The Bear

Goddammit. Defending so so poor and threw that away after fighting so hard to get back on terms.

Yep. Soft as anything but about time we had one like that. Game over again any way.

Our left side is all over the place defensively. We're playing alright going forward but crap at the back. For those wondering why I'm not there tonight, I was going to go but tickets were either £54 or £63. Robbing bastards.

Rashford scores against us every season without fail, and was set up perfectly for him to score with the nonsense going on around him. At least I had a tenner on him scoring first.

You get them everywhere. At Wolves I call them the "gerrit forwards!!" brigade. Of course of a ball is played forwards and you lose it they moan. I used to sit near an absolute nob that when the ball came anywhere near the touchline around the half way line he'd scream "switch it!!!.... switch it!!!" over and over even if there was no option or even time for it. He could see a player on the opposite side of the pitch with plenty of room and obviously thought that the ball just instantly travels over there without the opposition ever moving. Moron.

Ugh. It's a balmy 3°C here. Frigging freezing.

NFL style. Not sure it will work but I'm open to anything that helps.

Traffic lights at crossroads/junctions who automatically all turn red when there's no traffic. I can be approaching from a distance only for the lights in front of me to go from green to red before I get to them. So I pull up, expecting traffic to come from the other direction but no.... 10s later they turn green again. Winds me up no end. Just leave the lights on the main busier road on green unless there's cars pulled up waiting the other way. Makes me wonder which pen pushing idiot comes up with these systems?

Oh and this pic of a WBA fan who managed to get onto the pitch is going to be used by Wolves fans for years to come State of him FFS. I wonder if his name is Jason....

OK time for some facts about what happened. The trouble was at the opposite end of the ground to the Wolves fans. One or two were sat in there and then couldn't control themselves when we went two nil up. They were ejected by stewards and police, but not before they had home fans trying to get at them as they were led out. That led to home fans from other areas of the ground running round the stadium to try and get at them. They started fighting the police which is why that bloke had blood running down his head as he was led away. Add to the fact they were throwing bottles and objects at our players, into the away end, and eventually at the police too, and they will get royally screwed by the FA even if they can identify those who got onto the pitch and were fighting the police. If the FA even try and blame Wolves fans or fine the club then it will be a complete shambles. It was WBAs ticketing policy at fault. They had to give us a whole end due to the FA Cup 15% rule, just as we had to give them the whole end when they played in the cup at our place back in 2007. But there was plenty of segregation in place in any case. That would have been mandated by the West Midlands Police. Who btw have been notorious over the years for heavy handed policing in BCDs. Yep. The major cause of the bad trouble was the fact it was the first time we have played them at The Hawthorns with fans allowed since 2011. Their younger thugs have literally been waiting their whole lives for us to play them. It's no wonder it was so bad once it all kicked off and they were trying to get at the Wolves fans in their section. The main reason Wolves fans got their hands on tickets is the stupid policy of allowing STHs to purchase an extra ticket with no checks on who was going to be using it. This is wrong. New memberships were closed off for this game once the draw came out. Even WBA aren't stupid enough to allow anyone and their dog to be able to get tickets for this game by just buying a membership at the same time. The real problem was that stupid +1 policy mentioned above. STHs either sold their extra tickets on to the highest bidder or let mates who were Wolves fans have them. They'll also be in trouble if the club can trace back to the seat where the Wolves fans were sat.

Ex Love Island and deaf cochlea implant mentor, Tasha Ghouri, is on Countdown this week in dictionary corner. Absolutely gorgeous.

Finally got round to watching the first episode of Gen V. Absolutely zero interest in any of the characters. And the two who I had a mild interest in got killed off straight away. Can't be arsed with it. My mate told me there's no real crossover for The Boys so I'll leave it.

You need to be sixth form/university age IMO, be into music or play an instrument/in a band.

Shite draw for Maidstone.

Apparently an Albion fan on the radio saying it was just that one Wolves fan who jumped up in their end that kicked it all off. Their fans were running across from other stands to fight the police, and were throwing bottles at our players on corners before that.

Got to squeeze a load of adverts in and a 2 min silence for Jurgen.

Agreed. I've been in a few home stands over the years, most recently Everton last season when we got a late winner. Had to stand when they scored earlier in the game and sit on my hands watching our fans going mental for the winner.

5th round draw now at HT so ITV can squeeze some Klopp coverage in.

I'd pay to see Roy give Dixon a dig on the nose.

In midweek WBA were letting ST holders buy an extra ticket, which has 100% caused this. Means their fans could sell their extra ticket to someone with no purchase history.

Harks back to when they got given our home end in the cup and they left Tesco carrier bags on all the seats - We used to call them Tescos because of their strip.

Live in the West Brom area, know Baggies fans, etc. Shame as it was shaping up to be a perfect end. Some idiots just can't control themselves unfortunately.

Don't be daft they'd be delighted with any Premier League club in the next round. Of course they'd choose a top 6 club if possible purely to maximise revenue.

Made up for Big George. One of the nicest blokes you'll ever see. Hope we can beat the Baggies tomorrow and get Maidstone in the next round. That'd be awesome for both clubs.