E-I-E-I-E-I-O, up the football league we go!

[T_i_B]

Congratulations to Sheffield Wednesday for winning promotion to the Championship! :bounce:

Now we've won promotion
this is what we'll sing
WE ARE WEDNESDAY!
WE ARE WEDNESDAY!
Sturrock is our King!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/4580603.stm

Sheffield Wednesday secured promotion to the Championship as they overcame 10-man Hartlepool after extra-time.

Jon-Paul McGovern's six-yard strike put the Owls ahead before Eifion Williams equalised with a far-post shot.

Jon Daly headed home as Wednesday fell behind but Steve MacLean levelled from the spot after Chris Westwood was red-carded for a foul on Drew Talbot.

The Owls made the extra man count and Glenn Whelan drilled in from 18 yards while Talbot stroked in their fourth.

[Vladimir]

1. Nice one n/t

[T_i_B]

2. Congratulations also due...

to Southend United and West Ham United! :-)

[Vladimir]

3. Indeed, another few London derbies

for my lot next year... woohoo! :P

[RogueTrooper]

4. Told you T_I_B

Paul Sturrock would see you up the table.

[T_i_B]

5. Well I went to his first home League match...

...against MK Dons. It was a 1-1 draw against a team who looked like relegation fodder. That was why I was a bit pessemistic.

Anyway, the match the media will be focusing on next year will be the Sheffield Wednesday v Southampton match. Makes you wonder why on earth they sacked him in the first place.

[Pert_UK]

6. Good stuff! As a Baggies fan, I can relate to the joy!

:toast:

P.

[T_i_B]

7. Yes that was special

You weren't at the Hawthorns when the Baggies stayed up were you?

[Pert_UK]

9. Sadly, no.......was stuck somewhere else.....n/t

P.

[Michael_UK]

8. Argyle fan here - Sturrock's a great manager

It's a real shame he left us for Southampton.
Anyway, congrats for the Owls

[T_i_B]

10. Thanks Michael_UK

How's Hasney Ajofree been doing this season?

[bennywhale]

11. Shame the Poolies didn't go up for me. Great little club deserved it.

Sheff Wed have had their time in the upper divisions, should have given the Chimp Chokers their go.

[T_i_B]

12. We Wednesdayites have had more then our fair share of crap

It's about time things changed around here. We've had a decade of corporate mismanagement and failure before this season.

Anyway, we have Nottingham Forest as the League 1 meal ticket next year and I suspect Hartlepool will be back in the play-offs next year, although I personally would prefer to see Doncaster or even Southend in that position.

[bennywhale]

13. You've also had more glory than the likes of Hartlepool. A big club

who blew it is the way i view Wednesday. No offence, would have just prefered a smaller club up. Particularly because Hartlepool have never been up to the 2nd, 1st, championship, nationwide....whatever it is this year, and they elected a monkey as mayor

[D-Notice]

14. "Elected a monkey as mayor"

What do you expect from a place where the people are known as "Monkey-hangers"? ;-)

Personally, I'm happy Wednesday went up, as, unlike Hartlepool, they're not wannabe Geordies... ;-) Just annoyed that Preston blew it again (I'm not a North End fan, I'm Blackburn) - that's two less local derbies for us to have.

[bennywhale]

15. "Wannabe geordies"? Could you explain

that comment. Is it just because their from the North East? Or is it self projection from a wannabe Manc like yourself.

[D-Notice]

16. Yes to the 1st question...

No to the 2nd - Manchester's too far south! ;-)

My comment was a piss-take! It also applies to people from Middlesborough & Sunderland ;-)

It's like calling people from Coventry wannabe-Brummies, people from the Wirral wannabe-Scousers, or people from Essex wannabe-Cockneys!

PS. It's "they're", not "their", as you're using it in the abbrev form, not in the possessive. ;-)

[T_i_B]

17. And by the same token

you couild just as easily accuse Manchester of being "wannabe Lancashire"!

But then maybe that's just me being a cocky Yorkshireman.

[D-Notice]

18. True...

Just ask "older" people from M'cr & Salford they'll tell you it (still) is in Lancashire...

