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Just caught up with that game. My god wasn't Ward good. Anyway, this was my seat in 1972
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[Albion] ITV 4 Big match revisited
- Thread starter drew
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I remember as a kid going past the back of the East Stand along Goldstone Lane on a Saturday morning and seeing the gantry in place which meant that we were going to be on the TV - so exciting!!
Sadly I think a few of our strikers used that yellow circle as target practice!!
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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Great photo... Pretty sure I was near the barrier/in front of the support post , behind the 'toyota centre' bit of the sign.
papachris
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I was in the North as well. I used to stand a few rows behind the goal to the right as I was looking at the pitch
Agreed. The last 15/20 minutes of that game made the infamous West Germany v Austria match in 1982 look like an Old Firm match. Everyone remarked on it. (My first Albion promotion though, so I have happy memories of it)
Like yourself and others, much as I'd like to play the victim I don't believe the Saints v Spurs game was a stich-up, and certainly not a case of pre-meditated collusion. The fact that a draw suited both sides and ultimately they settled for it isn't the same thing as saying it was 'fixed'. People will believe what they want to believe though, and it's become part of our folklore.
- Apr 5, 2014
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I'm sure something would have been said independently about the Southampton match by now. But the Spurs fans theory, especially from witnesses at the game, seems plausible. They were animals and I wouldn't have wanted to be the Southampton player who scored the winning goal that day.
zamora the merrier
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- Mar 1, 2009
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loving that pic so many memories.
dejavuatbtn
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Always fun in the 60s because you could watch from behind the goal from either end and swap at half time. South terrace often flooded so wellies needed in winter.
Is it PotG?
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BHA v Man Citeh from 1984/85 coming up at 1040,
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Now that was POTG
Bish Bosh
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You were robbed!No. I was eleven
I didn't start on the Red Barrel for a further three years, FFS! Seventeen pence a pint.
el punal
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Well we got our revenge, sort of, a few years later when we played Saints at the Dell. It was December 1981. If Saints won they would have gone top of the league. They didn’t, we won 2-0. I must have had a gloaty face for days after that evening of karma.
thedonkeycentrehalf
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I was at that game. Walking back to the car my dad told me to stop grinning and look more miserable as there were some very unhappy Saints fans around us.Well we got our revenge, sort of, a few years later when we played Saints at the Dell. It was December 1981. If Saints won they would have gone top of the league. They didn’t, we won 2-0. I must have had a gloaty face for days after that evening of karma.
el punal
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Following on from that we, there were five of us, went to celebrate in the Frog and Frigate pub - it’s still going I think. Anyway I got a round in and the landlady said how much it cost which was, let’s say £4.40. I gave her a fiver and the 40p to be helpful and said “There you are you just give me a quid back.” She went absolutely ballistic. “What are you, an accountant, are you trying to tell me how to do my job?” she ranted.
Well, I couldn’t resist and I bit. “All upset are you?” I responded, “Just ‘cos your mob lost and you can’t deal with it.”
Cue knocking our pints back quick and exiting before the heavies arrived. Happy days!
kojak
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- Jan 17, 2022
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Kevin Keegan et alWell we got our revenge, sort of, a few years later when we played Saints at the Dell. It was December 1981. If Saints won they would have gone top of the league. They didn’t, we won 2-0. I must have had a gloaty face for days after that evening of karma.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Andy Ritchie free kick remember it well. What a strange place the Dell was.
kojak
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- Jan 17, 2022
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It was actually more shitter than the Goldstone