Saturday, 28 April 2018

Dark clouds over the Black Country as West Brom await their relegation fate | Stuart James

West Brom’s drop to the Championship is likely to be confirmed on Saturday and with neighbours Wolves heading the other way it is hard times for all at the Hawthorns

Adrian Chiles has been contemplating his beloved West Bromwich Albion’s seemingly inevitable relegation from the Premier League, trying to explain what it all means in the context of football tribalism in the region and picturing the nightmare scenario that would deliver a few more painful blows.

“There was a famous year when we overhauled Wolves after being 11 points behind them and ended up getting promoted to the Premier League and they didn’t,” Chiles says, referring to the 2001-02 season. “I remember [the former Led Zeppelin singer] Robert Plant saying at the time that as a Wolves fan he didn’t dare go out unless it was under cover of night. Well, I think we’re feeling exactly the same way now. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. And don’t forget we’re facing the perfect storm, where Wolves have gone up, Villa could go up and Middlesbrough, managed by [Tony] Pulis, could go up as well. Then we’d have a triple kick in the Niagaras, as Gary Megson might have called it.”

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