After seeing the club announce four deadline day signings to following their opening day victory at the City Ground, the Albion faithful will surely be excited to see the Bilić era get underway at the Hawthorns. With a Carabao Cup tie to follow against the same opponents on Tuesday evening, Saturday’s Championship fixture is the first of a double header…
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Nottingham Forest 1 West Brom 2 Stand-out performances from Nathan Ferguson and Kyle Edwards helped Slaven Bilić to start his reign at the Hawthorns with a victory in what was a hugely encouraging start to Albion’s campaign. The hosts dominated the first ten minutes of the match, taking the lead through Matty Cash, but from then on, it was the…
Read MoreHere we go again with another campaign with the Baggies expecting challenge for promotion and, for only the second time this century, Albion kicked off a second tier campaign with a victory. In 2006, a double from John Hartson on debut earned the Baggies all three points at the Hawthorns against Hull City. While Tony Pulis’s team started the 2016/17…
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For the second season in succession, Albion’s away league programme starts at the City Ground and, once again, the fixture has been chosen for live television coverage. Having lost their opening fixture at home to Bolton Wanderers last term, Darren Moore’s team earned their first point of the season at Forest thanks to Matt Phillips’ late equaliser. Slaven Bilić will…
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With little more than a week of the transfer window remaining, Albion have signed five new players with the hope that a few more will join them before next Thursday as Slaven Bilić looks to rebuild a squad that has lost no fewer than eleven players since the end of last season. In this article, I take a look at the…
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After a lengthy, painstaking and, for many Baggies fans, frustrating search, the West Bromwich Albion board have opted to appoint former West Ham United and Croatia manager, Slaven Bilić, as their new Head Coach. I opted not to comment on these pages on the numerous names that have been linked to the Hawthorns top job since the gut-wrenching defeat on…
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