By Brian Sears 30 November 2012 Last weekend, we predicted in these pages why West Brom might enjoy their match at ‘soft touch’ Sunderland, and they duly won 4-2 to continue their Champions League qualification form. A week on and with a midweek hiccup against Swansea behind them, the Baggies face a barometer of their […]

By Brian Sears 23 November 2012  West Bromwich Albion’s remarkable start to the season has earned them 23 points from their first 12 Premier League games – the best start they have ever had in the revamped top division by far. In six previous seasons in the Prem, their best tally after 12 games before […]

By Sportingintelligence 17 June 2011 Premier League champions Manchester United will begin the 2011-12 league season against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on 13 August. The fixtures were released at 9am on Friday. Chelsea, runners-up in 2010-11, start at Stoke, while Arsenal begin next season on the road too, at Newcastle. Manchester City will […]

By Brian Sears 15 April 2011 As recently as the last week of February, there were still three Premier League clubs against whom West Bromwich Albion had never gained a single point during any of their spells in the revamped top division: Stoke, Liverpool and Chelsea. (West Brom’s full Premier League record, by opponent, is […]

By Brian Sears 1 April 2011 West Bromwich Albion and Stoke both seek to break Premier League ‘ducks’ on Saturday when they respectively host Liverpool and Chelsea. As you can tell from our detailed table below, West Brom are playing their fifth Premier League season and they have gained at least one point against all […]

By Brian Sears 4 November 2010 While one of this Sunday’s ‘major’ Premier League games features table-toppers Chelsea away at lower-half opposition, the truly big game between a pair of genuine top-four aspirant clubs is surely West Bromwich Albion at home to Manchester City. Removing tongue from cheek, it is certainly a contrast of wealth […]

By Brian Sears 20 September 2010 The three teams promoted to the Premier League this season – Newcastle, Blackpool and West Bromwich Albion – have made the most successful start to a top-flight season of any group of newcomers, collectively, since the League’s first season in 1992-93, analysis by sportingintelligence shows. (See table below). That […]

By Keira Daley 29 July 2010 West Bromwich Albion have today become the latest Premier League club to announce an official ban on vuvuzelas within their ground for the forthcoming season. In a statement on the club’s website, Mark Miles, Albion’s head of facility operations and development, said: “Although vuvuzelas are very popular in South Africa, […]

. Norwegian sports writer Andreas Selliaas grew up in a village south of Oslo in the 1970s, watching English football from afar and playing make believe in the street. His friends would quarrel over who would be Kevin Keegan and who would be Kenny Dalglish. Selliaas wanted to be neither. He wanted to be Bob […]

  * By Jonnie Baker 6 December 2013 Anticipation is obviously reaching fever pitch over the unspeakably complicated group-stage draw for the 2014 Fifa World Cup (TM), which hasn’t been obsessing too many people at all. Certainly not to the extent that anyone would come up with a draw simulator, like the one linked here, […]