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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West Brom 1 Manchester United 1 With Sam Allardyce able to field his key January signings from the start, Albion produced an encouraging performance against title-chasing Manchester United, and will be disappointed not to have taken all three points. It’s not very often that we have been able to say that this season, and the odds are that these positive…
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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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