With Albion needing to average at least two points per game in their remaining nine fixtures to have a chance of maintaining their Premier League status, Sam Allardyce takes his team to one of the hardest places to go in England’s top flight at the moment. Since Thomas Tuchel took charge at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea have won ten and drawn…
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Chelsea are one of eleven teams that have shared at least ten seasons in the Premier League with Albion, and they are the only one of them that the Baggies are yet to beat away from home. Albion’s last win at Stamford Bridge was some 27 years ago in November 1983 when a Garry Thompson goal was enough to see…
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An enforced three-week break between fixtures for the Baggies seems an ideal opportunity to pause and reflect, and I trust that the club hierarchy are doing exactly that and, moreover, planning for what could be a pivotal summer. While relegation is not a mathematical certainty, it would take something incredible for Albion to survive and the first question to address…
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In my look back at the Great Escape of 2005, we move on to game 29 at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea 1 West Brom 0 The Baggies had to wait nine days before attempting to build on the momentum of beating Birmingham City. The FA Cup intervened once again with the sixth round clearing out the Premier League fixtures for the…
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Crystal Palace 1 West Brom 0 Any last vestiges of survival hopes for Albion were surely extinguished as they were beaten at Selhurst Park to leave them eight points from safety (increased to ten following Brighton’s win at Southampton on Sunday) with just nine games left. Escaping relegation remains a mathematical possibility, but if anyone thinks that the Baggies can…
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Another defeat leaves this season’s Baggies at the bottom of their Premier League counterparts, two points behind 2017/18, and three points adrift of Albion’s first two Premier League campaigns. Alan Pardew was still three games from the sack when they lost at Watford three years ago, their sixth successive defeat in all competitions, while game 29 in 1985/86, Albion’s worst…
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