As it’s an international break and there has been much talk of England’s history having played their one thousandth game on Thursday, how about testing your knowledge about Albion’s England players? We all know that Albion’s current skipper, Jake Livermore, was the last Baggie to represent England, but how much more do you know about players from West Bromwich Albion…
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Hull City 0 West Brom 1 Slaven Bilić’s Albion recorded another victory and another clean sheet on the road to keep ahead of the chasing pack in the Championship. It was a victory that was due in no small part to a superb performance by Baggies’ captain, Jake Livermore, capped by a wonderful strike to score the only goal of…
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Nine wins and six draws from the opening sixteen games of the season represents the best start to a season for any Albion side since Vic Buckingham’s “Team of the Century” that opened the 1953/54 season with a 12-2-2 record that would have yielded 38 points had it been three points for a win. The win at Hull City kept…
Read MoreWhen Darren Moore took his Baggies team to the KC Stadium at exactly the same stage of last season, the early autumn promise had started to wane and a 1-0 defeat to second bottom Hull City proved to be a fourth game without a win, although a 4-1 victory over Leeds United a few days later reignited the spark. In…
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Stoke City 0 West Brom 2 The Stoke hoodoo is surely dead now as the Baggies recorded successive wins away to the Potters for the first time since 1931. Slaven Bilić’s team also notched up their third clean sheet of the season, all of which have come on the road, in what could be best described as an adequate performance.…
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Playing on a Monday night felt like Albion had to re-gain top spot but, in reality, they started the round in first place and finished it in exactly the same position. It was not always convincing at the Bet365 Stadium, but it was good enough to claim all three points. Only Gary Megson’s 2003 side had more points at this…
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