[Albion] Mick Small

[Icy Gull]

I haven’t made many games this season but a mate who has been to all home game insists that every game at half time there is a birthday greeting read out for a Mick Small. He thinks it’s some “Albion in joke”

Random thread I know but has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

I haven’t made many games this season but a mate who has been to all home game insists that every game at half time there is a birthday greeting read out for a Mick Small. He thinks it’s some “Albion in joke”

Random thread I know but has anyone else noticed this?

I don't know about Mick Small but we could certainly do with Mike Small at the moment.

 

[Jack Straw]

Small, from Fats and Small's, dad. Yes. His dad's name is Mick.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I don't know about Mick Small but we could certainly do with Mike Small at the moment.

With his goal scoring partner Johnny Byrne alongside him.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I don't know about Mick Small but we could certainly do with Mike Small at the moment.

Exactly my thought. How many would he get in this side!

 

[Icy Gull]

Since posting this thread I have made a point of listening to the half time birthday announcements and guess what...Mick Small has been wished a happy birthday at every single home game since. It's quite bizarre!

 

[Giraffe]

Since posting this thread I have made a point of listening to the half time birthday announcements and guess what...Mick Small has been wished a happy birthday at every single home game since. It's quite bizarre!

Yep me too. Very very odd. What is that all about?

As an aside, our half time "entertainment" really is rubbish isn't it. I know it's because they would rather you were out the back stuffing your faces but not the whole crowd can get a drink and a pie in 15 mins so they really should do better. No offence to Richie who for Spurs fan does a pretty good job but I'd like to see something other than birthday messages and the odd chat with an ex Albion player.

 

[Monkey Man]

Hate half time. Not enough time to queue for food and drink, unless you want to miss the end of one half or the beginning of the next. You can't bring your own food and drink anymore so that little avenue of pleasure is gone. Can't really hear the interviews properly. So you end up just standing in the cold, shifting weight from one foot to another, staring at the tunnel, willing the players to come back out. I think we should ban it.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Since posting this thread I have made a point of listening to the half time birthday announcements and guess what...Mick Small has been wished a happy birthday at every single home game since. It's quite bizarre!

It's got to be some secret code, maybe to the stewards about some safety issue ... or maybe to team team? Both arms raised aloft by the corner taker means he's going to the back stick that sort of thing.

Actually, that's obvious bollocks

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Hate half time. Not enough time to queue for food and drink, unless you want to miss the end of one half or the beginning of the next. You can't bring your own food and drink anymore so that little avenue of pleasure is gone. Can't really hear the interviews properly. So you end up just standing in the cold, shifting weight from one foot to another, staring at the tunnel, willing the players to come back out. I think we should ban it.

I'd say reduce it back to 10 minutes, but I know how much the TV companies we pay 50 quid a month to wouldn't want to reduce the 371 adverts they show in the half time breaks

 

[Icy Gull]

Hate half time. Not enough time to queue for food and drink, unless you want to miss the end of one half or the beginning of the next. You can't bring your own food and drink anymore so that little avenue of pleasure is gone. Can't really hear the interviews properly. So you end up just standing in the cold, shifting weight from one foot to another, staring at the tunnel, willing the players to come back out. I think we should ban it.

Quite, change ends, bring out some orange segments and just get on with it

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Bring back Gully's Girls?

Mind you we have been enjoying the new E-bar beer dispensers in WSL so half time lagers are viable now.

 

[Icy Gull]

Bring back Gully's Girls?

Mind you we have been enjoying the new E-bar beer dispensers in WSL so half time lagers are viable now.

Banned by Barber because of all the pervy old men in the crowd?

They were a bit crap in comparison to US equivalents though weren’t they? (Says a pervy old man )

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

They were a bit crap in comparison to US equivalents though weren’t they? (Says a pervy old man )

I wonder what Billy is up to these days?

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Banned by Barber because of all the pervy old men in the crowd?

They were a bit crap in comparison to US equivalents though weren’t they? (Says a pervy old man )

Whilst I obviously wasn't serious I dare say the original "girls" should all be adults now so it would be less problematic these days.

Maybe the answer us to target a different demographic? How about Gully's Grannies instead?

 

[Icy Gull]

Whilst I obviously wasn't serious I dare say the original "girls" should all be adults now so it would be less problematic these days.

Maybe the answer us to target a different demographic? How about Gully's Grannies instead?

I hope you realise that I wasn’t being serious either!

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Whilst I obviously wasn't serious I dare say the original "girls" should all be adults now so it would be less problematic these days.

Maybe the answer us to target a different demographic? How about Gully's Grannies instead?

Gully's GILFs?

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

I hope you realise that I wasn’t being serious either!

Oh yes, sorry I changed my mind mid-sentence. I was going to make a sensible observation about how uncomfortable I was with young girls dancing in front of old men and how I figured that was my problem, easily solved by not watching. But then I wanted to go back to my default flippant state and suggest the grannies.

 

[Icy Gull]

Oh yes, sorry I changed my mind mid-sentence. I was going to make a sensible observation about how uncomfortable I was with young girls dancing in front of old men and how I figured that was my problem, easily solved by not watching. But then I wanted to go back to my default flippant state and suggest the grannies.

In the days of Gullys Girls we got free coffee or tea at half time in 1901 so I didn’t stick around to watch the HT entertainment. These days I stay out because I can’t be arsed to get in a bun fight for a drink

I get my HT kicks listening out for Mick Small’s birthday greeting

 

[Brovion]

It's got to be some secret code, maybe to the stewards about some safety issue ... or maybe to team team? Both arms raised aloft by the corner taker means he's going to the back stick that sort of thing.

Actually, that's obvious bollocks

Possibly, but years ago Spurs apparently had something similar. If a fire broke out it was to be referred to as 'Mr England', so if the PA announced that "Mr England is in the East Stand" it meant that a fire had been discovered in the East Stand and to act accordingly. (This was on an ITV programme iirc).