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Do you know what game that is? I’d hazard a guess that it’s West Brom v Birmingham at the Hawthorns in the 50s (Mitchells and Butlers on the roof, for example) and I think the guy tackling could be Jeff Hall who played for England but died in his 20s from polio. But I might be wrong …. my late...

The second option was actually “postpone but extend your free trial of Amazon Prime into an annual subscription, and not just for when it is showing games that used to be on Sky or BT Sport (which you are already paying for) …”

Is Eddie the only guy who talks through clenched teeth? I once had a broken jaw and had my top and bottom jaw wired together for what seemed forever but was probably 2-3 months - I could have done a cracking Eddie Howe impression then!

Probably was the Cricketers. Rough, but generally ok for the less high profile games. Others near the ground I would suggest avoiding as an away fan (and maybe even as a home fan!) are the Roost and the Royal George. Plenty of pubs near there have closed, eg the Sportsman, the Victoria, the...

Which pub was that? I have a lot of family links with that area so know it pretty well - most pubs round there are not very away fan friendly but it does depend on the opposition. I imagine Albion fans would not have the same issues round there that fans of some other clubs would!

That’s one of the few pubs in the area that will take away fans - you actually made a good choice!

Redknapp went loopy with the cheque book there and not just with Stockdale. Check N’doye is rumoured to be on £35k a week having been plucked from obscurity from Ligue 1, and sent back there on loan very soon afterwards. Whooo? Exactly. That’s why that club has no money and breached FFP, all a...

I was there too having had laser eye surgery first thing that morning. I think that shows commitment (to be fair, I do have family links to Birmingham City so that game was always inked in for me!).

I saw us in the 98/9 tour when we were dreadful - got a draw in Brisbane due to the weather and lost the rest. We had a tail starting at about number 7 and Tufnell, Such, Mullally as 3 walking wickets from 9 - 11. I went to the Adelaide test too, booked my flight home for day 5 with the...

I had Covid in the summer and am still not fully over it yet. I had 2 jabs, no underlying health issues yet after a week was unconscious on the lounge floor, in hospital for a week, blood/oxygen at 85, it was truly awful. I had 2 months off work, still not back 100% and still have loss of...

We were early arrivals in the East Stand Upper, I didn’t see a single check being carried out.

I cut down a tall Eucalyptus tree in our back garden and then, not an easy job, cut the trunk into logs some of which I put under the street tree temporarily as I was going to make a nice feature under there with these as edging and at the same time hoped this might deter cars parking on the...

When we arrived and joined the (short) queue to get in, we didn’t see anyone have their Covid pass checked. We drove but arrived just as a train was emptying and I would say no more than 25% got off that train wearing a mask, either that or they rapidly took them off the moment they left the...

Maybe 1-1 with an injury time equaliser?

I have posted before to say that I caught Covid in July and despite being double jabbed ended up quite seriously ill in hospital for a week, an awful week of my life. Four months later I still don’t have my sense of taste back, and am getting checks and further tests on ongoing chest, breathing...

To be fair, he’s been snowed in since October

I was told on this forum that you should put a smilie if you are making a joke, otherwise the more gullible will assume it to be true and you could be accused of spreading fake news. Yes, I was really told that - so expect a trickle of replies asking if this is really going to happen! :D

And Barber, he’s hardly blameless

To be honest it’s actually better than with the smug Aussie commentators

I’ll stay with it until lunch regardless but don’t expect things to go well ….