Editing West Bromwich Albion F.C. (section)

==="Baggies" nickname===
[[File:BaggieBird.jpg|thumb|upright|right|''Baggie Bird'' is one of two West Bromwich Albion mascots.]]
Although known in their early days as ''"the Throstles"'', the club's more popular nickname among supporters came to be ''the Baggies'', a term which the club itself looked down upon for many years but later embraced. The phrase was first heard at the Hawthorns in the 1900s, but its exact origins are uncertain.<ref name="McOwan pp38-40">McOwan pp. 38–40.</ref> One suggestion is that the name was bestowed on Albion supporters by their rivals at [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]], because of the large baggy trousers that many Albion fans wore at work to protect themselves from molten iron in the factories and foundries of the [[Black Country]].<ref>''Full Throstle'' DVD 0:08:48</ref> Club historian Tony Matthews, however, suggests that it derives from the "bagmen", who carried the club's matchday takings in big leather bags from the turnstiles to the cash office on the halfway line.<ref name="BOING Baggies nickname">{{cite web
| title = Why are we called The Baggies ?
| url = http://www.baggies.com/faq/#BAGGIES
| publisher = BOING
| access-date = 11 November 2007
| archive-date = 15 October 2007
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071015130354/http://baggies.com/faq/#BAGGIES
| url-status = live
}}</ref> Other theories relate to the baggy shorts worn by various players during the club's early years.<ref name="McOwan pp38-40"/><ref name="BOING Baggies nickname"/> The official club mascots are named ''Baggie Bird'' and ''Albi''; both are based on the throstle depicted on the club crest.<ref>{{Cite news
| title = Baggie Birds need your support
| url = http://www.wba.co.uk/page/News/0,,10366~2006780,00.html
| publisher = West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 27 March 2010
| access-date = 3 May 2010
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120913060804/http://www.wba.co.uk/page/News/0%2C%2C10366~2006780%2C00.html
| archive-date = 13 September 2012
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref>