All Baggies fans will have been relieved when the news emerged yesterday that Jay Rodriguez’s red card had been rescinded. The FA disciplinary panel sat on New Year’s Eve and concluded that Rodriguez did not stamp on Marco Matias. What puzzles me is why there has been no secondary charge brought against Matias for simulation. In May 2017, the FA…
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Albion travel to Blackburn for their first game of 2019 looking for their fifth successive away victory and to extend their unbeaten run to ten games. The last time that the Baggies managed five away league victories in succession was in 2002 culminating in an injury time penalty by Igor Balis at Valley Parade which meant that Albion’s first promotion…
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West Brom 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 For the second time in a few weeks, Albion managed to scramble a stoppage time equaliser at the Hawthorns in what was a disappointing performance at the Hawthorns. The ball bobbled into the same corner of the same net as the “Hand of Rod” goal had done against Villa, but there was no controversy…
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They left it late, but Albion did manage to score in every home league game of 2018 thanks to Chris Brunt’s effort that apparently deflected in off Wednesday’s David Jones.
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Darren Moore’s Baggies face Sheffield Wednesday in the final game of 2018 looking to complete a feat that the club haven’t managed since 1955. It seems unlikely given how last season went, but should Albion find the net on Saturday, they will have scored in every single home league game of the calendar year. The last Albion team to do…
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West Brom 2 Wigan Athletic 0 Albion made it six wins from the last eight games by deservedly beating the Latics at the Hawthorns on Boxing Day, although it was not an entirely comfortable afternoon. An early goal from what was the Baggies first serious attack should have set Darren Moore’s team off an running as it did at Rotherham…
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