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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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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