Norwich City visit the Hawthorns this weekend for a crucial fixture in the race for automatic promotion. There may be another 19 games after this weekend, but the winner of this match will take a huge amount of momentum into the coming weeks, and Darren Moore will be delighted to have the pick of a fully fit squad. Victory for…
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West Brom 1 Wigan Athletic 0 Darren Moore’s Baggies eased into the Fourth Round of the FA Cup thanks to a goal from Bakary Sako, his first for the club. That was enough to beat a Wigan side that rarely troubled debutant ‘keeper, Jonathan Bond. Bond was one of nine changes to the eleven that started the match at Ewood…
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Albion welcome Wigan Athletic to the Hawthorns on Saturday for the second time in ten days for an FA Cup tie that some would consider throwing to allow the squad to focus on the push for promotion. Wholesale changes to the starting eleven for cup ties is something that both the League Cup and, to a lesser extent, the FA…
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Blackburn Rovers 2 West Brom 1 Darren Moore’s team suffered a New Year’s Day hangover at Ewood Park as they went down to their first defeat since 3rd November. After a relatively even first half, Rovers scored two goals early in the second half and, while Rodriguez pulled a goal back from the spot after Harvey Barnes was brought down,…
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Defeat at Ewood Park brings the Baggies’ nine match unbeaten run to an end and they slip down to 4th place. However, Leeds United also lost which means that the gap to the top of the table remains at five points but a draw for Norwich means that Albion are now three points off the top two. In every successful…
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All Baggies fans will have been relieved when the news emerged yesterday that Jay Rodriguez’s red card had been rescinded.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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