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Albion's youngsters, including Len Cantello, face defeat in the 1969 FA Youth Cup at Roker Park.

With another two-week break over, we again have the opportunity to push past the 40 point mark at Sunderland on Saturday; and again, there's a chance we'll exhibit all the dithering doziness we've been prone to against sides below us in the table. However, with the club laying on forty coaches to Wearside for the match, aficionados of our free travel awaydays down the years will rightly point out that the form book tends to go right out of the window for such games in favour of an astonishing Albion win ratio. While nothing is guaranteed, especially against a team in the drop zone and fighting for survival on the wrong side of Easter, there's perhaps reason to hope that we may not go down the road of settling for frustrating the opposition and everyone else who has the misfortune to be watching.

A good run of form could still see us move nicely up the table between now and May, so fingers crossed. We've got a win record to maintain.