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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Another game and another draw, seven in the first ten games of the season, and Albion sit just one place outside the relegation zone with just ten points. Back in 1994, the last time that the Baggies started a second tier season with such poor results, Keith Burkinshaw’s team lost 3-1 at home to Sunderland in their tenth game of…
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After another display from Steve Bruce’s side resulted in Albion’s first home defeat to Birmingham City for 17 years, as well as their first home defeat of the campaign, and leaves the Baggies in 20th place in the Championship. Nine points from the opening nine games is still the worst start to a second tier season since Keith Burkinshaw’s side…
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A debut goal from Brandon Thomas-Asante sent the Baggies faithful home happy albeit it was a third successive draw that leaves Steve Bruce’s side firmly in mid-table. Only once before has an Albion side drawn six of their first eight games of the season – that was Brian Little’s team in 1999/2000 who won the other two games but had…
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