West Bromwich Albion have offered their help in the hunt for two FA Cup winners’ medals stolen by burglars from a south Staffordshire house.

The medals, celebrating the Baggies’ 1931 and 1968 Cup wins, were awarded to Fred Everiss, the longest serving football manager in history, and his son Alan, a director and secretary at the club for 66 years.

Describing the pair as “part of this club’s very fabric”, Albion bosses have issued their own appeal for the medals’ return.

And club icon Bobby Hope, who played in the 1968 Wembley final, brought in his own medal – identical to the stolen one – to help in the police inquiry. There is no close-up photographic image of the 1931 award.

Raiders broke into the Great Wyrley home of 66-year-old Pam Everiss, also taking thousands of pounds of jewellery.

One of the medals belonged to her late father-in-law Alan Everiss. The other belonged to his father Fred Everiss, who was running the club in 1931 when the Baggies lifted the Cup for the first time, beating Birmingham.