Carlos Corberán’s Albion recorded back-to-back victories for the first time this season to move onto 20 points, still in the bottom three but just four points off 13th-placed Sunderland. The last time Albion won three games in a row was at the start of last season under Valérien Ismaël when they won four consecutive league games after the initial opening…
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Okay Yokuşlu’s first goal for the Baggies secured a massive win for Albion and registered Carlos Corberán’s first points as head coach. It moved the Baggies off the bottom of the table, for 24 hours at least, above the Spaniard’s former club, Huddersfield Town, ahead of their match at home to Sunderland on Wednesday evening. Game 18 in the 1994/95…
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A third straight defeat for Albion leaves them bottom of the table and it is now the club’s worst start to a second tier season all on its own. Alan Buckley’s side in 1994 picked up a point in game 17, Bob Taylor equalising Kim Grant’s opener for Charlton Athletic at the Valley, moving them onto 15, one more than…
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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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