Following their Play Off Semi Final success against Notts County, Walsall faced Bristol City in the Final. The away leg was at Ashton Gate on May 25th. The Saddlers produced a tremendous team effort to record a fully-deserved 3-1 win on the night to give themselves an excellent chance of gaining promotion to the Second Division. Continue reading
Steve Jones set for another crack at Europa League Football
Airbus UK Broughton have made former Crewe Alexandra, Burnley, Walsall and Motherwell winger Steve Jones their first summer signing. Continue reading
Malaga friendly was good preparation for Deeney
Former Walsall forward Troy Deeney had defended Watford’s friendly with Malaga ahead of the Championship play-off final. Continue reading
Jimmy to stay on as Posh coach
Jimmy Walker has agreed a new deal to stay on as Peterborough United’s Goalkeeping Coach. Continue reading
First released Saddler close to agreeing deal elsewhere
Jake Jones looks set to become the first released Saddler to get himself fixed up with a club for next season. Continue reading
Jabo cleans up at Colchester Awards evening
Former Saddlers striker Jabo Ibehre took the night’s big award at Colchester United’s End of Season Awards Dinner on Tuesday night. Continue reading
Richards and Wright on Shrews departure list
Shrewsbury Graham Turner has released two former Walsall players in his end of season squad re-shuffle. Continue reading
Roger Boli’s Greatest Walsall Goal
At Walsall’s End of Season Awards dinner on Sunday night, to mark the club’s 125 year anniversary there was a special award on the evening for the Greatest Goal.
No Saddler representation in League One Team of the 2012/13 Season
Walsall players will be disappointed that not one of our stars have been named in the PFA League One Team of the Season. Voted for by their fellow pro’s there was no mention of a side who have stormed up the League One table leaving behind a relegation battle in December to just missing out on the play-offs in late April. Continue reading
2012/13 End of Season Award night winners
At Sunday evening’s end of season awards dinner, it was Northern Ireland international Will Grigg who walked away with the biggest gongs of the night. Continue reading
Dramatic Last Day Of The Season Games
Walsall Web Fans looks back at four last games of the season which were full of drama and had an impact on our future years. The most heartbreaking must surely be the sequence of events against Charlton Athletic in the 1962-3 season. Walsall needed to avoid defeat to stay in the Second Division. The opening half was scoreless with Saddlers looking comfortable enough. At half time the heavens opened and the torrential rain was so bad that the game had to be abandoned to the disappointment of the 18,820 fans at a very soggy Fellows Park who could believe what they had just witnessed when seemingly half way to safety.
Memory Lane – Walsall’s centenary game Vs Manchester United
Walsall Web Fans looks back to a special Centenary Year Celebration Game between Walsall and Manchester United which took place on April 22nd,1988, as part of the club’s year of special events to acknowledge this milestone. Alex Ferguson was just 18 months into his long Old Trafford career in the hot seat and fielded quite a powerful line up of international players to represent his club for this prestigious frendly game including Bryan Robson, Steve Bruce, Paul Mc Grath, Gordon Strachen and Norman Whiteside. Walsall’s team was also virtually full strength and was an opportunity for their own international striker David Kelly to show what he could do against quality defenders. Continue reading
Nottingham Forest headline 2013 Pre-Season schedule
Walsall have announced the first pre-season fixtures for the summer. Continue reading
Deano urges Brandy to make his own decision not listen to representatives over the summer
Walsall manager Dean Smith has issued Fabian Brandy with some sound advice ahead of his contract expiry at Walsall over the summer. Continue reading
Memory Lane – Bill ‘Chopper’ Guttridge
Walsall Web Fans looks back on the life and times of one of The Saddlers most colourful players, Bill ‘Chopper’ Guttridge, who starred in the Walsall team who went from the old Fourth Division to the Second Division under Bill Moore. Continue reading
1987-88 Promotion Season Recalled (Part 10 – April and May)
The all-important month of April had a funny look to it on the fixture list. There were games on the 2nd, 5th and 9th of the month – but not another one until the 30th due to fixture changes and the Football League’s centenary celebrations which gave an unbalanced feel about April. To help fill the gap a bit, Saddlers did arrange a friendly against Manchester United on the 22nd at Fellows Park as part of the club’s own centenary celebrations. Continue reading
Former Walsall loanee clean sweeps at Awards Evening
Former loanee Saddler Kevin Betsy cleaned up at Woking’s end of season awards night on Saturday. Continue reading
Bury fighting for survival
Bury go into the weekend’s fixtures needing to avoid defeat to Oldham to keep their League One status for another week, however despite the relegation trap door edging nearer, the club have much more worrying concerns in that they must fight to ensure they will still be in existence for another season. Continue reading
1987-88 Promotion Season Recalled (Part 9 – March)
Walsall kicked off the month of March with a hard-fought 2-1 Tuesday night home win against Bury in which The Saddlers had to comeback from being a goal down early in the game. David Lee had fired The Shakers into the lead with a stunning 25 yard strike which gave home keeper Fred Barber no chance. This was Bury’s first shot of the game and with David Kelly out injured, manager Tommy Coakley pushed Richard O’Kelly into his striking role. Walsall didn’t let the early goal unsettle them and were back in the game on 29 minutes when when, following a tremendous run and cross from Willie Naughton, midfielder Paul Jones struck home his 12th goal of the season. O’Kelly worked tirelessly throughout and provided the winner with a sweet flick for Craig Shakespeare to latch on to for his 9th goal of the season to complete a good comeback. Continue reading
Memory Lane – Bob Wesson
Walsall Web Fans looks back at the career of popular goal keeper Bob Wesson, who served both Walsall and Coventry City well over a 15 year career. Starting out at Thornaby Boys Brigade, he became an amateur with Middlesborough before signing for Coventry City in late 1958. Continue reading