It's an unwritten law that your first Albion game is complete crap. It's a cunning plan to sort out the right sort of fans. Normal people would say sod that for a game of soldiers, I'm not going there again. The sort of person who is a potential seagull fan is someone who says well, this can...
Despite having been a regular for 20 years by then I wasn't at the Newcastle game as I was living and working in Qatar. But I was at the last home game that season a week earlier v Blackburn.
I wasn't at the Bournemouth game although I was at the Barnsley and Leicester games (and Bournemouth...