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West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English football club formed in 1878 by workers from Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire, now part of the West Midlands). They currently play in the Football League Championship.
Their original nickname, 'The Throstles' originated because they had a thrush on their shirt badges. The more colloquial nickname and the more popular one is 'The Baggies'. There are several theories for how this name may have originated, but according to contemporary sources, it appears that the name was bestowed on Albion supporters by their rivals at Aston Villa, because of the characteristic baggy moleskin trousers that many Albion fans wore at work to protect themselves from molten iron in the foundries of the Black Country, West Bromwich being a centre of the 'puddling industry'.
They won their only league title in 1920. They have won the F.A Cup five times, the most recent triumph being in 1968 when they beat Everton thanks to a goal from iconic centre-forward Jeff Astle. This is their most recent major trophy. Albion's most recent successful era came under Ron Atkinson in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they qualified for the UEFA Cup twice and on one occasion reached the quarter final.
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