Another defeat for Shan’s Baggies and hopes of automatic promotion are well and truly dashed. Only Mowbray’s 2008 team have won promotion with so few points after 41 games, but we all know that was a very low scoring season. Game 42 for Megson’s 2004 team was particularly memorable. A backs-to-the-wall performance at third-placed Sunderland proved pivotal with Sean Gregan…
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Defeat at Millwall means this season’s Baggies are three points behind Gary Megson’s 2002 promotion winning team but still three ahead of Tony Mowbray’s title-winning team of 2008. We know, of course, that the 81 points that was enough to win the title that season is likely to only secure a play-off spot this time, and everything indicates that Albion…
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Less than a week after the Battle of Bramall Lane, Albion were on the road again and travelled to the City Ground, Nottingham, on Friday 22nd March 2002 looking to keep up the pressure on Wolves who were playing the following day. That morning, the Football League confirmed that the 3-0 scoreline when the match against Sheffield United was abandoned…
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In 2002, Albion were in search of their first promotion to the Premier League and what would be their first return to the top flight in 26 years. With ten games to go, automatic promotion seemed to be out of reach, much like this season, as Gary Megson’s Baggies were ten points adrift of their Black Country neighbours, Wolverhampton Wanderers,…
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A hard fought comeback win over Birmingham City sees Shan’s Baggies move onto 70 points with 7 games to go. That means that they are keeping pace with Megson’s 2002 promotion team who hauled in Wolves in the run-in. That team would go on to drop just two more points that season, thanks to the Jordão ghost goal against Rotherham, and…
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A great goal from Kyle Edwards on his first league start for the Baggies earned Jimmy Shan his second win as caretaker boss as Albion ended Brentford’s seven match winning run at Griffin Park. The win puts the 2019 Baggies level on points with Megson’s first promotion side, although this season’s team have scored an incredible 27 more goals! They…
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