25-09-2020, 14:21
I've told the story many times before, but my old man (a Saddlers fan) took me to Fellows Park to watch Walsall play Albion in a friendly, in the hope of getting me to support Walsall. It backfired. And I've spent a large part of the decades since wondering why the Saddlers couldn't have organised a friendly against Real Madrid instead.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley