INTRODUCTION

Were you aware that the Throstles were the first English club to tour both the USSR and China, that Andy Johnson kept sheep, or that Tommy Glidden had a chrysanthemum named after him?

Tales of the bold, the beautiful, the odd and the awful abound through this Albion Miscellany with stories that date from the club's formation to the present day. So comrades of the People's Republic of West Bromwich, let this be your little blue book, crammed with philosophies by which to live chaste, virtuous, better lives.