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Interesting debate. In my experience of working with primary age children and their parents, one factor which stood out was that parents of ethnic minority children had high expectations of our education system and their own children to achieve high standards. They had high career aspirations...

Albert Mandy v Southampton in 1954. A 1-2 defeat. I was 7 so can’t remember much about the goal but I know it was scored at the south end during a goalmouth scramble. I was most impressed by the size of the crowd (having checked it was 22,000 plus). Funnily enough I can remember no more goals...

I have always understood that the Uckfield-Lewes line was closed because a new bridge needed to be built for the line to cross the proposed relief road in Lewes. British Rail refused to build the bridge because they felt the cost was not economically viable. The road was built in the mid to late...

Me. Exactly twice the age I was in 1983.

1964/5 Wally Gould scored 21 league goals from the wing- surely an all time Albion record for a winger.

Lennon was certainly a creative genius but theBeatles owed as much to McCartney. Lennon had the stronger personality but as time went on it was McCartney's drive that ensured the band achieved what it did. Lennon was rather lazy. Agree with all the comments regarding Ringo.

Good point made about SA but generally speaking England do well at home where our seamers can create havoc against batsmen who lack experience of facing it. Overseas it's usually hard going for our seamers except on rare occasions when conditions suit as they did on the evening of day 3 when the...

Does any team win a series away from home these days?

The promotion from Div. 3 South in 1958 was similar to last season in that Albion had come so close in 1954 and 1956 before finally making it to Div 2. The success was met with huge enthusiasm and home crowds for the following season were huge. There was less of a gap between divisions 1 and 2...

Arsene Wenger did more than any other manager to modernize the game since the premier league came into being. Unfortunately his best work was done more than 10 years ago when his knowledge of European football and it's players was unrivaled. I admire him for sticking to his principles and to a...

The original version was sung spontaneously at the Burnley FA cup tie in 1961 when the Albion briefly led the league champions and were on the verge of a big giant killing act. Unfortunately the game went to a replay and the Albion lost. I didn't hear it sung again until Norman Wisdom revived it...

I think the night watchman who was stumped was Phil Tufnnell. I seem to remember him telling this story a couple of years ago. It's certainly in character! As for old time commentators can I add Max Robertson for tennis and the peerless Eamon Andrews for boxing- never been bettered.

Somewhere recently I saw a premier league table based on points gained compared with wage bills. United came bottom of that league and I think Bournemouth came top!

No one is saying that United's season has been a total failure. Winning the Europa has rescued their season, but it is a competition that was never designed for the likes of United but for the "second tier" in Europe such as the teams United have beaten on their way to the trophy. Spurs have...

Winning the premier league supersedes anything other than winning the Champions League. I'm not a Spurs fan in any way but sideshow trophies aside Spurs have had a better season than United. Week in week out they have entertained and been the only side to get anywhere near Chelsea. United on the...