‘West Brom’ Archives
Life outside the Premier League
More highlights from the depths of the English leagues, i.e. The Championship and League One. Marvel at the expoits of former league champions like Leeds and Derby, wonder at the majesty of European giants such as Nottingham Forest: Sheffield Wednesday 4 - 0 Scunthorpe Richard Wood opened the scoring after six minutes and Jermaine Johnson [...]
Life outside the Premier League
That's right, lovely people, life really does exist outsides the razzle dazzle of that there Premier League. In fact, I'm thinking of proposing a breakaway League and excluding any Prem teams from joining. We'll see how long it takes UEFA to discount the closeds shop the current top division would become and kick them out of European competitions. [...]
Are Newcastle United a joke?
How bad can it get at Newcastle? Personally, I'm way past having any sympathy for the buggers. Soccer Saturday have given a damning verdict, which makes for interesting viewing, especially when you look at how quickly things have gone pear-shaped during the Mike Ashley regime in the opening montage: Soccer Saturday: Are Newcastle United a [...]
Football was better in the past: 1970-71
Leeds United were the predominant team of the era, although Everton had finished the previous season ahead of them as League champions and Chelsea had beaten them in the Cup final. England had, of course, handed over the World Cup to Brazil despite being the best team in Mexico. Man Utd were already in rapid decline, but give George Best the ball [...]
Relegation amble sees Newcastle go down with Boro and WBA
No, because they turned it down before Shearer got the job. Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle Alan Shearer believes Newcastle need a complete overhaul after their relegation, i.e get rid of all these muppets and sign others on smaller contracts. The Toon’s relegation fate seemed etched in stone after Damien Duff was hugely unlucky to divert a [...]
Liverpool and Chelsea win
West Brom 0 - 2 Liverpool Rafael Benítez sent no word of congrats to Sir Alex, claiming, 'there were a lot of things' Sir Alex Ferguson said this season that he did not like. What a pillock. Back to the game...The Baggies looked decent in the opening exchanges of the match, but all their good work was undone when a dreadful mistake by [...]
Premier League Saturday
West Ham 0 - 3 Liverpool It was all too easy. For the first, Fernando Torres slipped a perfect through-ball into Steven Gerrard after just 90 seconds, who scored with ease past a stranded Green. West Ham then had Luis Boa Morte to blame for conceding a second, the Portuguese firebrand fouled Torres in the box, Steven Gerrard’s penalty was [...]
Saturday in the Premier League
All of today's thrills and spills from England's wealthiest league... Middlesbrough 0 - 2 Manchester United Captain for the day (fair enough), PFA favourite (OK, you won't find many professional footballers who begrudge him the honour) and occasional player Ryan Giggs claimed the opener at the Riverside in the 25th minute with a left-footed [...]
Saturday in the Premier League
West Ham 0 - 1 Chelsea The Irons came close to breaking the deadlock just before the interval but John Obi Mikel cleared Matthew Upson’s header off the line. The Blues moved ahead on 54 minutes, big Salomon Kalou converting a Lampard cross. West Ham had the chance to draw level from the spot, but Petr Cech managed to turn Mark Noble’s [...]
Manchester City 4-2 West Bromwich Albion
Robinho and Elano impressed for once as Manchester City saw off West Brom, both in this match and as a Premier League team. Despite the performances of the usually underwhelming Brazilians, it was once again Steven Ireland who was the linchpin in an early move that saw the bald headed midfielder deliver a cross that Robinho crashed home on the [...]
