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      PROGRAMME OF THE MONTH - SEPTEMBER 2012

Each month we shall take a look at an Albion ‘programme from the past’. A number of the programmes will be rarities, allowing a much wider audience to view them, perhaps for the very first time.

West Bromwich Albion v Liverpool, League Cup Third Round, Tuesday 3rd October 1972, The Hawthorns

Albion’s victory away at Yeovil Town in the second round of the Capital One Cup was rewarded with a tie at home to eight times League Cup winners and current holders Liverpool.

The game will be the sixth meeting of the two clubs in the competition and for this feature we go back almost exactly 40 years to the first of those meetings, a third round tie at The Hawthorns on October 3, 1972.

The second round had seen Albion beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 at The Hawthorns whilst Liverpool had disposed of second division Carlisle United in an Anfield replay.

The game, watched by a crowd of 17,661, ended in a 1-1 draw. Asa Hartford scored for the Baggies whilst Steve Heighway grabbed a late equaliser for the visitors.

The teams lined up as follows:

Albion: Latchford, Nisbet, Wilson, Cantello, Wile, Robertson, Suggett, T Brown, Gould, A Brown, Hartford.

Liverpool: Clemence, Lawler, Lindsay, Storton, Lloyd, Hughes, Keegan, Cormack, Heighway, Boersma, Callaghan.

A 2-1 defeat in the replay a week later saw Albion knocked out of the competition. Goals from Alistair Robertson and Emlyn Hughes forced the game into extra-time where Kevin Keegan scored a late winner for the Merseysiders.

Liverpool would beat Leeds United in the next round before Tottenham Hotspur ended their run in the quarter-finals. Albion’s season would not get any better; under former player Don Howe the team would finish bottom of the First Division and relegated for the first time in 35 years.

The programme issued for the game, which cost 6p, was the standard 16 page Albion News of the 1972/73 season. The same cover was used for all games during the season except the Texaco Cup games against Sheffield United and Newcastle United.

Three pages were devoted to the visitors whilst the centre pages were a picture spread of the last home game against Sheffield United in the aforementioned Texaco Cup. One page was devoted to the season’s statistics, another page to the club’s reserves and youths whilst another page was devoted to part one of ‘The Tommy Magee Story’, a two part look at the career of one of Albion’s best ever players. The inside back cover was the only page that featured any advertising and even that was for Albion's club shop.

The programme these days can be easily obtained for usually no more than £1.00.

View the complete programme here

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