Reply With QuoteToo young (chuckles to self aged 54) to remember the game but I do remember my dad telling me Walsall played a 'home' fixture at the Hawthorns when they were in Division Three. They played Brighton.
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I have been trying to think of a game involving Walsall and another team that was played at the Hawthorns around 1970.
The only reason I recall it was because Walsall fans came in the Brummie and Albion fans started supporting Walsall for the game. Until that is they started singing we've got the Brummie Road in our hands. All hell broke loose and the Walsall fans had to escape across the pitch. When the gates opened Albion fan's went around the Smethwick and attacked them again, then smashed the windows on the buses they were on. I think Albion fans got a little bit peed off that night.
Did anyone else attend that game and can you recall who Walsall's opponents were? I was about 15 or 16.
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Too young (chuckles to self aged 54) to remember the game but I do remember my dad telling me Walsall played a 'home' fixture at the Hawthorns when they were in Division Three. They played Brighton.
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I also attended a game Burnley v Swindon at the Hawthorns in 1968 or 69. We were in the Brummie which the Burnley fan's had been allocated, and Swindon had the Smethwick. The game went into extra time but ten minutes before the end when the gates opened a large group of Albion fan's surged through the gates. The rest of the game was played out to continual fighting the fan's going at it like cat's and dogs.
I still wonder where such a large group of Albion fan's came from at the end of full time, it's not like our ground is in a town centre.
My best guess is that it would have been the Smethwick Mob.
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Cheers me Mon. Goes to show how my love for the game has diminished. I would go to a game whoever was playing and the reserves as well. Now I can hardly be bothered to watch a game on TV.Originally Posted by Albionic68
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No worries Des'. Dad had a soft spot for Walsall. There was another team from down the road who played three home games at ours following a pitch invasion and an attack on a referee at theirs just after the First World War. Wolves.
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I didn't think they were like that in Wolverhampton?😉
The Burnley game was a cup tie and I believe Swindon beat them. It must have been a second replay being as it was at ours.
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