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Baggie Shorts WEST BROMWICH ALBION LONDON SUPPORTERS CLUB ISSUE 21 Baggie Shorts WEST BROMWICH ALBION LONDON SUPPORTERS CLUB ISSUE 21 Promotion Special01 contents 03 27 View from 1920 Match the Chair Report Steve Watts Demob Dave 15 Going Up 05 London Baggies 29 A letter from Q&A with the editors Niall Kelleher Glenn Hess Aidan Rose 18 Champions 07 Jon Want 31 1976 and all that Away Days Laurie Rampling London Baggies Email us at: BaggieShorts@b�nternet.com @LondonBaggies We always appreciate submissions, from match West Bromwich Albion Supporters reports and photos to op-eds and think pieces. Club London Branch @LondonBaggies Cover image of Matheus Pereira (front) by Laurie Rampling W londonbaggies.com 01 Laurie Rampling’s photo of his good friend and Albion record goalscorer, Tony “Bomber” Brown with a miniature of his statue that stands outside the Hawthorns. Laurie’s interview with Bomber about the 1976 promo�on clinching game at Boundary Park can be found on page 7. 02 view from the chair Phew…crept over the line…! A pa�ence is a virtue and we’ve warm welcome to the last Baggie certainly needed bucket loads; Shorts’ Chair’s message of what And no sooner have we finished has been a very long and 2019-20 than we will start on stressful season. 2020-21 with the Premier League kicking off on 12 I’m aware my colleagues will be September. engaging and entertaining you on the football side so my focus At this stage we have no idea if will be on the branch itself and we will be at the ground, if my references to the football will season �ckets will be in place or be focused mainly on that last if we will have reduced numbers game, and the way that the in a�endance drawn by lo�ery. branch approached it and All of this is a tremendous shame celebrated the outcome. for our supporters who may not get the normal opportuni�es to To say this season has been stop celebrate achieving promo�on / start would be something of an back to the Premier League. understatement, but I am presuming that is the case for We eventually booked the Old everyone in their daily lives and Red Lion pub at Angel for the in their jobs. They say that QPR game so that we could 03 celebrate/commiserate together. reached those figures whilst I’ve Everyone kept to social distancing been Chair. Now we just need to but at the end that proved crack 200! perhaps too much of a challenge. Our expected 45 people ended I will be trying to set up some up at 63 and at one point the form of mee�ng for the AGM decibel level reached 100 in spite before the new season starts. I of requests to be quiet (which is think this may be via Zoom/ notfarshortofajetflyingdirectly Teams or another form of video overhead at 1000 feet!). It was conferencing. Not ideal but brilliant to share the evening with needs must and, on the posi�ve old friends and new ones alike. side, it might make it possible for For those of you who have some members who can’t recently joined London Baggies - normally make the AGM to a very warm welcome to “the par�cipate in the evening. We family”andIhopetoseeyoualot are a very interna�onal branch more next season and beyond. with members all over the world Thanks to Max Davies for albeit predominantly in London organising it all. and the South East. I or Max will no doubt send something out At the moment we have 189 once we work out the details. members (or 169 if you count Good health and good �mes to family memberships as one all over the summer and please membership). That’s the biggest stay safe. Remember, together membership it’s ever been and WE ARE LONDON BAGGIES! I’m very proud that we’ve Steve Wa�s, Chair London Baggies TLIMS - The Lord Is My Shepherd 04 a letter from the editors Glenn Hess reviews our season and previews what is to come Well we’ve done it. Back in the my local a�er the match with huge Prem and boy it wasn’t that easy! smiles on our faces. We were Bren�ord kept winning a�er immense powerful yet skillful, lockdown while we splu�ered. winning 2-0 and all of us were Let’s all celebrate even though it pleased as punch. This was Millwall was close. That run by Bren�ord as territory but they all were full of they won and won and Leeds really praise for Albion – “The best we’ve came good, all of this did make us seen here mate!” here at Baggie Shorts Towers a tad Bristol was even be�er as we won nervous. But we have maintained a 3-0 in a skillful domina�ng display. I top two posi�on all season and was visi�ng my son and his family jus�ce was done in the end. So next so I had to wait to get out of the season we’ll be plying our trade in stadium complex and I took refuge the top division. in the KFC as one does. It was clear Some of our performances were that the home fans agreed they had fantas�c. I par�cularly enjoyed the been well beaten by a superior away days at Millwall and Bristol team and honestly I couldn’t City. Now, just as an aside both disagree. My huge inner smile was games took place in atrocious threatening to burst out into a large condi�ons of torren�al downpours laugh so I went out into the rain. and it would seem that we play However, I have really struggled to be�er in those condi�ons. find more than a small handful of A�er Millwall, Dave Wiltshire, Jon Prem quality players that will move Want, Aidan Rose and I re�red to on up with us. We honestly need a 05 new goalie as Johnstone is just too Hopefully, Slav will unearth some erra�c. Having said that, his stats real gems and make the whole were great. Our only Prem defender picture much more promising and is Gibbs but generally we only get posi�ve. ten to twelve games a season from We hope you enjoyed the previous him. Hegazi could be but his issue, our Africa Special, and one temperament lets him down; Semi former Baggie certainly did. Marc- has the talent but he needs to be An�one Fortuné took the �me to really up for it for every game; send us the following message: Bartley is a no no as are Furlong, Townsend and Pel�er. I wish Brunty Hi Glenn, I had a look at the would stay because he’d be in with a magazine and it’s a great good shout for le� back. O’Shea is ini�a�ve - it’s important to pay good enough. I hope but Sawyers is tribute to a con�nent that gave difficult - I’m not sure. and is s�ll giving so much talent to WBA and the Premier League. Krov, if we buy him, has poten�al, Pereira please stop being poleaxed The eagle-eyed amongst you may all the �me, Livermore and have no�ced that we erroneously Diangana if we buy him and with omi�ed Zambia-born Robert reinforcements up front we have to Earnshaw from our list of African say ta ta to Zohore, Phillips, HRK, Baggies – we corrected this in the Burke and Leko. Controversially, if electronic version (which you can Aus�n was to lose a load of weight find on our website) and the and get faster he could do it. Kyle editorial team would like to Edwards, Tulloch, and Soule are to apologise to Earnie for this stay as works in progress and guess oversight. we’d keep Grosicki as a sub. We’ll be back shortly a�er the start So, there is my take. Please write in of the new season and, in the to tell us your take and as you can mean�me, have a well deserved see it’s not a team full of Premier and wonderful break and let’s hope League quality as the commentators we do get those players in and have have been telling us all season! a successful season. See you then. We need to shoo away the moths as COYB! we open the Albion wallet because Glenn we need about eight quality players. 06 1976 and all that through the eyes of a legend Laurie Rampling interviews one of the all-time Albion greats, Tony “Bomber” Brown Oldham Athle�c 0 West Bromwich Albion 1 24th April 1976 At this �me of year, Albion’s very when a dream became a reality. The illustrious history is reflected in new ‘Messiah’ was a quiet talking anniversaries of so many pivotal southern Irishman named John achievements down through the Giles, small in stature, but huge in ages. There is the match against achievement, who turned Bradford Park Avenue in 1920 despondency into ela�on leading which is celebrated elsewhere in West Bromwich Albion, a football this issue when the Baggies secured team that many felt had had their the league �tle, visits to Wembley day, back to the promised land of 1931 and 1935, cup finals with the old First Division and restored mixed emo�ons, and the the pride of all the ‘right thinking’ promo�ons in 2002 and 2004, both folks that support the Throstles.
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