What with it being Sir Alex Ferguson's 1,500th and final game in charge of Manchester United, theatmospherewas always going to be a bit wappy at The Hawthorns on Sunday afternoon and, as onecursory glance at the scoreline will duly attest, things got a bit hectic.
West Brom vs Manchester United 5-5 Highlights 2013 Morrison Lukaku hat trick Mulumbu Kagawa Buttner Hernandez Van Persie Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter
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What with their side playing Manchester United at The Hawthorns on the final day of the season, a smattering of "entrepreneurial" West Brom fans are taking the opportunity to cash in on Sir Alex Ferguson's final farewell game(his 1,500th in charge) by flogging their tickets to United supporters for several times the face value.
Sir Alex Ferguson will step down as Manchester United manager at the end of the season and become a director at the club. A club statement confirmed rumours that Fergie was planning to announce his decision to bow out ahead of Sunday's match against Swansea. Sir Alex said: "The decision to retire is one I [.
West Bromwich Albion 5-5 Manchester United Premier League 19th May 2013
One imagines Sir Alex Ferguson wasn't expecting to see his side ship five goals in his final game in charge. However, on a crazy afternoon at the Hawthorns, a second-half hat-trick from Romelu Lukaku helped the Baggies to a creditable draw against the title-holders on a day which also saw Paul Scholes hang up his boots (again).
Norwich City 4-0 West Bromwich Albion Premier League 11th May 2013
Norwich secured their Premier League status for another season after a thumping 4-0 mauling of West Brom at Carrow Road.
Robert Snodgrass opened the scoring in the first-half against a feeble West Brom side, with second-half goals from Grant Holt, after a right clanger from Ben Foster, Gareth McAuley (OG) and Jonny Howson (with a superb curling effort) earning the home side a deserved victory against a Baggies side who looked utterly jaded and bereft of a spark.
Manchester City 1-0 West Bromwich Albion Premier League 7th May 2013
Last season's Premier League champs Man City were already pretty much assured of a place in next season's Champions League anyway, but against West Brom on Monday night, Roberto Mancini's men rubber-stamped their Big Cup berth.
West Bromwich Albion 2-3 Wigan Athletic Premier League 4th May 2013
He of the tricky dribbling and knee-high assaults, Callum MacManaman, proved the match-winner for Wigan on Saturday, with the wideman's late winner at the Hawthorns keeping the Latics' hopes of survival very much alive,
The Latics had twice found themselves to the Baggies, with Aruna Koné cancelling out Shane Long's first-half strike and then James McArthur leveling the scores again for Roberto Martinez's men after Gareth McAuley had put the Baggies ahead again on 50 minutes.
Southampton 0-3 West Bromwich Albion- Premier League 27th April 2013
A whopping three red cards were shown at St. Mary's on Saturday, in an eventful game which saw West Brom convincingly beat the Saints.
Marc-Antoint Fortuné scored from close-range early on to put the visitors in the driving seat with Romelu Lukaku superb in attack for Steve Clarke's men.
West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Newcastle United Premier League 20th April 2013
A draw away at West Bromwich Albion, by no means a bad result, still left Alan Pardew's Newcastle just six points clear of the drop-zone, having played a game more than 18th placed Wigan.
After a rather bad day at the office, where his side were well beaten by West Ham, West Brom midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu got a little teeny bit ikred by a rather harmless foul on him by Gary O'Neil, lashing the ball at the West Ham offender.
Not surprisingly, Mulumbu saw red for the moment of madness.
West Ham United 3-1 West Bromwich Albion Premier League 30th March 2013
Andy Carroll was in superb form at the Boleyn Ground on Saturday, bagging a brace and giving the Baggies' backline a rather torrid afternoon.
West Brom started the stronger but Carroll's opener on 16 minutes set the tone for the rest of the game, with Gary O'Neil doubling his side's advantage before the break.
Wayne Rooney will not play in today's match against West Bromwich Albion, the final game of Sir Alex Ferguson's managerial career.
While Rooney was benched for last week's game against Swansea, today he has been excused from traveling with United because his wife is in labor. Colleen is due to give birth to their second child.
If you missed any of the seven matches in the Premier League today, watch the match highlights below. While the games weren't as exciting as the final day of the Championship season, for good reason, there was still plenty to enjoy.
There was one match, in particular, that was my match of the day that opened up the entire battle to avoid relegation.
With no early or late kick-off, today's Premier League matches take on an unusual twist by having seven matches all played at once. It's a good day for multi-tasking, but a bad time for trying to savor every minute of the best matches.
The biggest match of the day is arguably Queens Park Rangers against Stoke City in a relegation battle at Loftus Road.
On the 36th minute of Arsenal's 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, Tomas Rosicky committed a foul. It was his third of the game, a challenge which earned him a yellow card and Mark Lawrenson, pundit for Match of the Day, singled it out as the first time he has seen Rosicky tackle.
