With relegation confirmed, Albion welcome Liverpool to the Hawthorns on Sunday evening for what will hopefully be the last ever match at the venue with fans excluded. While the Baggies having nothing left to play for, Jürgen Klopp’s team are still chasing a top four spot that they kept alive with their victory at Old Trafford on Thursday evening. They…
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Albion are currently in the midst of a four match unbeaten run against last season’s Premier League champions. They earned their first point under Sam Allardyce at Anfield on Boxing Day and, in their last Premier League season, they drew 2-2 with the Reds at the Hawthorns under Darren Moore, earned a 0-0 draw at Anfield in the league earlier…
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Sam Allardyce takes his side to the Emirates on Sunday evening in the knowledge that Albion will be playing football in the Championship next season. The big unanswered question is whether Allardyce will be at the helm when the Baggies kick off their promotion challenge in August. Mathematically, of course, Albion can still escape. Four wins would lift them onto…
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With just one win in twelve games at Arsenal in the Premier League era, the Baggies have a pretty dreadful record in that particular part of north London in recent years. Even if you look back to Albion’s more successful eras, Highbury was never a happy hunting ground – not only did the Baggies win just ten of 54 matches…
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Almost ten years have passed since Wolves last visited the Hawthorns, but Monday will see the 150th league meeting between two local rivals who first met in the Football League more than 130 years ago in December 1888. While Albion had beaten their Black Country Rivals twice in the FA Cup before league football started, it wasn’t until their seventh…
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Allardyce takes his Albion team to Villa Park on Sunday evening knowing that the gig is almost up in his attempt to keep his record of never being relegated from the Premier League. When the Baggies meekly surrendered to Dean Smith’s team in his first game in charge in the reverse fixture in December, I wonder whether Big Sam was…
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