Which bit is not true then Viler.
You seem to have come back on here again since the nervous time with two games to go, shame you never finished 19th, you lot seemed to want that all season.
I have never heard the phrase/song "Pride of the Midlands" until eighteen months ago. You will have to provide me with your definition. Even when the Noses finished above us in 2003, I'd never heard It. It obviously doesn't mean winning trophies or doing anything worthwhile in the league. Midlands football is fairly limp at the moment and has been for a few years. I suppose what it really means, above being a mid-table side and record finishes since football was invented in 92, is finishing above the Villa.
But then that has always been the difference between you and the Noses; hence the cognomen "Bitter Baggie" or "Bitter Bird" that we often use to describe you. The Noses hate us with a passion and we feel the same, while so do the majority of your lot, yet there is a really bitterness to it as if we have snatched something from you. Perhaps that all this brief Pride of the Midlands malarkqy has come from? Jumping on the gratification of finishing above us (as you should, we've been a shambles for three years) however fleeting. Which is another reason to be bitter I guess.
You all hate us; from West Brom to Leicester to Coventry to the Noses. But its only the later that gets our ire and that hurts you too.
I quite like you myself. I have plenty of Albion friends, been to plenty of games (was it Bob Taylor getting on the end of an Andy Hunt cross at the Sty for a last minute win?) and that lack of hate makes you bitter as well.
I am not going to take the Noses comment seriously. I cannot believe even the biggest Titlon Road chimp would believe that.