A welcome three points for caretaker, Jimmy Shan, and his team puts the 2019 challenge ahead of both the 2001 and 2007 teams that finished in the play-off positions, and also ahead of Tony Mowbray’s title-winning team. Game 38 saw Megson’s team drop points for the penultimate time that season – eight wins and a draw in the last nine…
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As Mark Jenkins and Luke Dowling working on appointing the next Head Coach, first team coach Jimmy Shan has the unenviable task of preparing what will undoubtedly be a shell-shocked first team squad for another important game in Albion’s season. At the time of writing, it seems highly unlikely that an appointment will be made in time for the new…
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Much has been written in the past few days about the decision to sack Darren Moore, with many in the national media and the game as a whole decrying the decision as being somewhere between outrageous and incredibly harsh. I made my views clear in my article on Sunday but, while there were fans actively calling for Moore to go, there…
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West Brom 1 Ipswich Town 1 The day may have ended with the shock sacking of Darren Moore, my thoughts on which I covered in my earlier article, but the main event of the day should have been the football match. Fourth in the table against rock bottom should have been a comfortable home win, but it didn’t go quite…
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Another two points dropped at home, and hopes of the top two moved further away after the draw against Ipswich. Tony Mowbray’s side were just a point worse off than the current Baggies side at the same stage, and went on to win the title despite losing 4-1 at home to Leicester City in their next match. The Championship was…
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If ever there was an illustration of the short-termism and lack of sentiment in football, it was the decision to sack Darren Moore as the Head Coach of West Bromwich Albion yesterday evening. Even from a pure footballing point of view, it seems a very harsh decision. The Baggies are in fourth place with ten games to go, well placed…
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