This leads to another question: why did they have to carve up Lancashire in the early 70s?

[T_i_B]

19. Ask Ted Heath

I think it was his government that decided to re-draw the county lines. What irkes me the most is the creation of Humberside. As a county it just does not work. Everyone North of the Humber wants to be in Yorkshire and everyone South of the Humber wants to be in Lincolnshire.

[D-Notice]

20. Didn't they go back

to having East Yorks a few years ago?

[bennywhale]

21. Yorkshire is a new county. Everyone North of the Humber have

traditionally been Northumbrian hence its name. Northumberland stretched from the Humber to the Forth. Yorkshire is a relatively modern county.

[T_i_B]

22. I hardly think that something that dates back to the Normans...

...can be described as New!

Mind you, it's not like Northumberia has been all that much use to anyone since the Monks left Lindisfarme! :evilgrin:

[bennywhale]

24. I prefixed with "relatively", but anyway Northumbria is still the oldest

county of England, and the first Angle kingdom. Yorkshire is a rather artificially drawn boundary, produced solely to give a Dukedom to a Norman aristocrat. Northumbria produced the first European scripture of Christianity while Yorkshire produced a bread like substance called a pudding. Northumbria built 50% of all European ships for a century while Yorkshire perfected their pudding. Northumbria powered the country with coal while Yorkshire were still digging the shaft and eating their pudding.

[T_i_B]

26. Nothing wrong with Yorkshire Pudding

as the below song amply demonstrates.

http://ingeb.org/songs/hiwaitre.html

Hi waitress, excuse me a minute, now listen,
I'm not finding fault, but here, Miss,
The 'taters' look gradely - the beef is a' reet,
But what kind of pudden is this?

It's what? - Yorkshire pudden! now coom coom coom coom,
It's what! Yorkshire pudden d'ye say!
It's pudden I'll grant you - it's some sort o' pudden,
But not Yorkshire pudden, nay nay!

The real Yorkshire pudden's a poem in batter,
To make one's an art, not a trade;
Now listen to me - for I'm going to tell thee
How t'first Yorkshire pudden wor made.

A young angel on furlough from Heaven
Came flying above Ilkley Moor,
And this angel, poor thing - got cramp in her wing
And coom down at auld woman's door.

The ould woman smiled and said 'Ee, it's an angel,
Well I am surprised to see thee.
I've not seen an angel before but thou'rt welcome,
I'll make thee a nice cup o' tea.'

The angel said 'Ee, thank you kindly, I will.'
Well she had two or three cups of tea,
Three or four Sally Lunns, and a couple of buns -
Angels eat very lightly, you see.

T'owd woman, looking at clock, said 'By Gum!
He's due home from mill is my Dan.
You get on wi' ye tea, but ye must excuse me,
I must make pudden now for t'owd man.'

Then the angel jumped up and said 'Gimme your bowl -
Flour and t'watter and eggs, salt and all,
And I'll show thee how we make puddens in Heaven,
For Peter and Thomas and Paul.'

Then t'owd woman gave her the things, and the angel
Just pushed back her wings and said 'Hush!'
Then she tenderly tickled the mixture wi' t'spoon
Like an artist would paint with his brush.

Aye, she mixed up that pudden with Heavenly magic,
She played with her spoon on that dough
Just like Paderewski would play the piano,
Or Kreisler, now deceased, would twiddle his bow.

And when it wor done and she put it in t'oven,
She said to t'owd woman 'Goodbye'.
Then she flew away, leaving the first Yorkshire pudden
That ever was made - and that's why

It melts in the mouth, like the snow in the sunshine,
As light as a maiden's first kiss;
As soft as the fluff on the breast of a dove,
Not elephant's leather, like this!

It's real Yorkshire pudden that makes Yorkshire lassies
So buxom and broad in the hips.
It's real Yorkshire pudden that makes Yorkshire cricketers
Win County championships.

It's real Yorkshire pudden that gives me my dreams
Of a real Paradise up above,
Where at the last trump I'll queue up for a lump
Of the real Yorkshire pudden I love!

