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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: montague on December 06, 2011, 10:30:28 AM

Title: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: montague on December 06, 2011, 10:30:28 AM: If this is the best the region has to offer West Midlands football really is in a trough.

http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2011/12/05/birmingham-mail-midlands-xi-which-aston-villa-birmingham-city-west-brom-and-wolves-players-have-made-our-first-team-97319-29894275/ (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2011/12/05/birmingham-mail-midlands-xi-which-aston-villa-birmingham-city-west-brom-and-wolves-players-have-made-our-first-team-97319-29894275/)
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: pauliewalnuts on December 06, 2011, 10:45:38 AM: If that's the best the Evening Mail graphics department can do, then they're really in a trough too.

They've made the white on the Albion stripes transparent.
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: Hookeysmith on December 06, 2011, 12:31:08 PM: There was a time when it would have been our starting 11 apart from one or two exceptional performances from a single player from each other team

How we have fallen
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: PeterWithesShin on December 06, 2011, 01:11:33 PM: Those kits look like those little cardboard tab things I had as a kid where you had a tab for each team and then a set of tables so as you could do your own league tables. I think you got them from something like Shoot. Anyone else remember them?
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: montague on December 06, 2011, 03:00:14 PM: Quote from: PeterWithesShin on December 06, 2011, 01:11:33 PM
Those kits look like those little cardboard tab things I had as a kid where you had a tab for each team and then a set of tables so as you could do your own league tables. I think you got them from something like Shoot. Anyone else remember them?

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/football-banter/Got-Not-Got-extract-from-the-must-have-football-nostalgia-book-by-Derek-Hammond-and-Gary-Silke-article831398.html
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: Steve R on December 06, 2011, 10:56:12 PM: Quote from: PeterWithesShin on December 06, 2011, 01:11:33 PM
Those kits look like those little cardboard tab things I had as a kid where you had a tab for each team and then a set of tables so as you could do your own league tables. I think you got them from something like Shoot. Anyone else remember them?

There are times when I actually feel sorry for the Playstation/PS3 generation.
Title: Re: West Midlands "team of the week"
Post by: VillaSpen on December 07, 2011, 12:43:15 AM: I loved League Ladders.

This Midlands Team Of The Week is depressing. In a depressing season it's one of the last things I needed to see.