Santa Claus or Saint Calde? It’s hard to tell who is more popular among Albion fans.
They can both do it on a cold or wet winter’s night in Sheffield or Shepherds Bush.
But Calde’s enduring year-round popularity was again in evidence this year and not just when he answered his team’s call for a left-back.
That was about*the time he won a prestigious national award for being an unsung hero, which should be a contradiction in terms but somehow worked and was well deserved given his community work.
The battling Basque produced three goals in two games in February to help the Seagulls to their best run of the first half of this year – successive home wins over awkward Birmingham, in-form Leeds and leaders Derby.
Which is really what No.9 is all about - the sequence at the Amex which lifted spirits and sparked hope of an upbeat end to the season.
Later in the year, out on the right, Bruno’s ever-growing beard became a symbol of Albion’s continuing unbeaten run.
The ex-Valencia man produced his longest and arguably most impressive run of games for the stripes while developing his longest and most impressive set of whiskers.
But will the beard still be there tomorrow now the unbeaten run is over?
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They can both do it on a cold or wet winter’s night in Sheffield or Shepherds Bush.
But Calde’s enduring year-round popularity was again in evidence this year and not just when he answered his team’s call for a left-back.
That was about*the time he won a prestigious national award for being an unsung hero, which should be a contradiction in terms but somehow worked and was well deserved given his community work.
The battling Basque produced three goals in two games in February to help the Seagulls to their best run of the first half of this year – successive home wins over awkward Birmingham, in-form Leeds and leaders Derby.
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Which is really what No.9 is all about - the sequence at the Amex which lifted spirits and sparked hope of an upbeat end to the season.
Later in the year, out on the right, Bruno’s ever-growing beard became a symbol of Albion’s continuing unbeaten run.
The ex-Valencia man produced his longest and arguably most impressive run of games for the stripes while developing his longest and most impressive set of whiskers.
But will the beard still be there tomorrow now the unbeaten run is over?
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