Relegation for this season’s Baggies was finally confirmed with defeat at Arsenal, but three years ago, a 2-2 draw with Liverpool kept Darren Moore’s Albion alive a little longer, despite having fewer points that Allardyce’s team at the same stage. In Albion’s worst ever season, 1985/86, game 35 saw Ron Saunders record his first victory as Albion boss as an…
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Sam Allardyce takes his side to the Emirates on Sunday evening in the knowledge that Albion will be playing football in the Championship next season. The big unanswered question is whether Allardyce will be at the helm when the Baggies kick off their promotion challenge in August. Mathematically, of course, Albion can still escape. Four wins would lift them onto…
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With just one win in twelve games at Arsenal in the Premier League era, the Baggies have a pretty dreadful record in that particular part of north London in recent years. Even if you look back to Albion’s more successful eras, Highbury was never a happy hunting ground – not only did the Baggies win just ten of 54 matches…
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Of all the games in the run up to the Great Escape, game 34 is perhaps the one that is most forgotten. Bryan Robson, who had started his tenure at Albion with a 2-1 home defeat to his former club, returned to the Riverside on 23rd April 2005 with the Baggies in their best form of the season having drawn…
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West Brom 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 As Black Country Derbies go, it was entertaining but the absence of fans in the stadium meant that it lacked the intense atmosphere that would be usual for games between these fierce rivals. While the visiting fans would have been taunting their hosts about their impending relegation, Baggies fans would have been able to…
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Albion may have failed to register successive league doubles against Wolves, but the point means that the Baggies’ unbeaten record against their Black Country rivals will extend to beyond ten years, and their home unbeaten record to more than 25 years by the time the clubs meet again. That does, of course, assume that Albion don’t host Wolves again before…
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