Season Tickets

[Brend'Watkins]

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You'll do for me son , Bronx hat is in the post.

Ha ha ha, excellent!

Don't geddit, can you explain please as I have a feeling it's very funny.

It was a BRMB Friday/Saturday Night phone in thing from yesteryear, 30+ years ago I’d say. Tom Ross was the host dishing them out and they were given out if a good point or discussion had been made. It always ascended into idiocy with people saying something banal and then demanding said Bronx hat. The idea must have been to raise the level of debate from “Alright Tom, Blues fan here, Villa are rubbish, how d’ya think the Blues will get on tomorrow? Can I have a Bronx hat?”

[eamonn]

Ah, OK, cheers!

[AV82EC]

I’ve always wanted to ask this but what the actual fuck is a Bronx Hat?

[Des Little]

A forerunner of today's beanie.  Or basically the same thing.

[Gareth]

Think Benny from Crossroads hat in club colours

[London Villan]

They were cheap beanie hats that Tom Ross got a job lot of in Villa/small heath/baggies colours with an XtraAM or Capital Gold logo on it.

[AV82EC]

Thanks everyone. I was envisaging some sort of Cowboy Hat.

[Des Little]

I think the only Cowboy hat seen in the Bronx was on Jon Voight's head in Midnight Cowboy

[Lucky Eddie]

Anyone else have a mid eighties chicken hat?

[Ads]

I remember this from my days as a nipper, so it definitely wasn't just 30 years ago, a lot more recent than that.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

They were cheap beanie hats that Tom Ross got a job lot of in Villa/small heath/baggies colours with an XtraAM or Capital Gold logo on it.

BRMB surely?

[London Villan]

Im pretty sure there was more than one version, but yep to the BRMB version too.

[Nii Lamptey]

For the first time in forever, I've just managed to snag one of the last remaining away tickets for Newcastle next week... and then realised it's the fecking late kickoff and my brother is getting married in Bristol the following day. FFS!

With that kickoff time, I'm guessing there are no trains back to Birmingham (post-final whistle) that evening either?

[lennythekad]

For the first time in forever, I've just managed to snag one of the last remaining away tickets for Newcastle next week... and then realised it's the fecking late kickoff and my brother is getting married in Bristol the following day. FFS!

With that kickoff time, I'm guessing there are no trains back to Birmingham (post-final whistle) that evening either?

1943 is the last train back to New Street. Game should finish 1920-25 ish. Could make it, if you get your skates on (subject to the new ruling re. added time).

[VillaTim]

For the first time in forever, I've just managed to snag one of the last remaining away tickets for Newcastle next week... and then realised it's the fecking late kickoff and my brother is getting married in Bristol the following day. FFS!

With that kickoff time, I'm guessing there are no trains back to Birmingham (post-final whistle) that evening either?

1943 is the last train back to New Street. Game should finish 1920-25 ish. Could make it, if you get your skates on (subject to the new ruling re. added time).

Simple, when we go 3-0 up in the 79th minute, head for the station.
Out of interest how did you manage to bag a ticket ? I'd have assumed they'd be snapped up immediately or handed over to Terrace View members ?