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Friday 19th September 2008, 10:00AM BST.
What is the real derby from the Albion fans point of view: Baggies v Wolves or Baggies v Villa? Post your comments below.
Today’s question was submitted by Smethwick End.
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wba v vile, at least they will give us a game and sell there allocation,aye boing boing donk
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ALBION V VILLA !
Dingles are small fry.
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Dingles V Steptoes everytime.
Just ask TerryAAARRROOOLDDDbaggie he’ll tell ya.
How’s Hercules?
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TERRYONEWINBOGGIE They will give you a game alright they will thrash you tesco,s you won,t know whats hit you COME ON THE VILLA
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and at least they will spank you 4-0.
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what a stupid question it depends on who you support. You cant ask a fan to pick a better local derby over the one who their team is involved with.
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It has to be s?ite v villa, they are both brummie teams!!
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1. well what a no brain post that is from terrysteptoe, Wolves have always sold their tickets for the poorthorns, even when you used to give us the smethick end we’d sell the 5,000 tickets, you steptoes however have always struggled to sell your entire allocation at Molineux as most of you are too scared to come, and as for giving you an easy game I don’t think so. Wolves v steptoes is the biggest derby however seeing as your a brumie club I can see why you think that Villa would be your derby, but in truth Villa hate Blues and vice versa so they ain’t really bothered about a small club in sandwell Fact
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Wolves v Blues at least the stadium won’t smell this year. just couldn’t get rid of the smell of muck last year.
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26,000 at home against west ham, hmmmm not quite a sell out is it?
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Wolves v Walsall – Its the only chance the Dingles have of winning a Derby!
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7,scared of what exactly?
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7. Wulfs”clever prat”1877. I see you have ended your post with FACT so it must be true.
As for always struggling to sell our allocation for the custard bowl have you forgotten the pie & a pint fiasco?.
Oh, and by the way, we are a small PREMIERSHIP club in Sandwell not a small chumpionship side in the tattiest city in the country!.
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7.Dingle1877
Calm down son and bow before your superior premiership neighbours.
It’s nice for you to think so highly of us as you remark that we are YOUR biggest derby.
Unfortunately you are not OUR biggest derby.
Now off you pop to the fizzy pop league and stop standing in our shadow….
I will really miss embarrassing you lot this year….
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I don’t really care anymore. I’m sick and tired of all this “us and them”, “my dad is bigger than yours” rubbish between Wolves and WBA, and I think the E&S should stop stoking it. At present we’re in different divisions so its completely pointless.
As I’m currently working overseas I read the articles on this web site to try and stay in touch with how the Wolves are doing, but lately its all the same stuff. Which club is better? Whose fans are the best, and how many seats were empty at the last game!! Some of the people posting on here should just grow up.
To be honest some of the drivel placed on here about this subject is more akin to the school playground. Lets just chat about the football and stop with this sort of rubbish.
Peoples opinions vary, get used to it.
One question though, where is Happy Baggie? He had a lot to say last season on virtually every Wolves story but so far there has been nothing.
As for Terry above, I see your grammer has not improved. Quick lesson for you, “there” should read “their”, not too difficult is it, or should “too” be “to” or “two”. Go find out.
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West Bromwich is in Sandewell and not Brum and Sandwell is in the Black Country so it has to be Wolves and for those of you who say Wolverhampton is not in the Black Country read your history, parts of Willenhall, Wednesfield and Bilston are in Wolverhampton and were known as the Black Country. The current league derby would be Vile but not the main one.
The historic boundaries of Staffordshire cover much of what is now the metropolitan county of West Midlands. An administrative county of Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 covering the county except the county boroughs of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black Country),
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wilf1877lasttimewewunsummet,you cudent sell your tickets for play off semi final at home cud ya,and i always go to moll i like the peace n quite, yes fans with young kids are scared to go there cuz of all the morons you have,proud of um are ya,and your local derby is telford aye boing boing donk sshhhhhhhhhh
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The historic boundaries of Staffordshire cover much of what is now the metropolitan county of West Midlands. An administrative county of Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 covering the county except the county boroughs of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black Country),
So there is your answer it has to be Wolves as the vile is just a midlands derby
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I have to agree with Wolves 1877. There just isn’t the rivalry between us and Villa, Blues and (some also include) Coventry as there is between us and Wolves. I don’t include Walsall as a lot of baggie fans see Walsall as our second club and the games between us as a “friendly”.
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The historic boundaries of Staffordshire cover much of what is now the metropolitan county of West Midlands. An administrative county of Staffordshire was set up in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 covering the county except the county boroughs of Wolverhampton, Walsall, and West Bromwich in the south (the area known as the Black Country)
So it has to be wolves the vila is just a midlands derby
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Being a Brummie, I put the Vile, Tesco and Blues derby all on a par. Wolves, as the Midlands club everyone hates – voted 4th most hated and proud of it – can also through Stoke in the pot!
