[4evaabaggie]

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.