West Bromwich Albion v Middlesbrough; The Hawthorns, Friday 16th January 2026, 8pm Albion’s newly appointed head coach, Eric Ramsay, has expressed a need for clarity as he prepares his players for the first of what he describes as a 20-game mini-season. That first match is against high-flying Middlesbrough albeit their won recent form leaves much to be desired. In my…
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As is often the case when Albion sack a head coach, I am conflicted. I always want our head coaches to succeed as that means that the club is succeeding, and I don’t want my club to be one that dispenses with head coaches at the first sign of a potential problem. On the other hand, allowing an apparently failing…
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The footballing gods certainly have it in for the Baggies at the moment. Albion largely dominated the game at Leicester City on Monday night but came up against a ‘keeper on a special night and lost to a 94th minute worldy. It would normally be put down to “one of those nights” but as a tenth successive away defeat, it…
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The opening day of 2026 saw Ryan Mason’s team fall to a ninth successive away league defeat, the worst run by any Albion side outside the top flight, and the club’s worst run since the 1972/73 campaign which ended in relegation for Don Howe’s team. A similar away run for Albion in the 1937/38 season also ended in relegation, while…
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The Baggies end 2025 just five points worse off than they ended 2024, and yet the feelings amongst the fan base seem to be much worse, despite the fact that twelve months ago, Carlos Corberán had just walked out on the club and a replacement had yet to be appointed. One notable point about the victory over QPR is that…
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A fourth defeat in five games, and a first at the Hawthorns since September, leaves the Baggies languishing in 16th place at the halfway point of the campaign. Ryan Mason’s team are getting very little luck at the moment, with another two decisions going against them in the defeat to Bristol City, but they are also not helping themselves with…
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