Albion's title bid blackout.Byline: By Steve Johnson Steve Johnson is the name of:
WEST Bromwich West Bromwich (brŭm`ĭj, –ĭch, brŏm`wĭch), city (1991 pop. 146,386), Sandwell metropolitan district, W central England. Albion fans hoping the club would beam back their final match of the season to The Hawthorns on Sunday have had their hopes dashed. Thousands of fans of the Baggies, who clinched promotion to the Premiership on Monday, have been frozen out of the climax to the season at Queens Park Rangers. They were hoping to persuade the club to arrange to show the match in London, which could see West Brom clinch the Championship, on screen at The Hawthorns. But Albion said in a statement today that it would not be possible. A club spokesman said today: "The club will not be able to stage a beamback of Sunday's game 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) . "We completely sold our 2,800 ticket allocation for this game two weeks ago and, since Monday's result, have been mindful of the demand to watch this game. "However, after talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to the relevant authorities for the past two days, a beam-back will not be possible due to insurmountable technical and logistical issues. "Since there is no other live coverage of the match, the club would need to arrange for a satellite truck to be at QPR to beam the game back to The Hawthorns. "The local authority will not allow us to look into this at such a late stage as it would raise a number of safety and traffic management issues." Lifelong Albion fan Steve Nash, who had spearheaded a campaign to get the Albion to beam back the big game, said today he was very disappointed. "It is a shame because there are thousands of fans clamouring to see the game, but I accept there are good reasons why it cannot happen." |
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