West Brom 2 Crystal Palace 2 After Baggies boss Bryan Robson recorded his first league victory against Manchester City, we had to wait nine days for Albion’s next league game. On the Saturday in between, Tottenham Hotspur had been the visitors to the Hawthorns for a fourth round RA Cup tie which finished 1-1 after a Jermain Defoe penalty equalised…
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Burnley 0 West Brom 0 Despite it being a largely terrible game of football, there were positives for Sam Allardyce in the goalless draw at Turf Moor, but the over-riding negative was that Albion failed to take all three points. It has been a rare occurrence this season that Albion have deserved to take all three points, and to do…
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Another point moves the Baggies onto 14 points from 25 games, some three points behind their previous worst Premier League season. The are still ahead of the Baggies’ worst ever season, 1985/86. In that campaign, game 25 took place at the Dell on New Year’s Day 1986 and the Saints won 3-1 with goals from Glenn Cockerill, Danny Wallace and…
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Albion have lost just three of their last thirty league meetings with Burnley dating back to March 1993. Two of those defeats came at Turf Moor, both in 2007 with the Baggies most recent league defeat at Burnley coming on the opening day of the 2007/08 season when Kevin Phillips’ opener was overturned by a goal from Michael Duff and…
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Albion travel to Turf Moor this weekend to take on Burnley for the first of a run of four “winnable” fixtures that represent the last slim hope of survival. The Baggies need a significant points haul from these games, no fewer than eight in my opinion, and even taking twelve won’t to be enough to move them out of the…
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West Brom 2 Manchester City 0 While a repeat of the Great Escape looks very unlikely for this season’s Baggies, I thought it would be nice to reflect on how the Albion side of 16 years ago did manage to achieve the impossible. In this series, I will provide a game by game account of the latter stages of that…
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