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 Albion Till We Die (ATWD) is an independent West Bromwich Albion Football Club website and is run by Albion fans for fellow fans. This
site is dedicated to every single person that has over the years supported
or contributed in some way towards our great club. The idea of the site originally came about in early 2004 when due to disgruntlement with the quality of a number of other West Brom sites on the internet the then editors of ATWD made the decision to try and provide fellow Albion fans with something different as opposed to the usual results, squad details and basic history that most other sites seemed to offer.
April 2005 saw a long overdue revamp carried out with a brand new look for the site and a number of new ideas. Unfortunately this meant most of the original content disappeared although most of it only temporarily. The following month saw the launch of the site's very own message board, albionchat.co.uk At time of writing, after almost three years, the board has almost 200 members, although due to a lack of time, interest and better alternatives it is rarely posted on nowadays. The start of the 2005/06 season saw the site take on it's very own match previewer and reporter Dale Brookes who had previously wrote for another independent West Brom website. This was followed a few weeks later by NewsNow agreeing to publish news, previews and reports from our site thus giving it for the first time a potentially huge readership. In October 2005 and six months after it's first major revamp the site underwent another thanks to the site’s then assistant editor Richard Hooper, this time not only was it given a new look but also a totally new navigation system. For the first time since it's launch the site had a professional look. Just one month after the revamp the website saw changes in personnel with Richard Hooper and Dale Brookes both leaving. It did however gain a new contributor in Martyn Todd, who had previously written for baggiesworld.co.uk New Year 2006 saw the website given valuable publicity when the site editor was given the opportunity to write an article for the Irish Examiner newspaper. Basically a look at the Premiership season so far, the article was published in a special supplement issued with the newspaper.
Almost four years on from it's humble beginnings, ATWD is now established as one of the better independent West Brom
websites. Having said that, the site is run purely as a hobby and due to far
more important things in life taking up time it has not
developed as quickly as was initially hoped. The long-term aim does remain
the same though - to be THE most informative and
accurate online resource for all
things WBA. (April 2008) Mark Thomas - Founder & Editor A life long Albion fan, watched his first game during the 1981/82 season, a home and away season ticket holder. DISCLAIMER albiontillwedie.co.uk is an independent and unofficial website and is in no way connected to West Bromwich Albion Football Club. The views and opinions expressed in the material on this site and on it's associated site albionchat.co.uk are not those of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, nor are they necessarily shared by the editor of this site. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this site, ATWD accepts no responsibility for any use made of the information provided and shall not be liable for any loss suffered thereby. All content is the property of ATWD unless otherwise stated and may not be reproduced without express, prior permission. Some content and information has been extracted / modified from other sources. In these instances all credit is given to those sources where possible and ATWD do not take any credit or responsibility for the content and information. ATWD is not responsible for the content of the various websites to which we have provided links. PRIVACY ATWD does not collect nor does it disclose any personal information i.e. email addresses. EDITORIAL POLICY All contributions are welcome although racist, sexist, libellous or abusive submissions will not be considered for publication. All material forwarded to ATWD is subject to editorial review. COPYRIGHT ATWD is run as a service to fellow supporters without any commercial or private gain. We have no wish to abuse copyright regulations and apologise unreservedly if this occurs. If you own any of the material used on this site, and object to its inclusion then please contact us and we will either remove the material or if preferred give proper acknowledgement. ADVERTISING ATWD
is a non-money making website and the editor and
writers receive no payment
for running this site. We would however consider providing advertising
space to help towards running costs of the site. We are
always looking for people to help with this site, whether it be
by writing match previews and
reports, articles, ground reviews, your memories of the club or by contributing
photographs, anything
Albion related will be considered. It can be on a regular basis or
it can be a one-off contribution. Please get in touch if you can help in
anyway. A huge thanks to everyone that has contributed towards this site. Special thanks also go to the following people for their help. Richard
Hooper for designing and helping to establish the site as well as providing
numerous photographs. RESOURCES Some of the information on this site has been extracted from / clarified against the following sources. Thanks to all those listed and to the many other people who have over the years devoted their time to writing about 'The Albion' The
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