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Black Country derby: Landlord and lady on opposite sides of divide await tense - and busy - matchday

Sunday will be a huge day for football in the Black Country - and a tense day for a couple who sit on different sides of a fierce derby divide.

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Martin Cadman and Jo Selman will be busy serving customers at the Old Bulls Head in Lower Gornal when the FA Cup match between West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers kicks off, at 11.45am on Sunday.

However, the landlord and landlady will also be in competition with each other - one supports Wolves and the other is a Baggies supporter.

Jo said that she had grown up in a family of Wolves supporters and had been a season ticket holder until she was 20, remaining a fan as she approached 44, while her fiancée 37-year-old Martin has been an Albion fan all his life.