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07/11/2025

No age at all this

Please spread the word and join in if you can remember .

Rest in peace to our fellow baggie from across the pond 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

- brummie

07/11/2025

- brummie

05/11/2025

This is such an incredible story

- brummie

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, here's an incredible story about how a Wednesbury man and former West Bromwich Albion player became one of the first members of the SAS.

Sergeant Harold White started his football career on the works team at the Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, before playing for Darlaston and then The Baggies.

He played 27 consecutive games after his debut in September 1938 and then three opening games of the next season, before it was abandoned when war broke out.

He enlisted in January 1940, and in 1941 he became one of the first members of L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade - a commando unit in North Africa - which later became the first SAS regiment.

He was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry during a raid on an airfield in Libya in December 1941.

He was wounded in the raid but recovered to see further action in Sicily, occupied France, including the Normandy landings, and at the Rhine.

Harold finished the war as a Sergeant. On his return home he was based with the army near Hereford and when Hereford United were desperate for players at short notice for an FA Cup-tie at home to Moor Green, Harold was drafted in at right-back for just the one match.

He was 29 by the time the war ended in 1945 and his injuries meant that he could no longer play professional football, having made 36 league appearances for West Brom in the 1938-1939 season. Harold died in 1981 aged 65.

What an incredible story - thanks to Mark Whitehouse for sharing with us, and also to Harold's daughter Carol, who still lives locally.

05/11/2025

I listened to Ryan Mason's interview yesterday

And you know what . Credit where credit is due be was critical of himself and it does take balls to come out on a radio/ Tv interview and say I haven't been got enough and I have a massive respect for him as a person for doing that . Takes a real man to do that .

Sadly I think he is just tatically inept . His subs are bizarre , poorly timed and usually don't impact the game as it's always like for like

I like Mason as a person but I just don't think he is the right fit for our club personally .

It's ashame it really is . His young and English and I want more English managers thriving in English football .

But sadly I don't think this one is working out and you have to do what's best for the club . And that seemingly would be letting him go if we don't get a result against Oxford .

- brummie

04/11/2025

Credit of course to Steve Hermon Radio for this snippet , follow him on socials a friend of the page and a fantastic journalist .

What I don't get it is " at the moment I'm doing enough or giving enough "

Now this could be me been a thick brummie incorrectly reading in-between the lines

But if you acknowledge you havent been doing enough.

Why havent you been doing more ? If you yourself are not realizing you aren't doing enough. Why hasnt anything changed ?

His young and English. Really wanted him to work out but sadly I think we do need to be looking at someone else in the dugout

- brummie

04/11/2025

Questions clearly need to be asked

If we don't get 3 points against Oxford I really think our board need to think about letting him go

- brummie

04/11/2025

Good morning baggies fans

Wishing all those traveling down to the capital a safe and happy journey to and from.

Score predictions for today ? fans

Usually I try and be positive I really do . But based off the last three performances and been away from home

I honestly cant see us getting a result . Based off recent performances I think we would be lucky to get a draw

I think we will loose tonight 2-1

Really hope I am wrong though

- brummie

02/11/2025

Look at the names he is ahead of

It's insane when you see who he is ahead of

- brummie

02/11/2025

One thing I thought about this and I could be wrong this thought just popped into my head.

Nestor is very data driven and everything is data driven .

How much data could you possibly extract from Ryan Mason's 13 games in the space of 2 years of sporadic interim games coached as an interim .

I called we would go down hill the second corberan left that's why I never called for his head .

I honestly don't think Ryan Mason is the answer . Besusee his body language suggests he don't have any .

If we don't get a result against Charlton

I think he could seriously get the chop

- brummie

01/11/2025

Just to be clear on my earlier status

I wasn't calling for Mason's head

I was just making the point that we was playing so diabolically poor and he was just stood there

Not giving instructions , no animation no communication , no body language , no emotion by the look of it .

Just because I critiqued his demeanor. It dont mean I am calling for him to be sacked

I was just really upset that the fans ( in the brummie road I can only attest to)

Was really animated by the performance while he was just stood there with his arms crossed .

It did irritate me I expressed my views but don't mistake me saying serious questions needs to be asked is me asking him for him to be sacked

- brummie

01/11/2025

Gutless , spineless no desire

No passion from team our gaffer

No animation from team or bench ,

Mason standing there like a fu***ng wet lettuce .

Angry is not the word I am actually speechless

Serious , serious questions need to be asked

In the interest of fairness diakite played well . The only one who only tried to get the ball forward and passed well.

Sidewards backwards no intent

The players ( bar diakite and subs ) and Ryan Mason should hang their head in shame

- brummie