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We've all got our enduring memories of performances over the years but what are your best and worst score lines ?
Mine are
Fav WBA 7-0 Coventry City......that awful chocolate strip with Mark Hately leading the line.
Worst WBA 1-5 Nottingham Forest. Statham scored after 90 sec and then Cloughie showed us why Forest were the best team in Europe.
Anyone who thinks Barcelona were good under Pep should watch Forest during those years when pitches were bogs.
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Best might well be the 1-5 at Molineux in 2012. Especially knowing that they've been stewing on that result for nearly five years now.
Worst, to be honest, has to be losing 4-2 against Woking. That was just pure humiliation.
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24-09-2016, 21:08
(This post was last modified: 24-09-2016, 21:28 by drewks.)
Best - gotta be the win v Valencia; with all their World Cup talent, our (greatest ever?) team - particularly the fabulous Laurie Cunningham - made them look very ordinary. (Drool, drool) .
I think that was around the time when we got 7 against Coventry (mentioned above)
Worst - too many to mention 
Great thread, by the way, Moses!  
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25-09-2016, 00:02
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(24-09-2016, 21:08)drewks Wrote: Best - gotta be the win v Valencia; with all their World Cup talent, our (greatest ever?) team - particularly the fabulous Laurie Cunningham - made them look very ordinary. (Drool, drool) .
I think that was around the time when we got 7 against Coventry (mentioned above)
Worst - too many to mention
Great thread, by the way, Moses!
Valencia....I remember Rainer Bonhoff (West German dead ball specialist of some repute) putting it high into The Brummie and then Bomber making it 2-0 on the night. Mario Kempes and his all superstar colleagues couldn't hold a candle to us. We were fantastic.
Was that the year we beat Sporting Braga and Galatassary? Back then
Galatassary was pronounced quite differently.
(24-09-2016, 21:08)drewks Wrote: Best - gotta be the win v Valencia; with all their World Cup talent, our (greatest ever?) team - particularly the fabulous Laurie Cunningham - made them look very ordinary. (Drool, drool) .
I think that was around the time when we got 7 against Coventry (mentioned above)
Worst - too many to mention
Great thread, by the way, Moses!
I was there mate. Still haunts me. A computer programmer put us to the sword and we deserved it. Big Sam was our care-taker manager that day.
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Allardyce might have been the assistant manager against Woking but it was still Talbot in the hotseat. It was his last game. Still remember the mounted police having to clear the roads around the ground from hundreds of fans chanting "Talbot out".
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26-09-2016, 18:22
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Seeing my beloved Baggies winning at the Old Wembley in the playoff Final tops the Demolition of the Dingles and the Valencia win for me.
Close runner up the 5-3 at Old Trafford. Making me smile as I type.
Worse..... Woking and both the 1978 and 1982 FA Cup semi finals at Highbury. I cried in 78' and was raging in 82'
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Worldclass, . Remember all the games you mention and probably agree with your comments. Been some great games, been some dour games as well but to get up off of night duty to go to Wembley watch Albion win promotion that is priceless, going back to work that night with no voice .... that's heaven.
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26-09-2016, 20:49
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Thank you World, I have only just got over the 78 clash at Highbury and the worst bit, the passing Wembley on the way home. I still loved the 5-3 at OT and of course that Oldham game in 76 (does anyone else remember after that game there was a really big guy sat in the centre circle with a bottle of Champagne crying his eyes out - scary, I was sweet sixteen back then, where has the time gone).
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Salop, I was ten, my mother had remarried and my stepfather committed a terrible act of child cruelty to me, around 1973 he introduced me to football (my father was a railway man and from the southwest so not a football fan) and The Albion. How cruel is that, I've been scarred ever since, but how I love the Baggies ...... I am Albion til I die. I too went to Highbury in 78, a young 11 years old not quite 12, full of hope, loved the train ride past Wembley took about a minute the journey back past on the train seemed like an hour, I couldn't bear to look. Pride of the top flight against a bunch of trac'or drivers ...... how that hurt. Never felt such footballing pain ....... until 1982 ...... both cups and 2008 the cheating hand of pompey. The hurt goes on ..... Bristol rovers ...... I need a large dose of pain killers .....
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OT 5-3 and the play-off final, worst aside from obvious was a 7-0 against Ipswich on Bonfire Night around 1977/8?
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