TWO programmes from one of the most famous FA Cup finals of all time are expected to raise more than £1,500 at auction.

The items, from the 1923 game at Wembley when Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham 2-0, will go on sale at Sotheby's in London tomorrow (Saturday).

The famous match became known to many as the "white horse" final after a mounted policeman helped clear thousands of fans who had spilled on to the pitch.

One of the programmes is tipped to fetch £850 and the other £750. The second is valued lower because its spine is taped.

Another item, a leather-bound book, containing the signed manuscript minutes from directors' meetings at Burnden Park between 1926 and 1933, is also expected to attract much interest during the football memorabilia sale. It "disappeared" from the old ground when the team moved to the Reebok. The club said it would not try to prevent the sale.

The minutes cover a time when the football club was flying high, having just won the FA Cup, but problems soon surfaced in 1927/28 when the club found itself floundering at the bottom of the league for the first time in 18 years.

The lot also includes a letter referring to the Burnden disaster, when 33 people died, written by the club's chairman and secretary in 1946.

Other Wanderers items coming up in the sale are a 1926 FA Cup Final programme with its covers detached which is expected to fetch £500.

The two programmes from the 1923 Wanderers v West Ham FA Cup final are also expected to attract the eye of football memorabilia fans.

Another FA Cup victory was secured in 1929 but the early 1930s were unsettled with players coming and going and low wages making it difficult to attract talent.

Then in 1933 came the humiliation of being relegated from the First Division for the first time in 22 years.

"It is quite fascinating reading through the minutes for what was a major club at the time," said Sotheby's football memorabilia expert Graham Budd.

Another FA Cup victory was secured in 1929 but the early 1930s were unsettled with players coming and going and low wages making it difficult to attract talent.

Then in 1933 came the humiliation of being relegated from the First Division for the first time in 22 years.