'Brilliant' fans spurred us to the title, says Brunt; CHAMPIONS.CHRIS Brunt Christopher "Chris" Brunt (born December 14, 1984 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish footballer, currently playing for West Bromwich Albion. Career He grew up in Belfast, where he attended secondary school at Wellington College. hailed the support Albion received from their 2,800 travelling fans at Loftus Road Loftus Road is a spacious football stadium in London, W12. It is home to the English football team Queens Park Rangers and has a capacity of 19,148. History The stadium was first used by Shepherd's Bush F.C. as they celebrated lifting the Championship trophy. After a thrilling final day Albion won the division by two points from Stoke City and were presented with the famous old trophy in front of the delirious de·lir·i·ous adj. Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium. travelling support. "The fans were brilliant. It is hard to describe. It is what we have been playing for all season and what we have worked hard for," he said. "It's a massive relief to get there on one hand but on another it is a massive achievement and it is fantastic for everybody. I'm absolutely delighted." Brunt says there can be no qualms that Albion thoroughly deserved their title, having consistently played the best football in the division. "We have played really well through most of the season and we got our rewards in the end. "We cracked a couple of times a couple of months ago and a few people said we had gone. But credit to all the staff and the boys, we dug right in and got ourselves back on track. "Being called the best team in the division all season was a hard tag An electronic identification or security device that is adhered to merchandise and shipping cartons. Hard tags contain metal strips or electronic circuits encased in a plastic housing. See RFID tag, RFID and EAS. See also hard token. to have. Teams want to beat you every week. A lot of teams raised their game against us but we did absolutely brilliantly in the last few weeks to get ourselves the title. "The wins at Wolves and Norwich stick out as great performances along the way. They were turning points. A few teams maybe expected us to drop points. "Strength of character and quality of squad saw us through. "A lot of boys in that dressing room and on the pitch at QPR QPR Queens Park Rangers (football club) QPR Quarterly Progress Report QPR Quadrature Partial Response QPR Quarterly Performance Review QPR Question, Persuade, Refer (suicide prevention program) had not featured too much this season, but they are all important because everyone in the team knew that if they didn't perform there were boys waiting to step in. "That's a good thing to have and it is something we will definitely need next season. "Hopefully we will do ourselves justice. Looking at the Portsmouth game we didn't look out of place at all. "We matched a team in seventh place in the Premier League and that's the target to aim for. If we can achieve something like that it would be absolutely great." |
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