Well they always say a successful side needs a top class goalie! Oddly enough I didn't think WBA created much apart from the pens. We weren't great but hey ho we won.
Well it was scrappy and crappy but who cares! With the other results as they were we needed just 3 points, doesn't matter how we got them. As usual, the substitutions seemed ridiculous, though Behrami was worth bringing on. Suarez though? Offers absolutely nothing and Guerdiora was the only one of our team who was fighting for anything and trying to push forward. Madness. Deeney did ok but lollops a lot, and Ighalo has totally lost it and needs not to play for a while, perhaps til the end of the season..right now he's just losing value! Amrabat is chomping at the bit, give the boy a run for goodness sake! A shame Holebas was injured, Ake seems to have gone back to Chelsea for much of the game lately. Nyom is all over the place doing not very much at all, though seems very able to tackle himself on occasion. Sweet boy though lol. Was interesting to see Prodl and Britos together at the back, it worked well in the main, though Prodl scares me at times, he loses the ball easily and holds it just that second too long on occasion. Watson has also had a few off games, but the goal was fab! Good bit of skill that, i wonder if he meant it! lol It's good to see Capoue back in his right position, he's a different player in the centre and had a great game yesterday, and Jurado is frustrating, simply because he obviously has a lot to offer but he gives the ball away so much that all the good stuff he does is overshadowed. I like him though but as yet, can't see why we got rid of Forestieri! (still hurting about that!). But Gomes...oh Gomes...what a hero, what an absolute gent too. If he isn't player of the season this year (as he should have been last year imo) i will personally punch everyone who didn't vote for him! Can't see it not happening now though. And we are safe, i finally feel it! Weird that though we have recently been just 1 point behind Everton, and now are on equal points, i'm certain that non of their team, management or fans ever considered that they might be relegated...small team mentality from us eh? Happy days!
What about the first penalty? I was convinced at the time that their player was offside when he ran onto the ball, but can't find any videos with the right camera angle. MOTD didn't help - they just focussed on the guy jumping over Gomes after realising he'd pushed the ball too far ahead...
Funny how things turn out. This weekend I was supposed to be in Spain to see a match with some friends but, due to having a severe bout of lurgy from January into March I had to cancel that trip. I was consoling myself with the prospect of going out on a pub crawl in Berkhamsted with another group of friends that had long been arranged.... then that got cancelled on Friday night. So thanks to the old social media network I found a ticket and picked that up yesterday morning. Mrs HF was very accommodating and drove me to a not entirely local train station... Birmingham has changed remarkably even since the Villa game and I arrived at neither Moor St or Snow Hill which completely threw me. Fortunately a very accommodating chap, Baggies fan and a Muslim (just bear with me), helped me find my way. This chap, out shopping for his wife, went out of his way to help me find the pub I was looking for. He was insistent even though it was pretty much the opposite way from where he was going and wanted to know where it was for his own benefit - he knew plenty of the other pubs around but not that one. Decent human being, however much disdain I have for his religion (I am firmly in the Sam Harris camp regarding his religion, but I digress), and it was he who approached me as I was trying to get my bearings with my yellow and black scarf flapping in the breeze. Talked football all the way before he bid me good day and went on his way. Top bloke. Met a pal in the pub, unexpectedly, and he was taking his girlfriend to her first ever football match... odd that such a technically poor match should throw up such historical and emotionally charged moments, we're none of us likely to witness that again. The game we all know about but I was standing next to a thoroughly decent chap (although how the two numpties standing in the aisle next time were allowed to get away with it is beyond me) pleasant, knowledgeable and supportive vocally and you can't ask for more than that. There were plenty of foul mouthed "comedians" around... Post match was equally as good and the Albion fans I met on the team and in the pub after were all thoroughly pleasant and they've gone right up in my estimation compared with the boorish mob at the Vic earlier in the season. All the trains ran on time and Mrs HF cooked me a rather splendid dinner washed down with a fine 10% barley wine. A good night's sleep sees me awake with, somehow, no hangover! As "Plan C" goes I'd say that's as good as it gets!
I've freeze framed it from the original angle and by today's standards he is definitely offside on the available evidence.
Great result yesterday.... we were having a 95th party for my mum on a local hotel... .a WHU friend enjoyed updating me about the penalties and then leaving me hanging. Great to be a with a few other WFC supporters too
Great day put and a good win, although probably not deserved. It is interesting how different people have different experiences at games - Fez seemed to find decent WBA supporters and I seemed to find some very unpleasant ones. There was the chap at Snow Hill station singing vile Homophobic songs about Elton, luckily for us both Little Miss W_Y managed to distract me from responding! Then there were the idiots in the ground giving abuse and not being able to handle being wound up about the football - one was arrested after throwing punches at their own stewards! Also when we got on the train at MK, it was full with of Millwall supporters on their way to Coventry, it was like being on the set of a FV film like Green St. - funniest was a bloke clearly in his 50's desperately trying to hide his "gear" in his Y-fronts when the train pulled into Coventry and he realised the platform was full of Police!
I will see what I can do. I'm saying "definitely" but the reality is it rather assumes Prödl is the penultimate defender.
Gee whizz. Looks like you got the worst of it. I met Villa, Brum and Walsall fans during the day and they were all quite alright. I saw the muppet in red get "escorted" to the door from the home end. Took about eight or nine stewards to get him gone.
I wonder how many clubs have had 2 keepers save 2 penalties as part of clean sheets in away league games? In both cases, the keeper committed the foul for the first one (Richard Lee at Southampton in October 2008). Also, in each game, the penalties were both in the same half - first half at St Mary's, second half yesterday.
I was thinking about that, and the subsequent song 'Richard Lee saves penalties...' Could now be 'H G saves penalties' echoing the recent 'mercurial' thread.
Hi H, was great to see you as well. No you were fine, we went down the front after half time as we had a tight schedule to get the train back and needed to be close to the exit - the WBS idiots were right down the front as well and were giving big time. Well until one got arrested for swing a punch at a steward. Going to Liverpool?
Heurelho Gomes a wonderful sight He dives to the left, he dives to the right Those penalty takers Turn into boot quakers Keeping the Hornets among the top flight
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I didn't know Gomes had saved 2 before in a game. Maybe we ought to play him against Palace just incase. Then again you know what life as a goalie is like - he might drop a clanger!
anyone have the view that the second penalty was bought about by the WBA player simply tripping over our players foot. Our player did not attempt to trip him, his foot was just there, supporting him up. the WBA player just tripped over it in my view. Where is the intent, where is the foul?
