WBA's season 08/09 - RIPThe Rhodes household went very quiet on Sunday afternoon, once we discovered that the mighty West Bromwich Albion had lost to Liverpool and thus been relegated back to the Championship. Now, in fairness, this is a biannual occurrence to which we're well used at the moment. The Baggies regularly bounce up and down from the Premiership so it's not altogether surprising.
However, what has made me proud to be a second-hand West Brom fan is how sporting the crowd were during the match and the team and manager have been afterwards. The crowd knew that they were likely to go down this weekend, what with playing against some of the best players in the world an' all, but they sang their hearts out for the whole 90 minutes and clapped the manager as he and the players did a lap of (dis)honour. No calls for Mowbray's head. No vast scenes of huge grief. Just, according to various reports, including Midlands Today (so it must be true), a plan for every WBA fan at the Blackburn match this weekend to wear a Tony Mowbray mask, to show their support.
I think a few other football clubs could learn from the sporting attitude of the Albion fans, even if they've nothing to learn from the fairly rubbish performance of the team! A few MPs could learn something, too, I reckon. You know - fair play and no witch hunt, etc etc...
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