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Gootta be thee Staffordshire derby…..Dingles V Clayheads
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terryWEAINTGONNAWINMANYTHISSEASONboggie – yeah enjoy the Villa game! They will give you a good spanking. aye plink plink fizz! oh yes and please use the right instance of thier please! Don’t they have schools in Sandwell Town?
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No 8 that totally true lol
all of them stained baggies in the bull stand really took its toll my friend…
outofdarknesscomethlight…
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I was brought up to hate the Villa, so this has always been the game for me. I have plenty of Wolves-supporting friends and contrary to what you might think after reading these pages, they’re all good blokes and much the same as us. Villa fans, on the other hand, are all pubescent chipmunks. So it will be good to see our boys do the business on Sunday.
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i reckon it depends on ya age,,if youve been watching football for 30-40 yrs you will pick wba v villa…if your a younger supporter they will probably pick wba v dinglets…i will go for west brom v villa cos i remember the good old days,,,MOWBRAYS DUTCHIE BOYS TO SPANK THE VILE,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOH YES..
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AND WBA AND VILLA ARE BIGGER CLUBS WITH MORE PASSIONATE FANS THAN THE CRAPPY DINGLETS……..WE R PREMIER LEAGUE WE R PREMIER LEAGUE……MOWBRAYS DUTCHIE BOYS SPANK THE VILLA,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES..
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when lwas younger it used to be villa now its deffo the wolves, you can feel the electricity in the air when ever we meet, you cant beat the BCD
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Before any smart alec boggie comments on my previous post – I admit I spelt ‘their’ wrong. I was to busy laughing at terryNOWINboggie and it is Friday!
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18, why does west brum have a birmingham post code it starts with A big CAPITAL B. boundary facts?
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Nick Wolf said please use the right instance of thier please! Is THIER a good old black country word? Has to be the Villa game because when i was at school(mid 80′s)you couldn’t find a Wolves fan to have a rivalry with !!!
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16 …. did you do History at school today?
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that pic above shows a foul on bedner he shud av bin sent off dirty dingle,aye boing boing donk sshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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terryEASYWINbaggie is on here as well…lol
Such a loser
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Come on VILLA.
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Actually it depends what era you were brought up in. The older fans will always say Villa’s the derby but the younger ones will say Wolves.
Wolves 1877
It’s the same with Villa, the older ones would choose Albion, the younger Blues.
Although I remember a national poll not too long ago that said the biggest derby (most passion etc.) is Albion Wolves. Bobby Robson also said that Albion Wolves was as big as Rangers Celtic, Man U Liverpool etc etc.
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Yes there are schools in Sandwell , but they are sadly lacking in teaching such upper class phrases as plink plink fizz ! No.23 you really are a highly educated pillock .
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wednesbury1, so does Rowley,Old Hill,Cradley Heath etc etc,What’s your point?
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If the other baggies fans that haven’t got a job want to make some muney. There’s good odds going for wolves to go up and baggies down worth sticking a £10 on, easy muney! Hmmm any1 got £10 to lend me??
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As an aside, The way the post code system was set up meant that the primary sorting office for the local area was either Birmingham or Dudley. I believe they followed the telephone area which put West Bromwich in the Birmingham Telephone Area, along with Oldbury and Blackheath. They got a B as a post code since all mail for the area was first sent to the Sorting Office in Birmingham for resorting and onward distribution.
Hope that helps
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Thanks Medway – You may need to draw a picture in Crayon, so the Dingles can understand it.
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32. vespawolf said 16 …. did you do History at school today?
No vespawolf he just bores for England. He even had to repeat himself.
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For me the real derby is against the dingles, I can’t stand them. The game against the villa I don’t want to lose like any game but I hate the dingles a whole lot more
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The Hoff said: Sep 19th, 2008 at 11:09 am 7.Dingle1877
Calm down son and bow before your superior premiership neighbours.
It’s nice for you to think so highly of us as you remark that we are YOUR biggest derby.
Unfortunately you are not OUR biggest derby.
Now off you pop to the fizzy pop league and stop standing in our shadow….
I will really miss embarrassing you lot this year….
Steptoe hoff don’t flatter yourself with delusion, a prem club you may be but next season you’ll be in the fizzy pop league and remember this steptoe what goes around comes around, Idiot.
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13.sheepsteptoethickprat. You are a small club you’re dead right there and at least we’re a City not a dump of a town that has been voted proper tatty, so be a good little boy and jog on.
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Back in the day(80′S) when the Dingles were a small fry 4th division team who had to rely on us selling them a saviour, Albion V Vile was by far the biggest Derby as it was always played at the Highest level.
But due to our own under achievemnt as a club over the last 20 years and the fact that the Dingles will always be a second tier team, recently the Dingle Derby has been the biggest as its the one we have played more often.
Personally for me There’s nothing better than going in to work Monday morning and rubbing the Dingles noses in the CR4P that is their football team.
Come on the Preston this weekend.
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46. Ha Ha you talk some carp, jog on you steptoe mug
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These are the local derbies….
The birmingham derby is……villa v blues
The big midlands derby is……wolves v villa
The black country derby is…wolves v albion
The rest are just games with added interest due to locality…ie villa v albion
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