24-02-2024, 16:41
(24-02-2024, 14:32)talkSAFT Wrote: I was there as well at the open Witton End. Great atmosphere! Me and a couple of others met our Blues mates after the match (in The Greyhound, up Town): they were fuming that they deserved to win. Just now is the 1st time I've watched film of the match and it's clearly sour grapes because it was 50:50.
But I remember Blues fan Tony Butler saying (1st of all) that Blues were the better team. A couple of years later he said Blues were SO unlucky. A couple of years later he said Blues annihilated us. Couple of years on he said it was the most one-sided match he's EVER seen!
I stopped listening to him after that!
I was at school in Birmingham and so had the same bleating when I went in on the Monday. Absolute tosh! Blues played well and there was not a lot between the teams, except we could score goals when you have the King and Bomber. Watching those highlights again reminded me of just how good a player was Bobby Hope, wonderful
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