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Author Topic: 150th Anniversary game  (Read 34419 times)

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #240 on: January 11, 2025, 04:47:35 PM »
I believe it every time I go up Heathfield Road. I just choose to.

Same here!

When we were kids an uncle lived at the bottom of Heatbfield opposite the houses with the murals. I always used to think at night that one of the lampposts outside may have been THE lamppost.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #241 on: January 11, 2025, 08:46:40 PM »
Best i could do



Who’s the bloke on the left with the flat cap on? He looks like to bloke who’s chasing bond along The Tiber in Spectre.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #242 on: January 11, 2025, 08:57:27 PM »
Best i could do



Who’s the bloke on the left with the flat cap on? He looks like to bloke who’s chasing bond along The Tiber in Spectre.

Luciano Pavarotti.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #243 on: January 11, 2025, 09:09:40 PM »
Best i could do



Who’s the bloke on the left with the flat cap on? He looks like to bloke who’s chasing bond along The Tiber in Spectre.

Elmohamady ?

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #244 on: January 11, 2025, 09:14:55 PM »
That footage on twitter of the club's 150th party at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, kicks off with Lee Hendrie saying "I've never been in here before".

Lol, poor Lee, quelle surprise.

Looks like it was a good night.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #245 on: January 11, 2025, 09:37:06 PM »
Best i could do



Who’s the bloke on the left with the flat cap on? He looks like to bloke who’s chasing bond along The Tiber in Spectre.

Luciano Pavarotti.

Has he been on the slim-fast plan?

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #246 on: January 11, 2025, 09:39:19 PM »
Best i could do



Who’s the bloke on the left with the flat cap on? He looks like to bloke who’s chasing bond along The Tiber in Spectre.

Elmohamady ?

Could be 🤷‍♂️

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #247 on: January 13, 2025, 04:19:19 PM »
Not sure if they showed the video on the telly, so if you didn’t see it here’s how it was at the match…

https://x.com/bradders_david/status/1878236618789634270?s=46&t=GdM6cpVxe5IloByNCRheWA

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #248 on: January 13, 2025, 07:14:17 PM »
Anyone who missed out buying one of the sold out programmes last Friday  can purchase one online .Have to pay postage but beats paying £25 on ebay .

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/january/13/order-150th-anniversary-matchday-programme/

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #249 on: January 13, 2025, 07:45:02 PM »
Anyone who missed out buying one of the sold out programmes last Friday  can purchase one online .Have to pay postage but beats paying £25 on ebay .

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/january/13/order-150th-anniversary-matchday-programme/

Thanks for sharing this!!

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #250 on: January 13, 2025, 08:42:58 PM »
Paid a tenner for it shipped to me in Canada. Delighted with that.

Offline MorrisNielson

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #251 on: January 14, 2025, 02:58:11 PM »
Isn't it 150 years to when we played our first game, give or take a few weeks? I think that's fair enough if there's dispute over when the cricket lads under the streetlight met and gave birth to us.

In the thread below, DW states that actually our first proper game was November 1875 (not Jan'75), so we are marking our 150th months before our first actual game.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=55180.0

That's a mistake. I should have said March.
Here is the St Mary’s game as reported in the Birmingham Morning News dated Tuesday 16/03/1875. The first Aston Unity games were stated 12/01/1875.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #252 on: January 14, 2025, 04:39:35 PM »
Ta.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #253 on: January 14, 2025, 04:53:08 PM »
€9 all-in to have it sent to Ireland. Not bad.

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Re: 150th Anniversary game
« Reply #254 on: January 15, 2025, 06:11:10 AM »
11GBP to have it sent to New Zealand. Bargain.

 


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