Birthday announcements at the ground

Farehamseagull said:

Its my better halves birthday tomorrow and she's coming to the game tomorrow so I thought I would ask the club to read out happy birthday before the game or at half time tomorrow.

Apparently they can't do that though as they have 'filled their allocation of announcement requests'.

I know this is a really minor thing and the club are very good in most areas but it does seem a bit petty for them not to allow the 5 seconds it will take to say happy birthday to ...... in the South stand etc. I would have really appreciated it as she's not a massive football fan and im grateful to her agreeing to come on her birthday.

Mini rant over.

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Gazwag said:

Surely the club has to stop somewhere otherwise they could be delivering messages all game

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Farehamseagull said:

Its my better halves birthday tomorrow and she's coming to the game tomorrow so I thought I would ask the club to read out happy birthday before the game or at half time tomorrow.

Apparently they can't do that though as they have 'filled their allocation of announcement requests'.

I know this is a really minor thing and the club are very good in most areas but it does seem a bit petty for them not to allow the 5 seconds it will take to say happy birthday to ...... in the South stand etc. I would have really appreciated it as she's not a massive football fan and im grateful to her agreeing to come on her birthday.

Mini rant over.

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The Complete Badger said:

This really winds me up actually. I don't give a shit who is celebrating a birthday. I'm there to watch a football match. Spend half time ENTERTAINING me, informing me of the other scores and offering Albion-related chat. Do not tell me that some attention seeking bore on the other side of the ground fancies their name being read out because they are marking an occasion that occurs for EVERYBODY every year and, once you're older than 18, means absolutely bugger all.

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Farehamseagull said:

Its my better halves birthday tomorrow and she's coming to the game tomorrow so I thought I would ask the club to read out happy birthday before the game or at half time tomorrow.

Apparently they can't do that though as they have 'filled their allocation of announcement requests'.

I know this is a really minor thing and the club are very good in most areas but it does seem a bit petty for them not to allow the 5 seconds it will take to say happy birthday to ...... in the South stand etc. I would have really appreciated it as she's not a massive football fan and im grateful to her agreeing to come on her birthday.

Mini rant over.

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Simster said:

As well as TCB's perfectly correct point regarding age, would you also accept that the club is NOT being petty in accomodating your birthday request? As someone else said, there could well be up to 80 birthdays, and clearly they don't have time to do more than a handful. I'm assuming you hadn't thought this through.

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s5.bha said:

Oh it's my birthday tomorrow as well............and all I want is beer , 3pts and a large kebab !

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The Large One said:

Fourteenth Eye used to get a birthday dedication from TMLS read out every November at Withdean.

It was always 'Happy 7th Birthday Ady, from Marcus, Andy etc...'

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The Complete Badger said:

This really winds me up actually. I don't give a shit who is celebrating a birthday. I'm there to watch a football match. Spend half time ENTERTAINING me, informing me of the other scores and offering Albion-related chat. Do not tell me that some attention seeking bore on the other side of the ground fancies their name being read out because they are marking an occasion that occurs for EVERYBODY every year and, once you're older than 18, means absolutely bugger all.

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happypig said:

it's likely to be about 60 other people's birthday too

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The Complete Badger said:

If you see my last post, you will find this is the last year where it is acceptable for her to have this message read out

I've no problem with "Happy birthday to Tom, he's 7 today and in the East Stand with his dad" or "Welcome to 5 year old Jack who is attending his first match today". But there is something tragic about "Many happy returns to Roger who is 47 today, and that's from your mum". You do get some of these gimps, who presumably think they're important enough to warrant the rest of us going through verbal diarrhoea for five minutes every Saturday.

Still, the one positive is that we don't have a "special presentation from Dick Knight to Liz Costa and the Supporters' Club" at every single f***ing home game any longer.

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