If you can meet with triumph and disaster - especially disaster - then you are probably a fan of West Midlands football in the 1980s.

From a region that boasted league titles, European Cup winners, League Cup winners, thrills and spills at the outset of the decade, to a time when its clubs were all plumbing new depths and barely scraping together a shilling for the floodlights, that was 1980s football in the West Midlands.

Steven Scragg and Chris Lepkowski investigate a decade that went from bostin’ to bosted.

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