Saturday 3pm Hull City look set to secure Sky Bet Championship safety in comfortable fashion having come up to the second tier as Sky Bet League One champions. The Tigers sit on 37 points from their 35 matches, 14 points clear of the relegation zone. Last weekend's welcome win at relegation-threatened Peterborough United put a stop to a run of six games without victory, a stretch which included worrying defeats to struggling Derby County and Barnsley. The boss, Shota Arveladze, is Georgia's all-time leading goalscorer and a former forward at Rangers, Ajax and Trabzonspor. The 49-year-old was appointed towards the end of January earlier this year and won his first match in charge of the club - a 2-0 triumph on home soil against Swansea City. Arveladze has previous coaching experience at AZ (Assistant), Kayserispor, Kasımpaşa S.K., Trabzonspor, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Pakhtakor Tashkent. The Baggies have won all of their last four games against the Tigers But not this Saturday. Good luck to Sir Steve but not this Saturday. City to win 2-1
It may well be so roberto But nothing wil detract from the brilliant job he did here Our most successful manager of all time. So far.
I sense a comfortable home win if we can attack them down both flanks. WBA started the season well but the truth is that they are a very poor side. 2-0 to us.
July 14 was officially registered as national Black Country Day because it is the anniversary of the invention of the world's first steam engine. The Newcomen Engine was created in the Black Country in 1712. Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, from Kingswinford in the Black Country, were among the founding fathers of America. The couple were early immigrants to the American colonies, going there in 1627 (or according to other accounts in 1637-39) possibly on a second crossing of the Mayflower, with four of their six children. They at first settled in Salem but moved to New York after being persecuted for being Quakers. Their descendants were said to include Winston Churchill and US president Richard Nixon. In addition, it's been said that other descendants include Solomon Southwick, who printed some of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence after it was adopted in 1776, and Alfred Southwick, who invented the electric chair as an alternative to hanging. The team were formed as the West Bromwich Strollers in 1879 by workers from the George Salters works, as they had to walk a few miles up the road to Wednesbury to buy their first football. . They became West Bromwich Albion after one year, in 1880. They're known as the throstles (a thrush) or baggies, but nobody really knows why. Bromwich means broom village, and there is no north east or south Bromwich, but the town is split into two constituencies, West Bromwich East and West Bromwich West. West Brom's ground, the Hawthorns, is the highest ground in England and it was the first British ground to use electronic turnstile counters. Ron Saunders managed both Albion and Birmingham in 1985/86 and both teams were ultimately relegated. West Brom won only four games over the whole season ... and their reserve team went down as well. Manager Jimmy Hagan once provoked defender Don Howe into leading a players' strike. Hagan was famous for upsetting his players: in his first managerial job at Peterborough, seven players had demanded to be put on the transfer list. At The Hawthorns, the players found Hagan's training routines boring. One winter morning, Howe and other players refused to train unless they were allowed to wear tracksuit bottoms. The team went on strike. Once peace had been restored, Howe left the club anyway. Full-back George Shaw played in West Brom's two Cup finals in the 1930s and remained active as a player-coach with Floriana of Malta until he was almost 50. He is thought to be the last England international born in the 19th century ... and for some reason he was nicknamed 'Teapot'. The Birmingham and District Cricket League is the oldest cricket league in the world.
He doesn’t do a bad job I have to say. not sure of the bedding situation which sounds better if you say it like Barry out of auf wiedersehn Birth place of Robert Plant and strangely enough Phil Lynott and the host of the best show on radio Frank skinner
They were known as the Baggies as the turnstiles used to be in each corner of the ground and during the match, some of the staff used to bring the bags of money to the main office for counting by walking around the pitch side and the saying at the time was 'here come the baggies' and the nickname grew.
