West Bromwich Albion v Portsmouth; The Hawthorns, Saturday 23rd August 2025, 3pm The Baggies welcome Portsmouth to the Hawthorns on Saturday afternoon looking for a third straight win to open their league campaign. That has only happened three times in the club’s history with the most recent being in 1997 when Ray Harford’s team made it three from three thanks…
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Albion opened their league campaign with two victories for the first time since 2017, and the first time in the second tier since 1997. On that occasion, Ray Harford was in charge at the Hawthorns and a 2-1 home win over Tranmere Rovers was followed up by a 3-2 victory at Gresty Road with Lee Hughes scoring a late double…
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Wrexham v West Bromwich Albion; Racecourse Ground, Saturday 16th August 2025, 12.30pm Despite the fact that Albion are Founder Members of the Football League and that Wrexham first played in Division Three (North) in it’s inaugural season in 1921, Saturday will see the first ever league meeting between the sides. For the media, however, I suspect Albion will be very…
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Ryan Mason started his tenure as Baggies boss with a victory thanks to Isaac Price’s first half goal. The last time that Albion kicked off their campaign with a home victory was in 2017 when Tony Pulis’s team beat Bournemouth 1-0 on the opening day thanks to a goal from Ahmed Hegazi. The Baggies followed that up with a 1-0…
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West Bromwich Albion v Blackburn Rovers; The Hawthorns, Saturday 9th August 2025, 3pm A new era at the Hawthorns kicks off on Sunday as Ryan Mason takes charge of his first competitive game in charge of the Baggies in what is his first permanent role as a head coach. One of Albion’s former head coaches, Valérien Ismaël, will be in…
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Victory on the final day of the season was not enough to change the fact that this season’s points tally is Albion’s worst in the second tier since the 1999/2000 campaign when Gary Megson managed to save the club from relegation to the third tier on the final day. The season was one of only five previous 46 game seasons…
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