Exactly what I saw too. I was concerned when the physio was rotating his leg at the knee that it might be ligament damage particularly with the way he immediately went down when he was in a great position. Sounds odd but I was relieved to see blood on his knee as he walked by. Ligament damage could have put him out for the rest of the season.
Should be the city fans having a go at Long, I mean, the guy scores a goal and doesn't celebrate! What sort of player is he!!!!! (Please note this isn't a serious post. Thank you).
I saw those - a group of their fans surrounded me at the bar and tried to take the piss by saying 'TIGERS! GRRR!' over and over (do they not realise we've been known as the Tigers for over 100 years?) so obviously plenty of them came with the intention of taking the piss out of our 'new' nickname. The game itself shut them up though. I thought it was funny they were taking the piss - I turned round and said, You do realise your badge is a ****ing starling? ...they replied, no, it's a bird!
It actually really annoyed me. If WBA scored were there fans not going to score out of respect for Shane Long? As far as annoying football trends go it's up there with the snood for me.
You've set me off now. All the **** that players wear. Alice bands...may as well wear ****ing deely boppers. Laggy bands like that cock Bendntner. Bandage/glove to kiss when they score a la Suarez. Plasters on earrings...Just take the ****ers out. Bandannas...all them Sodje's. As mentioned, snoods. As mentioned, short sleeved shirts and gloves (FFS). Face masks like Phantom of the Opera. Petr Czechs balaclava. When was his injury?? Industrial eyeshields, Edgar Davids. Anymore anyone?
Petr Cech had major brain surgery and has a metal plate in his head. Never mind when his injury was he needs that headgear, one knock could kill him outright. Hardly an annoying football trend.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/shane-longs-wife-kayleah-long-6866460 Starting to wish Long celebrated by flipping the bird at the West Brom fans. I bet he's thinking the same now.
This always confused me as a kid. All the football books and bubbly cards and suchlike that I had always said that the West Brom bird was a throstle. Now birds in East Hull in the early 70s were quite scarce, and I searched in vain for a ****ing throstle. Mainly found starlings, blackbirds and the odd robin, but never found a throstle. I knew what they looked like from the badly drawn Throstles which adorned any mention of West Brom in Scorcher and Score but they just looked like thrushes to me. I took up twitching for a short while, but you tend to get funny looks creeping around the estates at dusk, armed with binoculars and a camera. Police don't buy the 'I'm looking for a throstle' line and offer to develop your film for you. I must have been in my 30s before I read somewhere that throstle is just a dialect word for thrush. No wonder the bloody bird looked like a thrush. It was a thrush. And no wonder that they changed their nickname to the frankly ludicrous 'Baggies' as otherwise they'd be named after a yeast infection that makes your fanny itch. And that would just make them sound stupid.
Shinpads ****ing hate em. Never wore em till it was compulsory, cant stand having socks pulled up either. Couldnt stand having long sleeves either, always had to roll em up. Long baggy shorts too, 80's ones were better. Looking back on it I dont like clothes much, too inhibiting. I'm naked right now.........
Sadly, most birds think it's a bit of a lark if you have thrush. They know it's a bit of an albatross if you end up being a red-throated diver !
