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My favourite Albion season. It was a slow burner with Albion the outsiders and Bournemouth, Villa and Notts County with (on paper) much stronger squads. Bournemouth had 4 or 5 players who went on to play in Division 1. By way of contrast Albion were a collection of experienced Division 3 players...

Football Daft by Michael Parkinson - a fans affectionate look back at football just after WW2. A much better writer than interviewer!

Kenny Dalgleish and others in the Liverpool team of 1979/80- Hansen, Ray Kennedy, Souness. They were class, only about 3 misplaced passes in the match. A good job Lawrenson was playing for us that day otherwise the score would have been more than 4-1.

In the Swindon area there is also the Cotswold water park. You can walk the beginning of the Thames path nr Cricklade. There is an excellent museum in Devizes. The Kennet and Avon canal crosses the county and can be accessed easily. As well as Avebury and Stonehenge the hill fort at Old Sarum...

Our brilliant season in 2010/11 was built in GG. Poyet pursued him for weeks during the summer when Swindon were foolish enough to offer him a miserly one year deal. We got him cheap and the whole possession based style of play was started with Ankergren rolling the ball out to GG or the full...

I think this is the most likely option. We don't want Boro to get on top the way Derby did in the 2nd half on Monday.

I agree Skalak was not at his best in open play during the first half but to say he cannot beat defenders is harsh. Twice in the second half he completely fooled Christie who fouled him both times to add to the serial offences he committed during the game with a lenient ref. I agree he needs to...

Burnley equaliser should not have stood as Keane blatantly shoved Goldson in the face just before he scored. Officials asleep again.

The future does not look bright at the moment. The batting has been weak for several years and the bowling attack puts too much responsibility on young, inexperienced players when frontline bowlers are sidelined by injury. There is no adequate spinner. The increase in counties getting revenue...

The original words were sung at Albion matches before Norman Wisdom's version. I know it's a long time ago but I have a clear memory of it being sung when Albion briefly led Burnley (then Div. 1 champions) in the cup tie in 1961. Unfortunately the lead was short-lived so the singing abruptly...

Yes -I had forgotten Murray came from Birmingham. I did love that team though in 1971/2. Against all odds that collection of old stalwarts Gall, Henderson, Powney, Murray, Irvine, Bromley had a final season to remember.

John Ruggiero from Stoke 1979 Dave Turner from Newcastle 1963 Bert Murray from Chelsea 1971/2 Joe Corrigan from Man City 1983 Alan Young from Leicester c 1983

I think Jeff Wood's record was 1 point from 10 matches. Pat Saward endured 12 straight league defeats plus an FA cup loss in 1972/3. Not sure about the Bloom era but Russell Slade's side had a poor start to the 2009/10 season that cost him his job.

Great days! Was that the last season in which the Albion scored over 100 league goals? Was it also the last season they were unbeaten at home? Can anyone confirm this?

March 1966. Millwall vs Albion at Cold Blow Lane. Mill wall on the cusp of breaking the all time league record for being unbeaten at home. Halfway through the second half with Millwall cruising at 2-0 the mood of the home fans around us (no segregation back then) was relaxed. Suddenly the...

I heard Harry this morning and thought he wasn't just referring to full internationals but was also including under 21's etc. There seems little doubt that players from smaller or newer nations show greater pride and passion than not just our players but also the Dutch and French in past world...

I can remember the 4-6 loss to Middlesbrough who had Brian Clough playing and scoring for them that day. Albion were 5-0 down in the second half before Sexton inspired a tremendous rally. If only we'd had 6 mins of added time in those days!

Wasn't at the Reading game but on Five Live Sports Xtra Steve Claridge was critical of the ref for not booking Harte earlier for a succession of fouls on Buckley. There was no mention of Buckley going down easily or that Harte was hard done by when he received a yellow. Anyone listening would...

Back in the 70's and 80's when Liverpool; were as dominant as Man U are today they never attracted the same degree of hostility as Utd do now. We were proud of their achievements in Europe and the football they played was superb. In 1979 at the Goldstone they gave a near flawless display of...