As good as Manchester City were at the Hawthorns on Monday night, Tony Pulis’s team selection made their task far easier than it should’ve been. The decision to omit Claudio Yacob from the starting line-up was the stand-out mistake, although it was by no means the only questionable decision that the Baggies’ manager made when he picked his first eleven.…
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The fixture computer has given Albion a tough start with last season’s top two visiting the Hawthorns for the Baggies’ first two home matches of the season. Both of those games are televised starting with Manchester City on Monday evening.
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We’re on the eve of another Premier League season, Albion’s sixth in succession and their tenth in the fourteen seasons since promotion to the Premier League was first won in 2002. Back in the dark days of the early nineties, top flight football seemed a distant memory and, while most Baggies fans don’t exactly take it for granted, the number…
Read MoreWell, it was not quite the finish to the season that Baggies fans would’ve hoped for, but 44 points ranks the season as the fourth best in Albion’s Premier League nine-season history which is somewhat better than could’ve been expected in early April.
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The Premier League season comes to a close on Sunday and for the second time in four years, West Bromwich Albion and Arsenal meet on the final day. In 2011, Arsenal needed a win at the Hawthorns to secure their Champions League place, and a howler from Baggies’ stand-in ‘keeper Martin Fulop handed the points to the Gunners in a…
Read MoreAfter an impressive, if unexpected, win over champions, Chelsea, Albion still have a chance of equalling their second-best Premier League points haul of 47.
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