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Post by MarkWolstanton on Aug 30, 2011 12:09:42 GMT
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Aug 30, 2011 12:11:25 GMT
..and you thought The Sentinal was a rag!
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Post by sheikhmomo on Aug 30, 2011 12:24:43 GMT
'Outplaying'  |
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on Aug 30, 2011 12:30:12 GMT
Please tell me when one header manged to become "a host of chances"??
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Aug 30, 2011 12:30:45 GMT
Please tell me when one header manged to become "a host of chances"?? Correct. |
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Post by andylgr on Aug 30, 2011 12:38:56 GMT
..........and they still lost despite being so dominant. Its getting the ball in the net that counts ;D ;D
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Post by mark71 on Aug 30, 2011 12:39:41 GMT
..and you thought The Sentinal was a rag! It is but The Excuse and star is lower than gutter level. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 12:40:33 GMT
The fans comments at the end are better than the article...my favourite was.." just what voodoo God do they pray to up there?"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 12:45:17 GMT
The fans comments at the end are better than the article...my favourite was.." just what voodoo God do they pray to up there?" I love the Baggies ;D |
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Post by sirpineapple89 on Aug 30, 2011 12:50:16 GMT
Substitute Ryan Shotton pounced on Foster’s 90th-minute fumble to give the Potters an undeserved victory and prolong their lengthy hold over the Baggies.
Fair enough, but it was hardly as if we were battered for the entire 90 minutes.
Albion were dominant for most of the game and went close through both Shane Long and Somen Tchoyi.
Hahahahaha
The Baggies were in charge during the first half, dealing effectively with Stoke’s strong-arm methods and outplaying the Potters.
They had a host of chances, the first of which arrived when Tchoyi got the better of Marc Wilson on the Albion right and crossing into the centre, where Chris Brunt banged heads with Robert Huth as he nodded wide.
What? One clear cut chance and a couple of hit and hopes?
It was Ryan Shawcross who Tchoyi beat
A Brunt free-kick from the left was then headed by Paul Scharner too close to goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, before the best chance of the half was almost converted by Long.
The Irishman did superbly to beat Wilson to a Tchoyi cross and power a header at goal, but it was beaten away by Begovic.
Youssouf Mulumbu fired over the bar from distance, after a Tchoyi cross was half-cleared by Jonathan Woodgate, and another fine flowing Albion move ended with Brunt’s cross from the left skidding away from Long and Scharner in the centre.
Yawn. Beautiful football blah blah blah
A Brunt free-kick then just eluded Jonas Olsson at the far post, before a more central set-piece was bent a yard wide by Brunt.
Stoke’s only real chance of the first half arrived in stoppage-time, when Jermaine Pennant headed wide from a cross by Matthew Etherington.
But they went close again soon after the restart when they cut out a Gabriel Tamas free-kick and hit the Baggies on the break, with Jonathan Walters teeing up Glenn Whelan to slide a shot just wide.
The match was a closer contest now, but the Baggies were still edging it and they threatened when Tchoyi received a pass from Nicky Shorey on the edge of the box and bent a shot just wide.
It was about 4 yards wide and struck with the power of that of a six year-old girl.
With 13 minutes remaining, the Baggies were inches away again as Steven Reid’s cross from the right was headed back across goal by Scharner and Tchoyi volleyed just wide from the edge of the box.
Again, about five yards wide
But, in the final minute ,Walters’ hopeful ball forward was fumbled by Foster – apparently expecting a headed backpass from Gabriel Tamas – on the edge of his box and Shotton nipped in to score.
TOO FUCKING RIGHT
It's good to see that they're still so gracious in defeat.
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Post by Fenparkpotter on Aug 30, 2011 13:01:07 GMT
Wouldn't it be refreshing just for once if they said it how it was.... neither team played good football, there weren't many chances... Stoke pinched it and put in a good away performance whereas West Brom didn't capitalise on a decent start and keep the pressure on Stoke.
The game was petering out since about the 20th minute... we kept it tight and snatched it.
