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A lifetime of loyalty: Ken Lord's 80 years with West Brom
National World - LocalTV
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2 days ago
Ken Lord has been following West Bromwich Albion for 80 years. He’s not just a superfan—he’s a living archive of the club’s history. We caught up with him to hear his remarkable story of loyalty, love, and football through the decades.
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Most of us inherit our football club a badge, a colour, a memory passed through the family line,
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but for Ken Lord, West Bromwich Albion became more than a team, it was part of his identity.
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He watched his first game in the 1940s, still a boy, and from then on,
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the club became the backdrop to his life. That first spark, it never faded.
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Football's come to a full stop during the war, and they never even started until 1946-47,
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with a bit of a chamber because clubs were waiting for players to come back from the war
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and see what they got, if they can organise a team. So then the government of the day said,
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can you get, not only football or sports, can you get something,
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organising something to keep these people happy. So before we didn't start leg release,
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so before it's then. Yeah. And then I started to come legally. And since then, I haven't wished to live this.
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Back then, the matchday experience looked very different. Terraces, rattles, no floodlights,
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no VAR, but the emotions haven't changed. The elation, the heartbreak, the ritual. No matter what
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happens beyond the stadium, for some, football stays the one constant. Ken's watched it all shift
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around him, yet he's still here, still loyal. They entertained crowds, maybe 40, 30,000 and 30.
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Well, he then signed this Monday for about a week. Well, why couldn't we get it? So he discussed with the
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government and the FA, and they come to the conclusion that footballers are in assignments,
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they shouldn't have made money. And that's when he got the first. One hundred pounds of football,
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which was amazing in them days. And obviously the football clubs were still able to pay that much.
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Ken doesn't just support the club, he helps preserve its memory. Each week, he joins other fans in
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piecing together West Brom's past. Reminiscing, recording, remembering. In a game so obsessed with
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the next fixture, the next signing, it's easy to forget the stories that made it what it is. Ken hasn't.
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Ken hasn't. If you can't find it yet to promote West Bromish Albion, I take it. I mean, one of my
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pets there was, he comes to Albion, and they say, oh, you come from West Brom. And I say to them,
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no, I'm a West Bromish Albion supporter. But unfortunately, over the years, in television,
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they do, we've all named West Bromish Albion. When West Bromish Albion supporter of the country.
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Now, those are my main objects, and we always want to help you, but I'll be cautious of it.
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