Match Day Thread Hull City v WBA

furious to know how Dennis managed to get this fixture changed to a Friday night.
Tough game hopefully a better team will come at us and we catch them on the counter
City 2-1

 

Where the brass band plays **** off west brom...

July 14 was officially registered as national Black Country Day because it is the anniversary of the invention of the world's first steam engine. The Newcomen Engine was created in the Black Country in 1712.

Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, from Kingswinford in the Black Country, were among the founding fathers of America. The couple were early immigrants to the American colonies, going there in 1627 (or according to other accounts in 1637-39) possibly on a second crossing of the Mayflower, with four of their six children. They at first settled in Salem but moved to New York after being persecuted for being Quakers.

Their descendants were said to include Winston Churchill and US president Richard Nixon. In addition, it's been said that other descendants include Solomon Southwick, who printed some of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence after it was adopted in 1776, and Alfred Southwick, who invented the electric chair as an alternative to hanging.

The team were formed as the West Bromwich Strollers in 1879 by workers from the George Salters works, as they had to walk a few miles up the road to Wednesbury to buy their first football. . They became West Bromwich Albion after one year, in 1880.

They're known as the throstles (a thrush) or baggies, but nobody really knows why.

Bromwich means broom village, and there is no north east or south Bromwich, but the town is split into two constituencies, West Bromwich East and West Bromwich West.

West Brom's ground, the Hawthorns, is the highest ground in England and it was the first British ground to use electronic turnstile counters.

Ron Saunders managed both Albion and Birmingham in 1985/86 and both teams were ultimately relegated. West Brom won only four games over the whole season ... and their reserve team went down as well.

Manager Jimmy Hagan once provoked defender Don Howe into leading a players' strike. Hagan was famous for upsetting his players: in his first managerial job at Peterborough, seven players had demanded to be put on the transfer list. At The Hawthorns, the players found Hagan's training routines boring. One winter morning, Howe and other players refused to train unless they were allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms. The team went on strike. Once peace had been restored, Howe left the club anyway.

Full-back George Shaw played in West Brom's two Cup finals in the 1930s and remained active as a player-coach with Floriana of Malta until he was almost 50. He is thought to be the last England international born in the 19th century ... and for some reason he was nicknamed 'Teapot'.

The Birmingham and District Cricket League is the oldest cricket league in the world.

 

Fookin 'ell, DMD on the ball and posting guff early, whatever next?



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I’m attending this one on Friday night, cpl in the Clarendon then fish, chips and mushy peas on the walk to the ground… looking forward to it..
City win would be nice lads…..

 

Get there early everyone... club making a great night of it.... lets hope the team do too...

https://www.wearehullcity.co.uk/news/2023/march/a-night-match-like-no-other-at-the-mkm-stadium/

 

I can't see the game, me and the Daughter are at my eldest Sister's 80th birthday party, bugger,

 

Someone who knows what should accompany fish and chips…

 

It isn’t the highest ground in England. It is the highest football league ground in England.

There are reasons for The Throstles nickname and for the Baggies one.

 

Sorry to be a killjoy but 5000 flashing wrist bands? Makes my blood boil. No doubt City, like most organisations, have some statement or policies that state how environmentally responsible they are. Yeah rite.

 

Given how many fans on here tell us about their carbon emissions producing flights several times a year
I wouldn’t let it concern you too much.

 

Curry sauce as an aperitif maybe?

 

Only if you are a Philistine.

 

All set for chants of "what the ****ing hell is that" from the travelling Baggies

 

Don't knock it till you've tried it.

 

That won't help with your emissions.

 

I missed those bits in his post, along with other bits.



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Enjoy the party, must say though your mam and dad didn't wait long to have you after your sister was born, eleven whole months.



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"eldest sister" infers he has one or more other older sisters. Difficult to get at least two kids in eleven months, unless multiple births were involved

 

Ever heard of twins?



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Ever heard of multiple births?