Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Remember the 1106

Tonight, my home-town team will decide for me, in a randomish manner, where I am going for FA Cup action this coming Saturday.  West Brom are at home to Hull City in the League Cup.  I have linked twelve possible scoring outcomes to the twelve ties at “unvisited” grounds that I am choosing from tonight.

It is not random in the mathematically strict sense because all twelve outcomes are not equally likely, but I have no control over what happens.  The Cup ties are in the order that the balls came out of the FA’s velvet bag in the draw, the last scorer outcomes (except for first and last) are in order of shirt number.

It’s randomish enough, and will keep my interest in a League Cup match going to the end, which with West Brom has been hard enough in recent years, as shown from my one and only WBA blogpost.

#Rememberthe1106


Anyway, here we go … it is the LAST person to score for WBA tonight either in regular time, extra-time or in a penalty shootout who decides.  Hull goals don’t count.

EDIT: own-goals by any Hull player don't count either (not yet happened at time of edit).


HOME
v
AWAY
Last WBA Scorer
7
Warrington Town
v
Sheffield
EITHER None whatsoever OR one of the goalkeepers
8
Shildon
v
Stalybridge Celtic
3 Jonas Olsson
14
Ashton United
v
Salford City
5 Claudio Yacob
15
Chorley
v
Glossop North End
9 Brown Ideye
17
Cleethorpes Town
v
North Ferriby United
10 Victor Anichebe
19
Norton United
v
Spalding United
14 Jason Davidson
22
Ellistown & Ibstock United
v
Halesowen Town
16 Cristian Gamboa
67
Winchester City
v
Newport (IoW)
20 Liam O'Neil
69
Folland Sports
v
Frome Town
21 Youssuf Mulumbu
74
Blackfield & Langley
v
Willand Rovers
23 Gareth McAuley
75
Abingdon United
v
Dorchester Town
28 Sebastian Blanco
76
Shortwood United
v
Oxford City
Any substitute


UPDATE:
Here's what happened.  The initial position of Warrington Town v Sheffield was blown away after 15 minutes by Brown Ideye's first Albion goal, and for most of the evening it looked as if I would be at Chorley v Glossop North End.  Cleethorpes Town's chances evaporated as Victor Anichebe was subbed.  Hull City had by this time taken an irrelevant 2-1 lead.  Then, drama, as for a minute, and only a minute, Gareth McAuley tried to send me to Blackfield and Langley with a volleyed equaliser before sub Saido Berahino scored a late, late winner for the Baggies - and so it is Shortwood United v Oxford City for me on Saturday.  Gloucestershire, a county for which I have some ancestral connections.  Great stuff, and thank you as ever for your interest and good humour.

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