TO quote the late John Belushi in the film Animal House "It ain't over till we say it's over", which might have applied to Micky Adams half-time talk on Tuesday night.
At 2-0 down at the break to high-flying Leicester City, the Albion looked down and out, yet managed to produce one of the greatest comebacks in the club's recent history to win 3-2.
A truly memorable night, none more so for local lad and Albion re
serve keeper John Sullivan, who finally got his chance in the first team with Michel Kuipers injured.
Although "one swallow does not a summer make', let's hope this win, the first League home win of the season, will kick start the season, starting with another three points, and a healthy crowd, this Saturday against Millwall. One thing is for sure: there are still too many empty seats.
- Down the years, sport has been littered with stars who have fallen on hard times because they didn't have necessarily the right people handling their finances.
Just the other week there was speculation that Paul Gascoigne, who had in previous years appeared on the Sporting Rich List with an estimated fortune of £21million, was facing the prospect of being declared bankrupt.
Not everything is black and white. I can recall a well-known boxer, a person who most people reading this will instantly recognise, who several years ago was reportedly being paid £1million for one fight.
Now out of that you can immediately take 40 per cent tax, then you have his promoter/manager who was on 20 per cent, and his training camp and entourage accounted for 10 per cent. So from £1million he's down to £300,000.
For the record, he later went bankrupt after the Inland Revenue foreclosed on him for unpaid income tax.
- Last week I was invited by local solicitors Thomas Eggar to a function in London to mark the launch of their sports division, which has been created ostensibly to represent and advise sporting figures in all things business and financial, and specifically, and perhaps quite significantly, income tax matters.
Former Albion favourite Peter Smith, now a football agent himself, was also at the event, and he felt that the new venture would certainly be an advantage to young up and coming sportsmen, so I wish everybody involved in the project every success.
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