And there on a cloud - far away from the crowd,
In a real Paradise, not a 'dud' 'un -
I'll do nowt for ever and ever and ever
But gollup up real Yorkshire pudden!

[bennywhale]

28. Lol. is that

what gets played in the pubs down your way of a Friday?

[T_i_B]

30. There's more where that came from!

I don't know about you but I love a good Stanley Holloway monologue! Here is The Lion and Albert, which I'm sure you've heard of.

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Albert_and_the_Lion.htm

There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
That's noted for fresh-air and fun,
And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.

A grand little lad was their Albert
All dressed in his best; quite a swell
'E'd a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle
The finest that Woolworth's could sell.

They didn't think much to the ocean
The waves, they was fiddlin' and small
There was no wrecks... nobody drownded
'Fact, nothing to laugh at, at all.

So, seeking for further amusement
They paid and went into the zoo
Where they'd lions and tigers and cam-els
And old ale and sandwiches too.

There were one great big lion called Wallace
His nose were all covered with scars
He lay in a som-no-lent posture
With the side of his face to the bars.

Now Albert had heard about lions
How they were ferocious and wild
And to see Wallace lying so peaceful
Well... it didn't seem right to the child.

So straight 'way the brave little feller
Not showing a morsel of fear
Took 'is stick with the'orse's 'ead 'andle
And pushed it in Wallace's ear!

You could see that the lion didn't like it
For giving a kind of a roll
He pulled Albert inside the cage with 'im
And swallowed the little lad... whole!

Then Pa, who had seen the occurrence
And didn't know what to do next
Said, "Mother! Yon lions 'et Albert"
And Mother said "Eeh, I am vexed!"

So Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Quite rightly, when all's said and done
Complained to the Animal Keeper
That the lion had eaten their son.

The keeper was quite nice about it
He said, "What a nasty mishap
Are you sure that it's your lad he's eaten?"
Pa said, "Am I sure? There's his cap!"

So the manager had to be sent for
He came and he said, "What's to do?"
Pa said, "Yon lion's 'eaten our Albert
And 'im in his Sunday clothes, too."

Then Mother said, "Right's right, young feller
I think it's a shame and a sin
For a lion to go and eat Albert
And after we've paid to come in!"

The manager wanted no trouble
He took out his purse right away
And said, "How much to settle the matter?"
And Pa said "What do you usually pay?"

But Mother had turned a bit awkward
When she thought where her Albert had gone
She said, "No! someone's got to be summonsed"
So that were decided upon.

Round they went to the Police Station
In front of a Magistrate chap
They told 'im what happened to Albert
And proved it by showing his cap.

The Magistrate gave his o-pinion
That no-one was really to blame
He said that he hoped the Ramsbottoms
Would have further sons to their name.

At that Mother got proper blazing
"And thank you, sir, kindly," said she
"What waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy lions? Not me!"

[bennywhale]

31. It gets better, here's a geordie one for you

I think some bloke nicked this one and turned it into something about going to Mandalay, but this is the original

"There's a bow legged knack kneed bus stop on tha road to Jarra' slack,
There's a social club that nestles in the toon,
And a teary eyed big barmaid is shedding salt tears in hor beer,
while the one armed bandit sadly gazes doon,

From sooth sheilds to Dorwenthaugh,
she's knaan for bein' rough,
and the concort chairman fancies hor as well,

Now they caal hor crafty Lil,
Cos she fiddles with the Till,................

(The rest will follow soon, doing it from memory and blanked, watch this space)

[D-Notice]

29. Shouldn't that be

"Tha' nowt wrong..."? ;-)

[Oggy]

23. Congrats

Looking forward to the games against you already ( Stoke Fan ).

[T_i_B]

25. Thanks, Stoke City are a good team.

How's Kenwyne Jones been for you BTW? He was simply superb for us, scoring a goal a game! I for one would love to see us get Kenwyne on a permanent basis.

[Oggy]

27. He did well

Although he only got 3 goals in 13 games, he definately improved our overall play. This said I haven't seen Stoke live since my Daughter was born, so this conclusion is mainly from match reports.