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Blazing Saddlers

23 Thursday Feb 2023

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Bescot Stadium, FA Cup, Football, groundhopping, James Maddison, Kerechi Iheanacho, League 2, Leicester City, Saddlers, Walsall, Youri Tielemans

Saturday 28th January 2023 ko 12:30

FA Cup 4th Round

WALSALL 0

LEICESTER CITY 1 (Iheanacho 68)

Tielemans missed penalty 48

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Programme £4

It certainly wasn’t the plan to have the next instalment of Robyn’s completion of the 92 EFL and Premier League clubs to be at a club who would regard our previous visit as their great rivals. Walsall fans regard Wolverhampton Wanderers as public enemy number 1, referring to them as “The Dingles” a comment on the “Emmerdale” family- the archetypal neighbours from hell! Continue reading →

Our Former Self

06 Thursday Feb 2020

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1874, Bentley Pavilion, City Ground, Darlaston Town, Football, groundhopping, League, Paycare Ground, Walsall, West Midlands

Tuesday 12th November 2019 ko 19.45

West Midlands (Regional) League- Premier Division

DARLASTON TOWN (1874) FC 0

WOLVERHAMPTON CASUALS 0

K Miller sent off 49 (2nd Booking)

Att 110

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Back in the day I used to use the M6 as a kind of a footballing acid test. I’d ask the question,

“If you drive along the M6 around Birmingham heading north after Spaghetti Junction which club do you think of?”

I suspect many would say Aston Villa and Walsall whose grounds are both clearly visible from the motorway/ traffic jam, but I reckoned any groundhopper worth his salt would have said Darlaston Town. Continue reading →

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