Game 24 in the Great Escape season saw the Baggies record a crucial victory over Manchester City. This year’s team couldn’t quite manage to get all three points but an unexpected point against the other team from Manchester moves the Baggies onto 13 points. It is the first time since Boxing Day that the Baggies have conceded less than two…
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With hope fading fast for the Baggies, Ole Gunnar Solskjær brings his Manchester United side to the Hawthorns on Sunday looking to narrow the gap to their city rivals at the top of the Premier League table. Sam Allardyce can take some encouragement from the fact that Albion were unfortunate to lose the reverse fixture in November, albeit that was…
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While the reverse fixture immediately brings to mind Albion’s 5-3 win in 1978, it is the 5-5 draw in 2013 that has become the most memorable equivalent at the Hawthorns. That match, of course, was Sir Alex Ferguson’s last match as a manager and one which looked as if it was going to plan with nine minutes to go. The…
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Tottenham Hotspur 2 West Brom 0 Any hope that Albion had of getting anything from their latest trip to north London probably evaporated once Harry Kane’s name surprisingly appeared in José Mourinho’s starting line-up. The man who had scored eight goals in his eight games against Albion inevitably made it nine in nine as the Baggies slumped to their fifteenth…
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This season’s Baggies remain at the bottom of the table of the worst ever Premier League Albion sides with defeat at Spurs, a point behind the 2004/05 team who would properly kick off the Great Escape with victory over Manchester City in game 24. They haven’t yet wrestled the title of worst ever Albion side as the 1985/86 team is…
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If there is going to be what would be the most remarkable of escapes for the Baggies, we will certainly need to see signs of it when Albion play their first ever game at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Sam Allardyce has done what he could in the transfer window, albeit not everything he would have liked to do, and…
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