All is not perfect at West Bromwich Albion, but if you performed a quick search on Twitter and other social media, you could be forgiven for thinking that there was a full-blown crisis at the club. Obviously, in some fans’ eyes, that is exactly what it is, but I think it is time for a reality check to fully appreciate…
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Another frustrating goalless draw puts Albion onto 34 points from 20 games, their second lowest tally in a second tier campaign this century. Only in 2006, when a 3-1 defeat at Hillsborough saw Tony Mowbray’s team drop to 10th place, have the Baggies endured a worse start to a Championship campaign. That proved to be the lowest point in that…
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Another televised fixture on a Friday night and, with the West Midlands Metro out of action, it is a game that will present more challenges than usual for Albion fans to attend. Coupled with recent performances less encouraging than expected, the actual attendance is likely to be somewhat lower than the “tickets sold” attendance that most clubs use these days…
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Blackpool 0 West Brom 0 On a frustrating night on the Lancashire coast, Albion dominated proceedings but failed to get the goal they needed to record a first victory on the road since September. A point, however, did end a run of four successive away defeats, but for a side looking to challenge for automatic promotion, drawing at the home…
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A point at Blackpool at least brought a run of defeats on the road to an end, but only once have Albion been promoted to the Premier League with fewer points from 19 games than this campaign’s total of 33. That was in the 2001/2002 season when Gary Megson’s side had just 32 points at this stage. The only statistic…
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Although Albion still sit in third place in the Championship table, a fourth successive away defeat leaves them eight points adrift of the automatic promotion places and with little sign that they are capable of reducing that gap. Valérien Ismaël came to the club with a philosophy, one which the players looked to have adapted to very quickly in the…
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