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Post by swampySCFC on Aug 30, 2011 13:13:52 GMT
I do love these annual dominant Albion reports. They keep me going ;D ;D ;D
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Post by ratslair on Aug 30, 2011 13:36:24 GMT
WHY don't they just give up and send us the 3 points every time ?
boing boing bag o' s*it hahahaha
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Post by wednesburystokie on Aug 30, 2011 13:38:50 GMT
Express and star blows smoke up west broms arse every day, and wolves, and even Walsall, but they dont seem to like Villa.
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Post by dexter97 on Aug 30, 2011 13:52:27 GMT
Credit to them for not claiming that the goal should've been disallowed, though. That report places all the blame for the goal at the hands of Foster, which is a bit of a surprise.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 14:10:37 GMT
Wednesbury- the Express and Star is a Black Country paper, and the Villa are Birminghams star club- makes sense when you look at the dislike the Yam Yams have for brummies and visa versa
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Post by wednesburystokie on Aug 30, 2011 14:17:07 GMT
express and star is regional paper over the west mids and has a few different versions, Wolverhampton, Sandwell etc, but due to reporting restrictions they have the same back page on all editions.
Its a bit like Central News a few years ago we were only mentioned when we were doing well, whereas Villa and Birmingham were mentioned whenever a player farted.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 14:35:15 GMT
Wednesbury- it is a Black Country paper which has a very limited Birmingham edition so I wouldnt call it a regional paper ....by the way how the f*uck did you end up in Wednesbury, I used to do housing mangement in Sandwell and the folk from Wednesbury could moan....God could they moan...There is a term in Law known as "classic Wednesbury unreasonableness" and if youve worked there you know why
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Post by ted1965 on Aug 30, 2011 14:54:29 GMT
obviously a host of chances has a different meaning in the black country, everywhere else it means you had 7 or 8 presentable chances in a game that force the opposition goalkeeper into action or hit the woodwork or go narrowly wide, it seems the excuse and stir's interpretation is any ball which crosses the goal line between the two corner flags interesting analogy but worthy of their journalistic bias.
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Post by wednesburystokie on Aug 30, 2011 14:54:55 GMT
Wednesbury- it is a Black Country paper which has a very limited Birmingham edition so I wouldnt call it a regional paper ....by the way how the f*uck did you end up in Wednesbury, I used to do housing mangement in Sandwell and the folk from Wednesbury could moan....God could they moan...There is a term in Law known as "classic Wednesbury unreasonableness" and if youve worked there you know why agree with what you say about the Wednesbury 'mentality' or lack of it, but with regarss to coverage it has Shropshire, Walsall and Mids Staffs editions, so hardly purely a Black Country paper, even though its printed there. As for the Villa coverage, as i said 'if they are doing ok' |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 15:06:14 GMT
Shorpshire Star is a very different paper, with its own accounts, but with more of a focus on Wolves on the sporting angle- it is a seperate paper as far as I understand but sits within a group of papers which owns also the Mail or the express (cant remember which)....had many dealings woth the Express and Star over the years and it is most certainlya Black Country paper ( it moans a lot)
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Post by wednesburystokie on Aug 30, 2011 15:22:00 GMT
Shorpshire Star is a very different paper, with its own accounts, but with more of a focus on Wolves on the sporting angle- it is a seperate paper as far as I understand but sits within a group of papers which owns also the Mail or the express (cant remember which)....had many dealings woth the Express and Star over the years and it is most certainlya Black Country paper ( it moans a lot) and the Walsall and staffs versions are extensions of the same paper, with some regional tweeks, just like the sentinel with the Cheshire and Stafford versions (not sure if the sentinel still do these) But anyway, i think the point is errrrr i've forgotten ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 15:26:19 GMT
we agree- they moan a lot...that response is too reasonable- your from Wedensbury your supposed to keep on arguing...is it true that people are born without necks in Tipton and wednesbury, and that if you become a labour councillor you live for ever?
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