With this season so much worse than any other second tier campaign this century, I have extended the comparison out to include every such campaign since 1988 when the Second Division was first expanded to 24 teams. If nothing else, it gives those of us old enough to remember those days a chance to reminisce! As can be seen, defeat…
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Bristol City’s first win at the Hawthorns for almost 30 years leaves Albion in 20th place ahead of Wednesday’s fixtures. It also means that this campaign is once again the joint worst in the Baggies’ second tier history. In 1994, Alan Buckley’s team drew 0-0 with Port Vale to move onto 14 points leaving them in 23rd place six points…
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The first game under caretaker boss Richard Beale produced Albion’s first win in ten games and their first away win since the 1-0 victory at the same venue in April. Ignoring Darren Moore and Jimmy Shan whose spells in charge of the side were extended, it was the first win under a caretaker managed since Keith Downing took charge of…
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A goalless draw with Luton extends Albion’s winless run to nine games in all competitions and keeps the Baggies in the bottom three some ten points away from the top six. It proved to be Steve Bruce’s last game in charge. In 1994, Albion’s only second tier campaign that started worse than this season, game 13 was Alan Buckley’s first…
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A fourth defeat of the season, and a third in four games, saw Albion drop into the bottom three. That is the first time the Baggies have been in the second tier relegation zone, other than in the first three games of a campaign, since a 2-1 defeat at Walsall on 22nd April 2000 left Gary Megson’s team needing a…
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It was another desperate day for Steve Bruce and his Albion team as they fell to their second home defeat of the season leaving them outside of the drop zone on goal difference alone. It remains the worst start to a second tier season by an Albion team since 1994/95 when Keith Burkinshaw’s team had just 7 points at the…
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