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On the subject of the elements, was Friday's fixture against Cardiff the first Albion home game to be called off because of fog? In over 50 years of Albion watching I think this was a first.

Didn't the rearranged fixture get called off as well - waterlogged pitch?

Yep, I was at that re-arranged fixture when we lost 2-1. We were coasting it after Peter Ward put us 1-0 up, we were already promoted but could have challenged to be champions. I think the team then decided to go holiday in the second half. Misty memories and all that!

I was probably there at the same time as you. Arrived at the Shay, with my daughter, to find the rugby posts were still in situ from the previous night's RL fixture. To rub salt in the wound I had hired a car to make the journey from Southampton ( I don't think my old banger would have made it...