Two of the six clubs who have earned seven points from the opening three games meet at Ewood Park on Saturday when sixth placed Blackburn Rovers host top of the table West Bromwich Albion. For Baggies fans, it is another meeting with a popular former manager, Tony Mowbray, a man with a very different football philosophy to the current favourite…
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West Brom 4 Sheffield United 0 If the impressive first hour against Luton Town on Saturday was tempered by the travails of the last twenty minutes, last night’s display against Sheffield United will have gone a long way to blowing away any doubts Baggies fans have been harbouring about Val-ball. Only time will tell whether such a comprehensive victory against…
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Albion haven’t topped a league table this early in a season since Ossie Ardiles was in charge at the Hawthorns in 1992 – they opened that season with six wins and a draw from their opening seven games. The impact that Ismaël has had on the club is every bit as profound as the one the Argentine had and the…
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Two of the relegated sides meet at the Hawthorns on Wednesday evening for an early meeting of two of the pre-season promotion favourites. However, the two have experienced very different starts to the season with Albion sitting as one of ten clubs to have earned four points from their opening two matches having scored five goals, Sheffield United have just…
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Only Bryan Robson’s team of 2006 had a better record from the opening two games of a second tier season this century having a slightly better goal difference following an opening day 2-0 victory over Hull City was followed up with a 1-1 draw at Cardiff. Only once have the Baggies scored five in the first couple – Gary Megson’s…
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Valérien Ismaël takes charge of his new Baggies side at the Hawthorns for the first time on Saturday with Nathan Jones’ Luton Town the visitors for Albion’s opening home game. It will be the Frenchman’s first match involvement of any sort at the Hawthorns with none of Albion’s pre-season friendlies having been played at the stadium and he wasn’t lucky…
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