, (after which I stopped being a Brummie Roader):-



They call him Willie, Willie, Faster than Lightning (tune of some kids' programme!?)
(1975)

Well remembered obviously lived a good clean life

The kids programme was "Flipper" (the dolphin) "They call him Willie, Willie, Faster than Lightning, no one you see is faster than he", fond memories.

and to add two more from the same period that I remember, there was the "Hey Ho Silver Lining" which went "Hey Ho West Brom Boot Boys.... etc" and a mash of "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks "We had joy, we had fun, we had Wolves on the run.  but the fun didn't last cuz the b******s ran too fast." Which was later nicked by the bluenoses  and changed to Villa, Though I seem to remember us using it for Villa as well.

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Pretty surprising really, though I don't know why it should be, that there are so many of us on here who must be 50+...... and the youngsters think we don't understand or use technology.

[Zinman]

You have reminded me Zinman about girlfriends and first matches.

My girlfriend later my first wife finally agreed to visit the shrine even tho she knew absolutely nothing about football.

Our next home match (I think 1964/65 season) was against Stoke City not a game I would normally have chosen but, I was afraid any delay and she would change her mind.

My now Ex. definitely wasn't going to stand and I had to fork out for tickets in what we now call the East stand.

Believe it or not we beat them 5-3 in a really entertaining match. Obviously long before the Stoke jinx set in.

She even agreed a few games later to travel with me to a mid week game at Filbert Street and guess who made his debut for us.  None other than one Jeffrey Astle just signed from Notts County.

Unfortunately, we lost 2-4 and Astle was anonymous that night.

Anyway, if nothing else, she learned that the ball was round!!

I've also taken an ex-wife who fell asleep (admittedly after a pre-match visit to a great pub) and my current wife who spent most of the game reading a book. She hasn't been back.

[silverbaggie]

Thanks Ska'd for that footage.

Funnily enough I had been thinking that Jock Wallace was in goal that night but it was in fact Ray Potter.

Then I remembered that Wallace had played at Filbert Street in 1960 when we lost 1-2 in the 5th Rd of the FA cup.
I was there and he had a shocker that night and Leicester were still in the old second division.

Our away strip at that time was all white.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

The commentator on the clip definitely says Albion are playing in red shirts that night. Maybe just an experiment. I suspect that in those pre-merchandise days away strips weren't really set in stone.

[silverbaggie]

Yes Ska'd in 1964 our away strip was all red just like 'the pool'.

What I meant was that in the earlier Cup match in 1960 we played in all white.

[talkSAFT]

You don't hear it these days, but a goal by the opposition was always a cue for that pleasant chant:

"You're gonna get your f***ing heads kicked in".