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WBA memories?

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Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

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WFG said:
Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

:gentry:
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Bryan Robson, Bomber Brown for two.

Recent times - Paddy!!! WTF??? 9 men!
 
Went to all three games, never forget when Bruce scored in the third game to put us one nil up, Abrahams comes to mind in that match.
 
WFG said:
Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

:gentry:
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Think it was Coleman that had a good goal ruled out right at the end of the game 😱
 
Cyrille Regis, Brendon Batson, John Wile, keeper was Gooden, Len Cantello maybe.

Still at school, thrown off for singing Cyrille Regis is a wa*ker
 
Remember Gordon Coleman making his debut against them in a night match in October 1973 when we won 3-1. We possibly went top that night or top three.
 
WFG said:
Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

:gentry:
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In those days they made a tv documentary about West Brom who I think had just become the first western footy team to visit China. There's a well known clip which shows John Trewick I think it was, a real thicko, being interviewed and they asked him what he thought of the Great Wall of China, which he was stood in front of. His reply was 'well, once you've seen one wall you've seen them all really, innit'.
Cracking stuff.
(edit - in fact, here it is, about 1 min 20 secs into the 3 mins clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCvLrMQHLJ8
 
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Viv Anderson?
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He would have been at Forest at that time - never played for WBA - players for them Ally Robertson, Regis, Bateson and Statham - went to all three - remember fans getting slung out for singing "fu#k off West Brom at both away games
 
ashtonwhite said:
He would have been at Forest at that time - never played for WBA - players for them Ally Robertson, Regis, Bateson and Statham - went to all three - remember fans getting slung out for singing "fu#k off West Brom at both away games
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I can remember going on the home game. Very excited to see so many big names, they were a great team.
Met Big Cyrille a few years ago at a mate’s 50th birthday house party. There was a knock on the front door and I opened it to find Cyrille standing there. Lovely bloke. The whole family were Albion fans and couldn’t believe who was in the house. Think he had a selfie with everyone there.
 
Has to be the Agyemang overhead kick , one of the beast goals I had seen at deepdale contending with the halfway line goal by Macken vs man city
 
PNEJack said:
Has to be the Agyemang overhead kick , one of the beast goals I had seen at deepdale contending with the halfway line goal by Macken vs man city
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Not only was Agyemang's goal one of the best I have seen at Deepdale in 50years, but that match v West Brom was one of the best adverts for football I have ever seen. Brilliant, and the fact that the goal came right at the end just highlighted the whole occasion. Both sets of players had given everything and West Brom deserved a draw. Their players shoulders visibly dropped when Agy scored and I almost, ....so very nearly almost, felt sorry for them. They have been my favourite Midlands team ever since.
 
WFG said:
Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

:gentry:
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Only discussing this yesterday at work. Yes went to all 3 games and also nicked off from Ribby Hall
 
The very first match I watched was against West Brom in the FA Cup final 1954. Ronnie Allen scoring a penalty awarded against Willie Cunning ham. All been downhill since.
 
My very first match too was against West Brom but ‘‘twas a bit later. I had always thought I had never seen PNE in the first division but I did some research and found the WBA game to be at the end of the season in which we left the top division. Yup, been waiting a long time for us to get back there.
 
WFG said:
Remember when we played them in the LC around 79/80, three times away-home-away. Went to all 3 after nicking off school.

Big Ron their manager, with a team full of super stars.

North End should have won the home fixture. Think Super Bruce got a goal disallowed. WBA won in extra time at theirs?

Can remember some of their players, can anyone else?

:gentry:
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I was at Deepdale for this 12 years old and it might have been Haslegrave who had a perfectly good goal disallowed. Then my memory is not the best these days.
 
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