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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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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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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The Valérien Ismaël era kicks off at the Vitality Stadium on Friday evening although the start of the season is being overshadowed by the transfer speculation surrounding Albion’s star player Matheus Pereira who appears to be on the verge of joining Saudi Arabian side, Al Hilal. The financial impact of COVID means that the majority of clubs in the Championship…
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A season to forget finally draws to a close on Sunday as Albion wave goodbye to the Premier League once again with a trip to Elland Road. The contrasts between the two clubs could hardly be more stark and yet they were on a par just 14 months ago. When the country went into lockdown and football was suspended in…
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Albion are still looking for their first Premier League win over Leeds United, albeit Sunday will be only their fourth attempt. The Whites were the Baggies’ first Premier League opponents at the Hawthorns back in August 2002 and it was the Australian, Harry Kewell, who had the honour of scoring the first Premier League goal at the Shrine when he…
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