This is obviously not true (and all Lawrenson has to do is perform a quick search on YouTube to find a showreel of his greatest moments, which includes passes, dribbles and slide tackles aplenty and this entertaining duel with Cristiano Ronaldo).
West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Arsenal Premier League 6th April 2013
That injury-prone imp Tomas Rosicky was the star of the show for Arsenal at the Hawthorns on Saturday, bagging a brace as the Gunners kept the heat on Chelsea and Spurs in the race for Europe.
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West Brom vs Arsenal 2013 Highlights 1-2 Morrison penalty Mertesacker red card Rosicky Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter West Bromwich Albion vs Arsenal ( WBA Arsenal VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- West Brom vs Arsenal 1-2 ( Morrison pen/ Rosicky*2) Hawthorns, West Bromwich- 6 April, 2013- [.
Have you noticed a spring in the Gooners step since winning in Munich? Suddenly this new Arsenal is not the shoddy bunch of lazy artisans just trotting around and picking up money for nothing (and chicks for free), No, this is a team focussed and able to get a Top 4 spot possibly even top 3.
Have you noticed a spring in the Gooners step since winning in Munich? Suddenly this new Arsenal is not the shoddy bunch of lazy artisans just trotting around and picking up money for nothing (and chicks for free), No, this is a team focussed and able to get a Top 4 spot possibly even top 3.
The interesting thing about most statistics is that they often reveal remarkable facts that you otherwise wouldn't know. At least the ones that are published do.
This week, we've looked at the footballers who have the best win percentages for their Premier League club as well as which Premier League clubs have the squads with the youngest average age.
Which player has the best win percentage at every Premier League club that has played in the top flight of England from 1992-2013?
Some of the findings may surprise you. Out of the 45 teams who have played in the Premier League since it was founded, there are memorable names from the history of British football with greats such as Alan Shearer.
It was another action packed day in the Premier League with 22 goals in 8 goals for an average of 2.75 goals per match. Despite the fact that the exciting matches today were sandwiched between a boring early kick-off and an equally dire late match, there was still plenty to savor including some sensational goals.
In my weekly column on SWOL, I take a look back at the weekend's English Premier League and domestic cup action and the talking points that it throws up, as well as any significant news related to English football at large.
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Despite there being one nil-nil draw in the Premier League today, there were still 14 goals scored in the other five matches played for an average goals per game of 2.33. Compare that to 7 games in MLS today where ... Continue reading...
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Watch out England. There are reports inThe Mailtonight that Hull City are very interested in making a move for out-of-sorts West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie, so don't be too surprised if you see the Nigerian jumping into his land rover and heading up the motorway to Kingston-Upon-Hull.
Who would have thought that a game between Wigan Athletic and Swansea City will create so much interest? If Wigan beats Swansea today, then there will be eight Premier League sides scrambling to try to get out of the relegation zone. Not only will supporters for Wigan and Swansea be paying close attention to the result of this game, but so will neutral fans as well as supporters of Newcastle, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Norwich, Stoke, Fulham and Southampton.
With Southampton all but safe in the Premier League for another season, the newly promoted club can now look towards the future and plan ahead for next season's expectations. Prior to the 3-0 loss against West Bromwich Albion, there were talks about possible qualification for Europe through the Fair Play league, but the two red cards shown to Danny Fox and Gaston Ramirez shattered those prospects.
Bloody hell! On a Saturday where I thought that most of the matches were dead rubbers, the Premier League came alive today with red cards, a thrashing, brilliant end-to-end football, a club escaping the relegation zone, a side moving closer to Europe and much more.
Here are the highlights from Premier League Saturday, gameweek 35 that were played on April 27, 2013.
If you look at the league tablehow many teams would actually say they've had a good season?
Then ask the same question for "not big" teams.
There are two: West Bromwich Albion, who had a good year but also a big striker on loan from Chelsea; Swansea, who have made some very clever moves in the transfer market and are generally admired throughout the land.
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Man City vs West Brom 2013 Highlights 1-0 Dzeko Goal Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Man City vs West Brom 2013 ( Manchester City WBA VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Man City vs West Brom 1-0 ( Dzeko) Etihad Stadium, Manchester- 7 May, 2013- 19.
Highlights from this afternoon's game between West Bromwich Albion and Newcastle United from the Hawthorns. I will be adding better highlights, post match interviews and a video of the whole game when they are available. Score and Goalscorers. West Bromwich Albion 1 (Jones 64), Newcastle United 1 (Gouffran 8,).
Everton captain Phil Neville has delivered a snub to Liverpool's Footballer of the Year candidate Luis Suarez by not even nominating the striker for a place in the PFA Team of the Season. Suarez is the Premier League's top scorer with 22 goals, has struck 29 times in all competitions and is one of the favourites for the individual award, along with Tottenham's Gareth Bale and Manchester United's Robin van Persie.
