With Albion apparently no closer to appointing a replacement for Darren Moore, Jimmy Shan will take charge of first team affairs for a second game as the Baggies travel to west London for a tough match at Griffin Park. In contrast to Albion’s home form, Brentford are unbeaten in their last nine games at Griffin Park in all competitions, winning…
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West Brom 3 Swansea City 0 The Baggies finally recorded their first home league victory of 2019 with what would appear to be a comfortable victory over Swansea, but was, in reality, anything but. The visitors had almost 70% possession and an expected goals figure of 2.74, highlighting the fact that the result somewhat flattered Albion. Sam Johnstone made some…
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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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