25-08-2017, 15:08
(This post was last modified: 25-08-2017, 15:25 by Bierzo Baggie.)
Started going to reserve games with my granddad but the first “proper” match was against Arsenal at the end of the 76-77 season.
I was 7 years old, Albion lost 2-0 and the team that day was Osbourne-Paddy Mulligan-Statham- Wile-Mick Martin-Giles-Robson-Cunningham-Willie Johnston-Cunningham-David Cross..
Big Ron got the credit but it was Johnny Giles who built the foundations of that great team in the late 70s.
Don’t remember much about the game. The first one I have real memories of was a 3-1 win over Stoke. It was Giles’s last game at the Hawthorns and we all went on the pitch at the end.
Then I remember being taken to an open day at the ground where all the players were signing autographs. Met a colossus called Cyrille who nobody knew because he’d only just signed for the club but who later became quite famous
There was no turning back after that…
I was 7 years old, Albion lost 2-0 and the team that day was Osbourne-Paddy Mulligan-Statham- Wile-Mick Martin-Giles-Robson-Cunningham-Willie Johnston-Cunningham-David Cross..
Big Ron got the credit but it was Johnny Giles who built the foundations of that great team in the late 70s.
Don’t remember much about the game. The first one I have real memories of was a 3-1 win over Stoke. It was Giles’s last game at the Hawthorns and we all went on the pitch at the end.
Then I remember being taken to an open day at the ground where all the players were signing autographs. Met a colossus called Cyrille who nobody knew because he’d only just signed for the club but who later became quite famous
There was no turning back after that…