Blackburn Rovers v West Bromwich Albion; Ewood Park, Sunday 14th August 2022, 3pm Having opened their league campaign with matches against two of the pre-season promotion favourites, Albion now face the side that sit top of the early Championship table. Blackburn Rovers are the only Championship side to have won their opening two fixtures following up a narrow 1-0 win…
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West Bromwich Albion v Sheffield United; The Hawthorns, Thursday 11th August 2022, 8pm Thursday night football is back at the Hawthorns! Yes, that’s a phrase that doesn’t really sit well, isn’t it? This weeks’ League Cup tie will be just the 34th match played on a Thursday in the entire club’s history, excluding those on the traditional holiday fixture dates…
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West Bromwich Albion v Watford; The Hawthorns, Monday 8th August 2022, 8pm Albion’s first home game of the season sees relegated Watford visit the Hawthorns for the first time since 2017. Once again, the game is on Sky TV although the decision to move it to Monday was made by the police first due to concerns over a clash with…
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Middlesbrough v West Bromwich Albion; Riverside Stadium, Saturday 30th July 2022, 5.30pm The new season kicks off this weekend, in July thanks to the mid-season World Cup, with Albion facing a very tough opening fixture at Middlesbrough. While Steve Bruce has been at the Hawthorns helm for a number of months, Saturday evening’s game will usher in something of a…
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Albion’s worst season for 22 years will finally come to an end on Saturday with the visit of bottom club, Barnsley, to the Hawthorns. The Baggies have finished as one of the top 24 clubs in the country for the last two decades but the highest they will finish this campaign is 9th in the Championship should they win and…
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With Albion now mathematically unable to reach the play-offs and Reading mathematically safe, this Saturday’s fixture at the Madejski Stadium, or the Select Car Leasing Stadium is the sponsors would like us to call it, is very much a dead rubber for the teams as a whole, but some of the players may have something to play for. The Express…
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