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Smart A*!, I rephrase .. when was the last time prior to these two?

when was the last time Wednesday had two brothers on the pitch? ps frustrated and a little bored watching today’s game!

My dad is 95 in May .. born 1930. We went to QPR at Loftus Road a couple of weeks ago… thoroughly enjoyable afternoon! He didn’t really start going to Hillsborogh until after the War .. late 1940s

This was my first year of watching Wednesday .. I remember all the players well but have no context as to how good they were.. So it may be beginning of the season but we’re top and playing in “the finest club stadium in the land” per Mr Wostenholme. What went wrong between 1967, obviously a good team coming off cup final appearance and 2/3 seasons later when we go down?

We went on an Owls bus from Pond St. took about 4 hours to get to London and another 4 hours to get through London to Selhurst Park! Only to then discover the game was on MOD (a very rare occurence).

We were at School with your Dad. Remember him v well. Good footballer as well. Didn’t see so much of him after the Cornwall move, although we did bump into him at the Exeter promotion game in 1980! Much love and thoughts to you and your family.

So we played our 5,000 game last night, Alan Finney was there who played 504 times for the Owls, over 10% of all games we ever played. Wondering how many games our most loyal (longest suffering) fan has seen??

We went down to Hillsboro for pre-season training and got this photo with Wee Willie…I’m guessing c.1971-2

A compliment for the ‘here to help’ staff at Wembley. I was with my Dad (a strikingly young 93 year old) and we’d completed a pretty challenging walk to our Block from the Wembley Stadium station. I saw someone being helped by one of the team in a wheelchair amd enquired if we could get help back to the Station after the game. They promptly put him in a chair, took him to our seats in Block 203. They then arranged to meet us at the end of the game and wheeled him back almost to the Stadium. A terrific young guy called Ryan, couldn’t have been more kind amd helpful. Fantastic day out with my daughter, son-in-law and Dad together with a number of Wednesday mates of 50+ years of friendship. UTO.

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Thanks!

Will the game be showing at Legends this afternoon?

Even better … being on holiday in India and seeing a kid in a United shirt, quietly said “up the owls” as we walked past and his Dad told me to f..off

Thanks!

Hi Paddy, any channel to watch the game from NY this weekend? My VPN not beating the region restrictions on Sky.

Thank you

Cont * Hirst were his favourite players but Byers’ goal last night was quality (q Tommy Craig) I thought! maybe one more trip to Wembley in May

Just wanted to say thank you for the best wishes for my Mum. I couldn’t work out how to reply to each comment! Tech skills lacking. To the requests to put his boots on next week, he says at his current hight he wouldn’t be much good up front . He’d still say Dooley, Quixall and Horst

Very enjoyable evening at Hillsborough.. up in Sheffield as my lovely mum is in the Northern General and took Dad to the game. He’s 92 in May. Wondered if he was the oldest fella in the ground. ps good to win..thought Sam Hutchinson was the best player on the pitch by a mile and Mendez-Laing looks a good acquisition.

Lovely post. What I find extraordinary is looking at the team from 1972. Every one of our players is instantly remembered. Some such as wee Willie were legends. Hard to fathom why we were such a poor team! Show me a programme from 5 years ago and I wouldn’t be able to recall half the side.

Got the same issue ... did anyone come up with a solution / a VPN that works?

Saw DH at a charity concert last December along with some incredible others including Bruce S, James Taylor, Sting and the Eurythmics. On leaving I asked my wife who she was most impressed to have seen ... straight away she said ..Blondie

We were sat on the second row of the North Stand. I remember the game and the crowd on the kop. I was taken by a neighbour who was the night editor of the Star as my dad worked on Saturdays. Dad took me to night matches until we were allowed to go on our own Aged 9 or 10! First Season Ticket was the 70/71 season in Div 2.

Celebrating my 60th Birthday this weekend I was sent the attached programme from our opening day of the 1960/61 season. Fascinating content including the debenture offer to fund the new North Stand. Also that the West Brom team included both Bobby Robson and Don Howe, both of whom went on to be pretty impressive managers! Believe we came second in the first division that season .. better times. I went to my first match in 1966 at beginning of the 66/67 season and earliest match memory is beating Man U 5-4 in 1968.