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A glutton for punishment perhaps but I'd like to experience 96/97 once more purely for the surge of home wins with Gritt, the last game at the Goldstone and away to Hereford!
I really enjoyed 90/91 season. Ok it ended with defeat at Wembley but was a good ride. Two games against Liverpool, the then best team in England, the last gasp free kick from Wilkins against Ipswich to send us into the playoffs, two beatings of Millwall and a day out to Wembley.
Think we also had a semi final game against Palace in the Zenith Data Systems that went to extra time as well, remember the Goldstone being rammed for that one.
The season we went up with Gary Nelson in the team. Think it was 88
Agree with you - 76/77 was wonderful. We played such uninhibited attacking football. I'd give anything to see that 7-0 against Walsall again.
I'm not sure I've felt any better as an Albion fan than just 3 years ago, during - and particularly at the end of - the 2010/11 season.
1) We weren't just the best, we were by far the best in that league. We bloody walked it. No, we didn't really bother in the last 4 games but that doesn't matter in the slightest.
2) The Amex was about to arrive. We could watch it being built - hell, we could (and did) even watch the grass grow via a bloody webcam.
3) The imminent impact of the Amex meant even going to the Withdean didn't depress as much.
4) Some ruddy brilliant matches (though this could apply to most seasons). That 4-3 v Carlisle, that other 4-3 v Dagenham to secure promotion, 5-0 v Orient, 4-0 at Charlton, 3-0 at Peterborough, 3-1 v Pompey in the cup.
5) March 2011. Win Win Win Win Win Win Win Win - surely the best month ever for the Albion?
6) Watching the tika-taka, pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass football style.
Disclaimer, before anyone calls me a JCL for picking something so recent - I only started watching the Albion regularly in 2000, so no I can't really pick any year before then. But it still blows out of the water any of the 3 other promotion seasons since the turn of the century...