The Hand of Rod incident, as it has quickly become known, highlights a massive inconsistency in the application of the handball rule in football that has persisted for years and has always left me confused. The appropriate section of Law 12 reads “Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with the hand…
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Albion’s defeat at Hull on Saturday was hugely disappointing, and it was probably as bad a performance as we have seen under Darren Moore’s leadership, but I still maintain that calls for his head are extremely premature.
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After back to back defeats, the sounds of discontentment have got louder on the Albion fans’ message boards and social media groups. That is understandable, but in my opinion, calls for Darren Moore’s head are a massive over-reaction.
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After taking seven points from three games this week, and winning the Manager of the Month award, Darren Moore should be proud of what is a remarkable achievement.
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Eight games into the season, and Albion fans who have been to every league fixture so far will have witnessed an average of four goals a game, twenty of which have been scored by the Baggies something that hasn’t been bettered by any Albion side since the 1950s. But they will have also watched some of it through their fingers…
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As Baggies fans look forward to next season in the Championship with a mixture of disappointment at relegation, but anticipation of what will hopefully be a much more entertaining season, I’d like to take a look at where it all went wrong for West Bromwich Albion and, while the season just gone could have been rescued on a number of…
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