I’m always hesitant to describe a game as a “must win” when there are so many games left in a season, but Saturday’s visit of Fulham is certainly one that Albion cannot afford to lose. It is the first in a series of seven games in five weeks when the Baggies will meet all five of the other teams in…
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Albion are on a run of ten winless matches against Fulham dating back more than a decade to October 2010 when goals from Youssuf Mulumbu (pictured) and Marc-Antione Fortuné turned around an early lead for the visitors before half time. A shot from former Baggie, Zoltán Gera, hit the post and deflected in off Albion ‘keeper, Scott Carson, to give…
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West Brom 0 Manchester City 5 Any positivity from Albion’s last two away games was dissipated very early on at the Hawthorns on Tuesday evening as a ruthless Manchester City side tore into a lacklustre Baggies team to take a deserved 4-0 half time lead. With Sterling adding a fifth after the break, it means that Albion have conceded 22…
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Back at the Hawthorns on a Tuesday night and “normal” service is resumed for the Baggies. As the BT Sport commentator said, it was the first time since 1978 that a top flight team had conceded three or more goals in five successive home games and it means that Albion have let in 29 goals in their 10 Premier League…
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Since Sheikh Mansour completed the takeover of Manchester City in August 2008, Manchester City have proved to be the most difficult of opponents for the Baggies. Only twice have Albion managed to beat the Citizens since then, in a League Cup tie in 2010 and the only league victory was in the very first post-takeover meeting at the Hawthorns in…
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When Albion left the Etihad with a point just six weeks ago, any sense of achievement was quickly overshadowed by the dismissal of Slaven Bilić and only in the past ten days has the club started to recover from those tumultuous few days. For City, it was also a turning point, so much so that they have won every single…
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