How the Midland football players of yesteryear earned just £4 per WEEK
Today's West Bromwich Albion players earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a week.
But 100 years ago it was a different story.
Full back Jesse Pennington played for the Baggies for 455 times from 1903 to 1922, also making 25 appearances for England.
Yet, during a dispute with the club in 1910, the player was given just £4 a week during a spell for Kidderminster Harriers.
In today's terms that would equate to £429.62.
The pay was unveiled in a 'payers agreement' discovered in the drawer of a West Midlands home by Charles Hanson, manager of Hansons Auctioneers.
The payslip is going up for auction, which is priced between £80 to £120.
The document shows the defender registering for the Harriers, after he left West Bromwich Albion, following the dispute.
Pennington, nicknamed 'Peerless', only spent a short at Harriers however, amassing just one game for the outfit before resolving his dispute with Albion and returned to the club.
When the payslip was signed, Pennington was an England international.
His weekly wage would be dwarfed by those of professional players today - Wayne Rooney of Manchester United earns £260,00 a week, which is closely followed by Sergio Aguero of Manchester City who earns £240,000 a week.
Pennington had a clean football playing career. He never got booked once by a referee.
He was even offered £5 by a shopkeeper called Pascoe Bioletti to lose a game against Everton on November 29, 1913, as part of a gambling plot, but Pennington refused the offer and informed the police and club.
Bioletti was subsequently arrested and later sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to influence the result.
Alongside the payslip and other items belonging to Pennington that was discovered was an Albion News and Official Programme from August 26 1922.
It celebrates Jesse's retirement from the game - noted, it says 'Jesse Pennington has always been a favourite wherever he has played and his sporting instincts have been a credit to himself , his country , his club and the game generally and it is to be hoped that his example will be followed by the younger generation of players.'
The items will go up for auction on August 23.
