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Who buys a programme these days? What do you get apart from player profiles, match reports, and the usual what's on?
I used to collect every prog Home and Away (average 25-30 per season) for about 15 years. I'd cross out and write any team changes, and write marks out of 10 for the Albion players. And they all got filed away methodically in an old suitcase.
I stopped going for a few years in Don Howe's 3rd season as Manager, to play Saturdays, and have hardly bought one since, but I do vaguely remember that the first ones (1958) were 3d or 4d (?) What are they now? £3?
Soon after I left Home to get married, my Old Man said: "Do you still want that old suitcase in the loft?"...."Nah. Tek it to the Tip!" How I regret that now! Not only would I read them all about once a year, but I'd willingly give them all to a good home. (I'd be delighted if some bloke at the Tip had spotted them all those years ago).
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I still have a fair few of mine with the half-time scores and subs added in religiously. You used to get a football league supplement inside as well but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. Anyone?
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I love reading through my old programmes. Had a running joke a couple of years ago of scanning some of the old pictures from early Nineties ones and showing them to Kevin Donovan and Daryl Burgess on Twitter; all the old haircuts, mad ties, shellsuits and whatnot. They always had a great laugh about it, gave each other a ribbing, etc. Programmes are a real window into football past.
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talkSAFT said ..............
I stopped going for a few years in Don Howe's 3rd season as Manager, to play Saturdays, and have hardly bought one since, but I do vaguely remember that the first ones (1958) were 3d or 4d
Blimey way ahead of time eh ?
I have just only had a 3d T.V 
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I've got hundreds of programmes going back to the Fifties and, as Ska'd says, they're a real window into history and a damn good read. When I lived in Wood Green Road in Wednesbury, when Albion were playing away I'd walk to Fellows Park and watch Walsall, who had a really good programme shop in a big hut behind one end. I spent hours in there poring through programmes and buying several. In the Albion News, I remember players' profiles - Bobby Moore was 'Born Barking'. I stopped collecting international and FA Cup semi-final and final programmes when they became A4 sized, 100 pages long and £5.
Bournemouth Baggie, I too used to read the Football League insert but off the top of my head I can't remember what it was called either, but something obvious like Football League Review.
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These nostalgia post's make me laugh 
Post one and all the wrinklies come out to play,
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Now then. When I were a lad........ DD 
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(05-09-2017, 21:05)Beefy 1965 Wrote: These nostalgia post's make me laugh
Post one and all the wrinklies come out to play,
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That's what my Mrs said a couple of nights ago (or it might have been a couple of years - can't remember).
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(05-09-2017, 20:35)aries22 Wrote: I've got hundreds of programmes going back to the Fifties and, as Ska'd says, they're a real window into history and a damn good read. When I lived in Wood Green Road in Wednesbury, when Albion were playing away I'd walk to Fellows Park and watch Walsall, who had a really good programme shop in a big hut behind one end. I spent hours in there poring through programmes and buying several. In the Albion News, I remember players' profiles - Bobby Moore was 'Born Barking'. I stopped collecting international and FA Cup semi-final and final programmes when they became A4 sized, 100 pages long and £5.
Bournemouth Baggie, I too used to read the Football League insert but off the top of my head I can't remember what it was called either, but something obvious like Football League Review.
I'm pretty sure you're right, Aries, it was the Football League Review
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