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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:00:37 GMT
Sh*t or bust really, innit. 7 points adrift but a chance to make up ground on Stoke and Palace, both of whom have tough games later today and on Monday. Could this really be Pardew's last outing at the Hawthorns?
West Brom: Foster, Nyom, Dawson, Hegazi, Gibbs, Brunt, Livermore, Krychowiak, Burke, Phillips, Rondon
Subs: Myhill, Robson-Kanu, Yacob, McClean, Rodriguez, McAuley, Field
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell, Iborra, Ndidi, Mahrez, Gray, Okazaki, Vardy.
Subs: Jakupovic, Dragovic, Fuchs, James, Diabaté, Albrighton, Iheanacho.
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Post by MrFurious on Mar 10, 2018 15:05:53 GMT
Kennedy just puts Toon ahead v Southamptom
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Post by MrFurious on Mar 10, 2018 15:11:51 GMT
WB ahead! Swans down to 10
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:12:50 GMT
I can see some empty seats behind the Albion goal but the home crowd is in reasonable vocal form. The usual Hawthorn mantra has been going since kick-off. I can't make out the words but it's very repetitive, as if the crowd is trying to wash the players' brains. But it's the visitors who have run the opening seven or eight minutes here. And Alan Pardew's hair has never looked so white, to my eyes. Oh look at that, a poor back pass by Phillips almost lets Vardy in except for Foster's quick reaction. They can't afford to be doing that sort of thing. But wait, against the run of play Brunt plays a long ball down the right flank to Burke (was it?) whoever it was he played a delightfully measured ball into the Leicester area where Rondon connected with it and dinked it home from close range. Foxes caught quick-break and it's one-nothing on '8.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:19:17 GMT
WB ahead! Swans down to 10 Yes, bad challenge by Ayew on Hogg apparently. What a time to go down to ten but it could let Huddy in nicely eh.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:26:04 GMT
Nearly two-nothing as Krychowiak sees his 22 yard smasher palmed onto the upright by a flailing Schmeichel on '17. Leicester doing all the patient footwaork but it's Albion who are all masked up and waiting for the smash and grab. Wait, oh what a finish from Vardy! The ball was lofted forward from the halfway line by Mahrez on '21 and Vardy connected for the left footed volley just inside the area and guided it skillfully past Foster. I don't know which was finer, the assist from Mahrez or the pot from Vardy. One-all.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:33:00 GMT
What's Pardew doing now? It looks like he's signing autographs for the crowd. But no, he's merely exchanging bits of paper with his second-in-command John Carver. They must have a plan going here.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 15:52:18 GMT
It's half time and one-all. Albion have done better this last twenty or so minutes. Vardy has potted a fine volley but there was little need to celebrate by parading himself in front of the bedraggled Albion fans, almost taunting them. Iou'd think they had enough sh*t on their plates without all that. Anyway Vardy copped for a Yellow later for a bad challenge. He also had a pot disallowed for offside, which he was. But forget Vardy, it's all about Albion now. What can they bring to the second half? A point is of little use at the moment, they've got to find the key to unlocking the treasure chest containing three precious points. If not, you have to say it's all over with the Fat Lady well and truly screaming the bast*rd Hawthorns Stadium down.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:06:16 GMT
They come out with 'The Liquidator' again playing on the tannoy, you know - that poppy reggae song they've been playing for years at Stamford Bridge. Apparently Albion fans sung some naughty words to it a few seasons ago and it got banned. But now they've been playing it for a while. Just seems a bit odd that two teams have the same match day tune. I hate it. Get rid. Let the Albion have it.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:16:34 GMT
Dear oh dear, Matty Phillips! The free-kick on '55 just outside the area, eight yards from the byline. The chip into the area - where Rondon, Brunt etc were waiting - was the required ball but Phillips inexplicably powers it clean over the lot of them and into the crowd, way on the other side of goal. Christ Almighty, what a waste.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:22:48 GMT
After a good build-up Iheanacho fed Mahrez inside the box and Mahrez delivered a seductive chip to deceive Foster and put the Foxes 1-2 up on the hour. This is desperate now for Albion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 16:26:24 GMT
Hope this one stays put now. A fairly bleak set of results on the predictor so far, this could be a forty-point redeemer.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:29:18 GMT
Hope this one stays put now. A fairly bleak set of results on the predictor so far, this could be a forty-point redeemer. Yes, Leicester have made a less than adventurous couple of subs just now which suggests that Claude Puel is looking to lock up the points without further ado.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:38:53 GMT
That's it, mateys. Iheanacho on '79 powers a headed drive past Foster and there's nothing anyone can do about it. The usual scenes follow : people leaving in droves, 'sacked in the morning' taunts, a general air of depression. As I look around, the stadium is becoming less of a stadium and more of a bone yard. Only the Leicester fans are reminding me it is a sporting arena.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 16:41:20 GMT
Ffs. Sounds like a party at the London Stadium.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:45:09 GMT
Ffs. Sounds like a party at the London Stadium. Welcome back Harty Party lol. Dear me. That's another one that's cost me. 20 points as it stands. I was hoping for the 1-2 at WBA too.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:47:42 GMT
At least there'll be no booing at full time. They've all gone home, man.
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Post by staggerstag on Mar 10, 2018 16:53:52 GMT
Iborra's head connects with the injury time corner for 1-4. Think of the biggest female singer you can imagine, then multiply her size by ten, then imagine her singing so f***ing loud your ears literally begin to bleed. That is what has happened here for Albion. There is absolute desolation all around me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 19:53:24 GMT
Going down! Party time!
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Post by Father Jack on Mar 10, 2018 19:55:37 GMT
Has he gone yet?
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