Of all the games in the run up to the Great Escape, game 34 is perhaps the one that is most forgotten. Bryan Robson, who had started his tenure at Albion with a 2-1 home defeat to his former club, returned to the Riverside on 23rd April 2005 with the Baggies in their best form of the season having drawn…
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West Brom 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 As Black Country Derbies go, it was entertaining but the absence of fans in the stadium meant that it lacked the intense atmosphere that would be usual for games between these fierce rivals. While the visiting fans would have been taunting their hosts about their impending relegation, Baggies fans would have been able to…
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Albion may have failed to register successive league doubles against Wolves, but the point means that the Baggies’ unbeaten record against their Black Country rivals will extend to beyond ten years, and their home unbeaten record to more than 25 years by the time the clubs meet again. That does, of course, assume that Albion don’t host Wolves again before…
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Almost ten years have passed since Wolves last visited the Hawthorns, but Monday will see the 150th league meeting between two local rivals who first met in the Football League more than 130 years ago in December 1888. While Albion had beaten their Black Country Rivals twice in the FA Cup before league football started, it wasn’t until their seventh…
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Aston Villa 2 West Brom 2 Albion may not be mathematically relegated, but the late goal from Keenan Davis surely ended the last vestiges of hope for the most optimistic of Baggies’ fans. With just five games remaining, Albion probably need to win every game to give themselves a chance of survival, and with West Ham and Liverpool still fighting…
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Keenan Davis’ late equaliser means that 2021 Albion remain three points adrift of 2005 Albion as they also drew game 33, which you can read about here. This season’s tally of 25 points is some 20 behind Albion’s record tally of 45 points after 33 Premier League games achieved in 2012/13 under Steve Clarke. Despite Tony Mowbray’s side conceding four…
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