Championship

New-look Baggies facing their acid test

by
The LeaguePaper Team
7 August 2022

John Lyons - FLP Executive Editor

When Jed Wallace raced down the right flank and pulled the ball back for John Swift to clinically fire home West Brom’s equaliser at Middlesbrough last Saturday, Steve Bruce had every reason to look like he’d just won the lottery.
Having taken the Baggies reins in February following the miserable tenure of former Barnsley boss Valerien Ismael, the former Newcastle boss had hoped to ignite a play-off push in the closing months of the campaign.
It didn’t work out that way, though, and the Baggies limped home in a dispiriting tenth place. For a side that had b...

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