A COUPLE from Bromsgrove, whose passion for football brought them together, have celebrated 50 years of happy marriage.

Fred and Margaret Fox, from Cottage Drive, Marlbook, met at Birmingham City’s St Andrew’s ground in 1956.

By the time the game was over, life together had just started for the pair who made a date to see each other again, and the rest is history.

Margaret said: “I looked up at him and he looked down at me and that was it.”

They married at Catshill church on September 6, two years later.

Margaret, aged 72, has lived all her life at Marlbrook and worked at Longbridge as a secretary before she left to have children.

Fred, 77, started his working life on the railway, then went to work at the Rover Motor Company at Solihull – his home town.

He then moved to Longbridge building cars before he retired, aged 60.

Over the years the couple shifted allegiance from Birmingham City to Bromsgrove Rovers where they still spend much of their time, between going on holiday and enjoying their three grandchildren.

The happy couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a celebratory lunch at the Queen’s Head in Stoke Pound with their two sons, their families and close friends.