Defeat at Millwall means this season’s Baggies are three points behind Gary Megson’s 2002 promotion winning team but still three ahead of Tony Mowbray’s title-winning team of 2008. We know, of course, that the 81 points that was enough to win the title that season is likely to only secure a play-off spot this time, and everything indicates that Albion…
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Less than a week after the Battle of Bramall Lane, Albion were on the road again and travelled to the City Ground, Nottingham, on Friday 22nd March 2002 looking to keep up the pressure on Wolves who were playing the following day. That morning, the Football League confirmed that the 3-0 scoreline when the match against Sheffield United was abandoned…
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A win for the Baggies on Saturday would not only see them record their best run of victories this season, but it would also be their first ever victory at the New Den. More pertinently, it would keep Albion’s faint hopes of automatic promotion alive. Albion are on a run of three victories for the fourth time this season, but…
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In 2002, Albion were in search of their first promotion to the Premier League and what would be their first return to the top flight in 26 years. With ten games to go, automatic promotion seemed to be out of reach, much like this season, as Gary Megson’s Baggies were ten points adrift of their Black Country neighbours, Wolverhampton Wanderers,…
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West Brom 3 Birmingham City 2 Jimmy Shan made is three wins from three as Albion came from behind twice to win an exciting, and occasionally bruising, local derby against Birmingham City at the Hawthorns. After a lack lustre first half performance from the Baggies, they looked much more like it after the break and deservedly took all three points. …
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A hard fought comeback win over Birmingham City sees Shan’s Baggies move onto 70 points with 7 games to go. That means that they are keeping pace with Megson’s 2002 promotion team who hauled in Wolves in the run-in. That team would go on to drop just two more points that season, thanks to the Jordão ghost goal against Rotherham, and…
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