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Thanks @philsussex, glad you enjoyed it. Billy Mays - I fear the pants are still flying on some pylon in South Yorkshire. Are you still planning to get over for the first game at Falmer?

I was referring to the Fans Utd day at Gillingham, which was quite probably the most inept 90 minutes of football anyone has ever witnessed. And in those years we had a few games against which to judge it as that.

Larry from L here, aka Julio. How many roads were there on the way to that god foresaken place? As well as missing the M20 I also missed out the A259 and A27 that we had to trudge along. Looking back I can't believe we did that every week, and sort of perversely enjoyed it. Maybe there will be...

The irony is that people would have paid to go along for a giggle after it was exposed as being a disaster. It's a shame that a few kids saw an elf smoking but theme parks get away with a lot worse in the rip off stakes. If anything the biggest crime was the cruelty to the animals. Make them do...

Poor old Henry. Got to know him a while back as his lad played cricket with us at Shoreham. Victor obviously has form but Henry was a good bloke and sold a lovely apple.

Back in the day and before Roy Keane gave him a nervous breakdown, he reffed one of our ressie games at Woodside Road. As was usual at those games it was an opportunity for a few beers before, during and after, and a midweek catch up with Albion mates. Anyway, after the game I had a natter with...

Yet more quality from the efw stable

Test Match was the daddy of cricket games. Sixes into the corners and if you played on a table top with good timimng you could hit the ball out of the ground! Also, with a wiggle of the bowling shoot as the ball came down you could pretend you were bowling your spinner, John Emburey was...

The Albion songbook contains many classics, you don't always have to go looking for the new and overworked, also as a rule songs about particular players, unless they are genuine cultural icons (ie Wardy) rarely catch on. As one song starts "if you know your history..." then you would know there...

What HMHB doesn't reveal is that he has a team of 6 chimps chained to their lap tops with only watered down Skol and Silk Cut for sustenance knocking out these interviews. All this goes on while HMHB relaxes in his Spanish villas with a large cigar. Keep up the good work La!

As author of this article, it is categorically a cow. Agreed it's a rather surreal juxtaposition and not quite sure where the idea came from. It's one of those tunes you pull out the bag on special occassions, along with of course "my old man said..."

I have my own special momento of the times. A scar down my left shin caused by smashing it against the North West terrace wall at the Darlington home game. Bellotti appeared a few mins into the game, 50 or so leapt from the North stand and ran across the pitch to chase him out of town, it was my...

He naturally invites abuse, as do most eccentrics, wrongly in my view as the world is a duller place without them. That said, he spoke more sense in his 45 second interview than Mr £1.2m Storrie, or Mr "I knew nothing guv and just signed the players" Redknapp have ever done. In another world and...

I was having the chant debate with HMHB pre-match. There are two much better options on the Albion chant front. There's "The Albion clap clap clap, The Albion..." Then an old favourite, accompanied by clenched fist salute...ALbion ALbion ALbion. The accent is on the AL..rather than dirge version...

I'm in that photo and gave it to HMHB, but have no idea where it was or where we had been - just another messy late 80's saturday following the Albion to various northern mill towns. We'd be lucky to have 200 at some of the games in those times, so those who travelled up on the chuffer were...

"We've got God on our side, you haven't even got Moses!" In the days before club PR departments handed out ridiculous bunting in a bid to add colour and atmosphere (Villa's semi-final streamers on a string reached a new low), the dedicated fan would of course spend the Friday before a big game...