Monthly Archives: April 2024

Apr
21
2024

Young Bloods by Simon Scarrow

by Willenhall Lad

My Cousin Ross bought me this book but to be honest, having read about about Wellington and Napoleon for 30 odd years, it was a difficult book for me as it reads more like a film script, rather than an academic work. Some of it is based in facts but it’s annoyingly embellished with incidents […]

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Apr
21
2024

Walsall 2:3 Bradford City

by Willenhall Lad

A disappointing end to the season in the end as Walsall went down 2-3 after being two up. Quite a tense atmosphere as well in front of a big crowd that saw old striker Andy Cook return to score twice to see Saddlers chances of a playoff place disappear. Not quite the way I was […]

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Apr
17
2024

Walsall 2:1 Swindon Town

by Willenhall Lad

Finally, Mat Sadler got it. In desperation he put on four forwards and the result was a match winning 89th minute goal from Danny Johnson to earn Walsall a valuable win and go within 1 point of 7th place Crawley. A tense match was enlivened by The Nephew successfully completing the “Hit the Crossbar” competition […]

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Apr
15
2024

Walsall 1:3 Notts County

by Willenhall Lad

Walsall were mainly outplayed by Notts County in this match as the opposition were a very good side, probably the best I’ve seen up The Bescot for some time. This did quite a lot to dent Walsall’s hopes of the play-offs but other results meant that the damage was limited and they remain 3 points […]

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Apr
08
2024

Nearly Dan Simply Dan

by Willenhall Lad

Well this was a bit of a palaver. We were supposed to be seeing Nearly Dan on 22nd March but  the lead singer copped a throat infection so the gig got pushed back to this Sunday 7th April. However, he didn’t recover in time so it’s been pushed back again to the 4th August. Fair […]

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Apr
06
2024

Bilston Town 3:0 Chelmsley Town

by Willenhall Lad

An afternoon out with the Godson who wanted to see his local side saw us at Queen Street to see Bilston Town beat Chelmsley Town 3-0 in a match that didn’t mean much as Chelmsley were safe from relegation and Bilston 9th. Bilston overpowered an unenthusiastic Chelmsley and scored three easy goals all in the […]

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Apr
01
2024

Walsall 2:1 Salford City

by Willenhall Lad

Don’t think I have seen Salford City before but this was a hard, hard game against Karl Robinson’s (an ex-player for the Saddlers) team that bullied Walsall throughout but ended up losing through a Mo Faal goal that went through the goalies legs. Matt gave Walsall the lead early on with a bullet header from […]

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