I had one. They were made in Hove (Waterloo Street). I used to religiously fill in the teams, the league tabLes etc and it took forever! After a while I just stuck them in from the newspaper!
I think the lowest I was part of was Bradford away, January 1989, but that was still a healthy 2 coaches. We had a police escort to the ground and they ushered us straight in, wouldn’t even let us see the Bradford fire memorial. Some guy approached me on the terraces with his handwritten list...
Most of these clubs have a membership scheme like Albion’s - depends if you want to add £35 onto your ticket price? I joined to see a game at Leverkusen recently and tickets were not a problem but it depends on the game I suppose. I saw a game at Moenchengladbach last season and just bought...
I was talking about this on a call with a colleague of mine who is originally from Sarajevo. She looked a bit blankly at me as I was telling her the tales of our fantastic gold medal in the Sarajevo games and then it dawned on me that she probably hadn’t even been born then!