When Stoke City appear on next on the fixture list, there is always a collective groan from Albion fans. It is probably the last fixture that Baggies fans would want after back-to-back defeats at the hands if the Villa. The City fans’ chant of “We always beat West Brom” is so close to the truth as to be painful to…
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The week of the double-header has arrived. Not since the 1950s when double-headers were commonplace have Albion and Villa played each other twice in such a short space of time, and never have they done so at the same venue. Since the draw was made, the fortunes of the clubs have continued along the established trends – upwards for the…
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Tony Pulis welcomes Ronald Koeman and his Southampton team to the Hawthorns on Saturday, looking to make it three home wins in a row and a fourth successive clean sheet.
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Anyone with a modicum of interest in football has long accepted that the award of the World Cup to Qatar in 2022 was first and foremost a grave error for the tournament and football as a whole, even when holding one’s nose to stifle the strong smell of corruption. The “FIFA Taskforce” set up to look at the scheduling has probably…
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When West Bromwich Albion were paired with Aston Villa in last week’s FA Cup Sixth Round draw, it not only brought together two fierce local rivals, one of the oldest rivalries in English football lasting 130 years, but also two clubs with a rich FA Cup history totalling twelve wins and twenty appearances in the final between them.
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The “Tony Pulis Effect” seems to have gathered pace over the past week at the Hawthorns. After two moderately disappointing performances against Spurs and Burnley, the Baggies produced two excellent displays to dispatch both Swansea and West Ham at the Hawthorns scoring six goals without reply. While the excitement of the FA Cup quarter-final draw has dominated most fans’ thoughts…
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