Seasons can turn on such moments – we can only hope that it happens for the Baggies this time. Chris Mepham, definitely a villain of the piece in recent games, pops up with a 95th minute equaliser to earn a well-deserved point at Derby. The Baggies also got a bit of luck, something that has been all too rare this…
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Even the most pessimistic of Albion fans would not have expected a performance to plumb the depths of their Baggies-supporting lives, but that’s what they got as Eric Ramsay’s team were pummelled by what is, in all honesty, a poor Norwich City team. I’ve been digging into the club history this season given the club’s desperate away form, but I…
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A home defeat is not the way that Eric Ramsay will have wanted to start his tenure at the Hawthorns, but he’s in good company in that Carlos Corberán started his Albion career with a home defeat against promotion chasers, and went on to record nine wins from the next ten games. The Spaniard, of course, had a little longer…
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The footballing gods certainly have it in for the Baggies at the moment. Albion largely dominated the game at Leicester City on Monday night but came up against a ‘keeper on a special night and lost to a 94th minute worldy. It would normally be put down to “one of those nights” but as a tenth successive away defeat, it…
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The opening day of 2026 saw Ryan Mason’s team fall to a ninth successive away league defeat, the worst run by any Albion side outside the top flight, and the club’s worst run since the 1972/73 campaign which ended in relegation for Don Howe’s team. A similar away run for Albion in the 1937/38 season also ended in relegation, while…
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The Baggies end 2025 just five points worse off than they ended 2024, and yet the feelings amongst the fan base seem to be much worse, despite the fact that twelve months ago, Carlos Corberán had just walked out on the club and a replacement had yet to be appointed. One notable point about the victory over QPR is that…
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