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The best way to see the match is to go to The Valley and watch it live. :lolol:

Although Villa Park is a fantastic stadium, I still prefer the likes of White Hart Lane where the sound travels all around the ground. The left side, right side song was proof of that as, in the Doug Ellis Stand, although we could hear the 'right side' chant, it didn't sound particularly loud...

Going back to this quote, the Townsend Thoresen advertising boards were all around the ground. (Ferry Ferry Nice and others). This is because Keith Wickenden, the Chairman of Townsend Thoresen, MP, and BHA Director, put vast amounts of money into the club. It can be no coincidence that, after...

Gully is sitting at a table on the left.

Although getting to the FA Cup Final in '83 was probably the greatest achievment in the club's history, that fantastic day in Newcastle has to be my greatest memory of supporting the Albion. Left Rustington at 3am on Saturday morning and got back at 3.30am on Sunday. Then 4 hours sleep before...

We didn't even play that well in the game but an old Charlton supporting friend said that it was possibly the best display of finishing he had ever seen. I couldn't argue with that at the time and I can't say I've seen better since.

Given today's news re. Paul Lambert, I reckon he'll be off to Norwich before the transfer deadline.

I always understood that rusty reinforcement rods were bad for concrete as they can cause it to 'blow'. Does anyone in the construction industry know if opinion has now changed?

Brian Bromley's goal towards the end of the 1971/72 season does it for me. He took the ball in his own area and must have beaten every one of the opposition players, in the mud, before thumping it into the goal at the south end of the Goldstone from 20 yards out. Technically, though you can't...

What a team we had then............and that was a Div 2 team! Plus there was Robinson and Lawrenson playing for Liverpool. Oh to have a back four like Gatting, Foster, Young and Hutchings........as for the midfield Penney, Grealish, Smillie and Wilson and Ryan & Connor up front (and Jimmy Case...

Try telling that to Peter Brackley!

Although unconvincing, Jake is twice the player Cox is (although Coxy had a reasonable game yesterday). Jake can cross the ball better than Cox, he has a better shot than Cox and he covers the ground better than Cox. The only thing that Coxy is better than Jake at is standing there with his hand...

:) Have to agree, totally, with that. Havant is bad and Leigh Park is worse (if that is possible!)

I have one problem with Jim Gannon. His name sounds far too much like the former Pala**e defender of the 70s and 80s. I can't even type his name out for fear of giving my compute a virus!

And what about the time when their keeper came out and went flying over his own defender. Was that really a free kick?

I'm not saying that you're having a go a public sector pension schemes but this is one of the subjects that constantly comes up in times such as these and it gets my back up every time. I was a civil servant from 1978 until 1995 when I was TUPE'd across to the private sector. However TUPE does...

What about Tony Towner? Too long ago? Then, I would say Virgs and Hammond are, at least, on a par. Don't agree? How about Gareth Barry? Agreed, not too many reach their potential but the Youth system doesn't do too badly.

They use loads of money (something we haven't got!) to ensure the game goes on. I'm sure ITV will have helped Gillingham out as well. It would probably have cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds if the game hadn't gone ahead.

In '72 we were promoted and the last home game had an attendance of around 36,000 (if my memory serves me right). In '73 we were relegated after a very poor season. I always thought that towards the end of the Goldstone years there was lot of creative guesswork going on with regards to the...

I seem to remember that, around the time that Wardy played for England U23s, he had a bad respiritory problem that affected him quite badly for the best part of a year. He still played during this period although his goals dried up for a while. Also in his figures will be his games for us that...