Despite a frustrating afternoon that brought a second successive goalless draw for Slaven Bilić and his team, the Baggies moved back to the top of the table (until tomorrow at least) and extended the gap to third placed Fulham to seven points. The Baggies have never failed to be promoted having earned 71 points from 38 games with only Megson’s…
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The much anticipated restart of the Championship is almost upon us and, after 105 days without competitive football, Slaven Bilić’s team return to action on Saturday at the Hawthorns against Birmingham City. With fans forced to watch the game from home, I’m sure there’ll be a few light fittings in danger as Baggies fans will hopefully be boinging in their…
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‘Unprecedented’ is a word that has been over-used in the last few months as the world has battled the COVID-19 pandemic but, while the cause of football’s shutdown is certainly something we have never seen before, it is not the first time that the game we love has had to take a pause because of global events. However, it has…
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As English football prepares to return, albeit without supporters in attendance, Chris Brunt announced this week that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season. That unfortunately means that we will not get the chance to see Brunty, in person at least, in an Albion shirt again, and it is disappointing that he will not get…
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With football suspended until who knows when, we have a first Easter weekend without league football since the second world war, so to remind us all what it’s about, here is a short quiz on Albion’s Easter fixtures from history. Hopefully, it will help pass a little of the time we all have to spare now there is no football…
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An ultimately frustrating afternoon at the Liberty Stadium resulted in the Baggies’ first goalless draw of the campaign and saw them relinquish top spot to Leeds United. Albion are still six points clear of third placed, Fulham, who themselves are four points clear of Brentford in fourth. The Cottagers still have to visit Leeds, Nottingham Forest and, of course, Albion…
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