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Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom claims no-one expected to see West Brom fighting for Championship survival.
The Baggies are just two points above the drop zone after a chastening campaign, which has seen them dispense with Ryan Mason and Eric Ramsay.
Heckingbottom says West Brom will be fighting for their lives when they come to Deepdale on Saturday – and that is just what he wants.
He feels this
At the bottom of the Championship, strugglers Leicester and West Bromwich Albion both failed to win again.
Albion, who were beaten by Coventry, are winless in their past nine league games, and the Foxes, who drew 2-2 at Stoke, are winless in their past seven.
Both sides sit precariously at the bottom of the table. Leicester are currently 22nd, one place and one point behind the Baggies, with a four-point
Within a few weeks of shedding old antlers, stags start to grow new, larger horns. There is a somewhat poetic symmetry with that fact and Mansfield Town’s recent revival.
Five weeks ago, Nigel Clough’s side were staring down the barrel in the League One relegation zone in 21st after a run of six games without a win, five of which were defeats.
But how quickly things can change.
Since then,
First and foremost, I feel sorry for Tammer Bany. He’s a polite and pleasant lad and this has been a rotten first year in English football for him.
I spoke to him during the club’s pre-season training camp in Austria where he was looking forward to finally making an impression after struggling with minor injuries in his debut campaign in English football.
He’d made just four substitute appearances under
Most teams dream of having a bit of Brazilian flair on the wing, right?
For every era there’s a precocious Samba talent who lights up our TV screens and sets up residence in our hearts.
For me it was Ronaldinho. My Dad would probably point to Garrincha or Jairzinho while my nephews run around in Neymar shirts.
So, when they largely wrote the book on world-class wide men, it feels
West Bromwich Albion’s failure to reach this season’s Championship play-offs is “unacceptable”, says midfielder Jed Wallace.
The Baggies were in sixth place when Tony Mowbray replaced Carlos Corberan as head coach in January but a run of just five wins from his 18 games in charge ended their play-off hopes and Mowbray was sacked.
“It’s been massively disappointing – take the first five games out of the season and our