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By Grapefruits

Ohh Warry Warry Warry Warry Warrington

Took a bus ride to drop off my priority Cup Final booking form on the chance Warrington beat Hull in the semi final, was hoping to pick my semi final tickets up as well (bought on line) but 48 hrs to process order Doh! will pick them up before Sundays match.
Todays blip is the Brian Bevan Wall at the side of the turnstilles me, dearest and daughter enter the ground on match days.
This wall was built at Warrington Wolves stadium in 2004, and was a tribute to their finest player ever, Brian Bevan. The wall was created using glazed bricks in the clubs colours blue and yellow, with contrasting yellow and blue lettering, the wall contains the names and messages of around 1000 fans.
As the stadiumn was being built fans had the chance to have their name on the new stadium, the bricks ewere engraved and then built into a wall to display the face of Warrington's greatest legend Brian Bevan. Each brick could have up to two lines of lettering and a maximum of fourteen characters per line and they were blue or yellow glazed or as we like to say "primrose & blue".

Brian Bevan (1924-1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. He scored a world record 796 tries, 740 of them for us during his time playing for the Wires.

When the ground was expanded recently another commerative wall was built further toward the Wolfware shop although not as impressive as this one it still lokks good - me? no I didn't but a brick rather save my money for the match's not covered by my season tickets prime example in a couple of weeks a trip to Huddesfield to watch the semi final oh so close to Wembley again we can almost smell it but as always still a tough game to win

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