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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Villa Lew on June 14, 2017, 01:11:08 PM
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
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Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
Yeah you're right about Milner, but I was not thinking about him. One of the facts was it was our 1st game after Martin O'Neil's resignation, which you obviously knew, but there is another thing.
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
Yeah you're right about Milner, but I was not thinking about him. One of the facts was it was our 1st game after Martin O'Neil's resignation, which you obviously knew, but there is another thing.
One of the few opening games we've actually won?
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
Yeah you're right about Milner, but I was not thinking about him. One of the facts was it was our 1st game after Martin O'Neil's resignation, which you obviously knew, but there is another thing.
One of the few opening games we've actually won?
One of the few games this century we actually looked like a footballing team?
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I spent the entire afternoon and evening that day preparing a buffet for my kids christening, the first and last time a shall ever do it.
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
Yeah you're right about Milner, but I was not thinking about him. One of the facts was it was our 1st game after Martin O'Neil's resignation, which you obviously knew, but there is another thing.
One of the few opening games we've actually won?
One of the few games this century we actually looked like a footballing team?
Be fair, this decade. There were some good years pre-2010.
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As KMac was in charge of the kids I'm wondering if he gave a youngster his debut.
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There was a massive thunderstorm and Albrighton looked like he would go on to win medals he played that well.
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Milner's last game - his performance was over-rated I thought. Petrov ran the show.
Did we have to wear our away shirts or something cos the kit-stealers had their kits stolen or was that the previous year?
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What are the 2 things significant about the West Ham game on the opening day of the 2010-11 season?
I am shooting in the dark here bur was it Macdonalds only league game in charge and James Milners last game for the club?
Iv'e already realised I am wrong. He was in charge for the battering at Newcastle and I think he had another spell in charge.
Yeah you're right about Milner, but I was not thinking about him. One of the facts was it was our 1st game after Martin O'Neil's resignation, which you obviously knew, but there is another thing.
One of the few opening games we've actually won?
One of the few games this century we actually looked like a footballing team?
Be fair, this decade. There were some good years pre-2010.
There were some good results. The football was mainly shite.
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Lionel Messi posted a tweet during the game, saying that Ashley Young was "having a blinder"
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There's a clue in the question.
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There's a clue in the question.
Are you the good Doctor in disguise?
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Clue no 2, nothing to do with the actual match, but what happened on that occasion has not happened since.
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Is it something to do with the amount of home grown players in the squad?
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Was it our last 3pm Saturday first game of the season st home?
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Was it our last 3pm Saturday first game of the season st home?
95% right it was the last time we played the opening game of the season at home, since then all the games have been away.
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Missed that game as went to a wedding in Oxford. Sadly the groom is no longer with us. :(
Was getting text updates from someone at the game and was surprised at the ease at which we won given we were in turmoil at the time with MON walking out. Thought we'd go onto to have another decent season and then Newcastle happened a week later!
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Was it our last 3pm Saturday first game of the season st home?
95% right it was the last time we played the opening game of the season at home, since then all the games have been away.
One of the more hysterical outbursts on the old mailing list was that four aways on the opening day of the season in a row was proof of an FA conspiracy against us.
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Was it our last 3pm Saturday first game of the season st home?
95% right it was the last time we played the opening game of the season at home, since then all the games have been away.
One of the more hysterical outbursts on the old mailing list was that four aways on the opening day of the season in a row was proof of an FA conspiracy against us.
Four consecutive away games in row is harsh but surely that means it must even itself out with consecutive home games at a later point in the season. Sorry, just realised you were not talking about a run of away games, just a run of opening away games.
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My lad was one of the mascots at that game and told John Carew in the tunnel that he had named his goldfish after him. Do I win?
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Milner's performance was not overrated. He went off to a standing ovation.
And that thunderstorm was biblical. I was grateful I was well under the Holte End roof. Although I had just been chucked so maybe would have welcomed being struck by lightning.
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Looking at the last 30 odd years, we do appear to go through spells......
2011-2016 started 0 out of 6 at home
2002-2010 started at 7 out of 9 at home
1989-2001 started 3 out of 13 at home
1981-1988 started 6 out of 8 at home
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Clue no 2, nothing to do with the actual match, but what happened on that occasion has not happened since.
Was it that I got pissed in a bar with a load of dodgy scousers in Tenerife, cos that hasn't happened since.
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Twenty pages of hope. (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=39755.msg1555088#msg1555088)
Exactly what you want from the first game of the season.
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Twenty pages of hope. (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=39755.msg1555088#msg1555088)
Exactly what you want from the first game of the season.
It's easy to say now but I would've given McDonald the job until a decent manager during that season had become available (not Houllier in my mind as he was past it). Yes we had Newcastle and Vienna car crashes but we were picking up points, 7 from 5 games so I'm pretty sure we would've been ticking over nicely in mid table given we still had good quality in the squad.
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Was it the last time we won our first game of the season?
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Twenty pages of hope. (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=39755.msg1555088#msg1555088)
Exactly what you want from the first game of the season.
It's easy to say now but I would've given McDonald the job until a decent manager during that season had become available (not Houllier in my mind as he was past it). Yes we had Newcastle and Vienna car crashes but we were picking up points, 7 from 5 games so I'm pretty sure we would've been ticking over nicely in mid table given we still had good quality in the squad.
That thread almost brings me to tears. The level of optimism on there, everybody could see it. There's some wonderful quotes on there, including Paulies "That was what I imagined it was like for people who managed to escape East Germany in the 1970s".
Wonderful stuff.
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Milner's performance was not overrated. He went off to a standing ovation.
And that thunderstorm was biblical. I was grateful I was well under the Holte End roof. Although I had just been chucked so maybe would have welcomed being struck by lightning.
Agree. Milner was awesome that day particualry as the deal with City was done and he could have missed the game or taken it easy for fear of being injured. Three nil at a canter
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Twenty pages of hope. (http://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=39755.msg1555088#msg1555088)
Exactly what you want from the first game of the season.
It's easy to say now but I would've given McDonald the job until a decent manager during that season had become available (not Houllier in my mind as he was past it). Yes we had Newcastle and Vienna car crashes but we were picking up points, 7 from 5 games so I'm pretty sure we would've been ticking over nicely in mid table given we still had good quality in the squad.
That thread almost brings me to tears. The level of optimism on there, everybody could see it. There's some wonderful quotes on there, including Paulies "That was what I imagined it was like for people who managed to escape East Germany in the 1970s".
Wonderful stuff.
Amazing to think that was the first game after finishing 6th three times in the premier league.
I know we were more functional than free flowing under MON and he wasted so much money on bog standard squad players but the last 7 years have been pretty sobering given how dumbed down things have got.