Were there any fans at Saturday’s match between Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, both sets of fans would be looking at the opposition bench and reflecting on what a good job the opposing manager did in their time at the club. Allardyce definitely left the Eagles in a better place than when he took over (ironically from another future…
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Albion are on a five match winless streak against Crystal Palace, six if you include the Premier League Asia Trophy game in the summer of 2017, but I choose not to! Their last win over the Eagles came at Selhurst Park in August 2016 when Salomón Rondón (pictured) scored the only goal of the game. More recently, of course, Selhurst…
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West Brom 0 Newcastle United 0 Albion’s failure to beat Newcastle United at the Hawthorns has more than likely condemned them to playing Championship football next season. Mathematically, there is still hope with thirty points still to play for, but with what is effectively a nine point gap to make up on two clubs in ten games, the mountain is…
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A goalless draw with Newcastle United is really not enough for the Baggies and, coupled with Fulham’s victory at Anfield, it leaves Sam Allardyce’s side as good as down. They are now eight points behind both Fulham and Brighton who are immediately above them, and still nine behind Newcastle. With just ten games to go, Albion will need a truly…
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West Brom 2 Birmingham City 0 After beating Manchester City in their last game of January to raise hopes, Bryan Robson’s team had gone through February without winning and those had begun to fade again. For game 28, the first in March, it was Birmingham City that visited the Hawthorns for the friendlier of the local derbies. Blues had been…
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While many will feel that Albion’s hopes of survival are already lost, even the most optimistic will feel that Sunday’s match with Newcastle United is a must-win fixture if Sam Allardyce’s team are to have any chance of retaining their Premier League status. Steve Bruce’s side have endured a poor run of form of late and have slipped from a…
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