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Stoke 3 Albion 1
Saturday 22nd December 2007, 2:01PM GMT.
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16.53: Five minutes of injury time not enough for Albion and it ends 3-1.
16.33: Baggies get a goal back through Roman Bednar. Sub Albrechtsen provides the cross and Bednar nods home.
16.32: Mowbray replaces Cesar with Albrechtsen.
16.28: Fuller grabs his hat trick and surely there is no way back for Albion now. Great finish from the striker as he hits Albion on the break.
16.25: Albion are “committing almost their entire team forwards” says Steve in a bid to grab a goal.
16.12: Stoke holding Albion at bay so far in the second half.
16.07: Ishmael Miller comes on for Chris Brunt. and Kevin Phillips is on for Teixeira as Albion go 4,3,3 to try to get back in the game
15.45: Half time and Albion have a mountain to climb after the interval.
15.38: Fuller grabs his second as Albion look set to be deposed by Watford at the top.
15.29: Best opportunity so far for Albion. Roman Bednar firing over the bar when he was through on goal.
15.26: Albion are on top now and have created chances through Teixeira and Gera.
15.22: It’s taken some time but Albion are getting into their stride, according to Steve.
15.16: Canadabaggie is urging his team on from North America, is he the furthest afield Albion fan today, let us know below.
15.07: Contoversial goal according to our man at the game Steve Madeley. He says the whole Albion side appealed for offside and handball.
15.05: Stoke take the lead. Ricardo Fuller the scorer and it’s a nice move with Mamady Sidibe. The Stoke striker slips the ball past Dean Kiely and practically his first job since returning to the Albion goal is to pick the ball out of the net.
15.00: We are underway at the Britannia Stadium.
14.52: There seems to be plenty of confidence about from Albion fans. baggie9 says “Albion to win in style”. One thing is for sure if Stoke win it won’t be in style – is there an uglier team to watch, but they are in fourth place going into this one.
14.35: Baggies fans give us your thoughts on that exciting team news below, just leave the comments in the box. Quick thought, Hoefkens is up against his old club for the first time and will be in for a rough ride.
14.27: Two changes for the Baggies, Dean Kiely and Carl Hoefkens return from injury in place of Luke Steele and Jarod Hodgkiss. Miller, Morrison and Albrechtsen have all recovered from knee problems to be on the bench.
Albion: Kiely, Hoefkens, Pele, Cesar, Robinson, Greening, Koren, Brunt, Teixeira, Gera, Bednar.
Subs: Steele, Phillips, Miller, Albrechtsen, Morrison.
14.08: Today’s table makes happy reading and if Albion win today they will be top at the halfway mark in the Championship season. What an incentive.
14.00: The bogey of all bogeys is back. Can Albion deliver a powerful message to the Championship before Christmas.
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cummon me babies, lets start running away with the league now, show the rest of the league we mean business against the bully boys in the pop league n that were destined 4 the promised land. MERRY XMAS EVERY1!
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By all accounts thge whole team is in for a rough ride, but, can stoke really pose any more problems than any other team, I dont think so. Lets be confident and get behind the lads, as ever three points are there for taking
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baggies to win in style.check out the bench philips,miller morison and albritson strong squad and quaility.going up in style.
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come on stoke!!!
on my way to the wolves now!! to see my babies win!
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lets go YOU BAGGIES,its there for the taking.MERRY XMAS EVERYONE FROM CANADA
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So the great team who were now going to run away with the league are losing.
Suprise suprise
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careful w.w. youve yet to play
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FULLER!!!!! lol what is it with stoke and you lot, you are the arsenal of this division, but play stoke and you turn to pap!! every year they do this to you cant understand it, mind you most teams in the championship are our bogey team so not knocking you for it, but speaking to lads at work, you play watford,charlton etc “nah no problem” .you play barnsleys, bristol citys “easy a 4-5 nil” but stoke and they say “nah never beat them, id be happy with a point”
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Thought it was a bit risky to play Deano. Proving myself right
3-0 ! saft baggies
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great ! soon as I post we score. Here’s hoping again.
Come on me babbies !
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what a disgrace mobray needs to give them all a kick up the backside ready for bristol, common u baggies
to wolves wolves, hows that we can loose and still be 7 points clear of u common leicester
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‘One thing is for sure if Stoke win it won’t be in style – is there an uglier team to watch, but they are in fourth place going into this one’
Yes there is- ask Gera to look in the mirror
‘baggies to win in style.check out the bench philips,miller morison and albritson strong squad and quaility.going up in style.’
Thanx- shame we only can play you twice
Am getting bored of beating u useless excuse for a tear
Go on Potters
The Soi Cowboy, Bangkok laughing his ass off
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dont normally knock tm
but i cant understand why changed keepers ???
i know steele made a mistake last week but what will that do to his morale getting dropped
for me deano has been poor this season at times and this is were we need to invest in january
still we are still 2nd weve got to put it behind us and get 3 points boxing day
come on you baggies
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just knew we would come a cropper against stoke but will still win the leauge come on u baggies happy xmas & new year
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just knew we would lose today but will still win the league merry xmas & happy new year up the the baggies.
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come on leicester boing boing
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why why why why why??????????Why do they always beat us? Even when we are flying they still beat us.
Keep faith though – Still confident we will be there when it matters. Starting off with 3 points against Bristol on boxing day.
c’mon the baggies!!!
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Bogie team, what can i say!!? netha mind on-wards and up-wards…keep the faith! i fink most albion fans would of taken second in the league half way through the season. Still looking good tho, anotha big game next.. bristol on the same points. Confident we’ll bounce back!!BOING BOING!!!
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Be interesting to read the match report from the excuse and star on this one. Stoke to big, ugly, and scary for the Barcelona of the fizzy pop league.
Never mind with a large slice of luck you will not have to capitulate to the ugly relation as we will be playing our football in a higher league than you next season.
Boing Boing Splat, thanks for the points girls.
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Ladyboy 12 – try taking the mittens off before typing… now phuket !
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Soi, also had to laugh at that ‘ugly’ comment – there was certainly nothing ugly about any of our goals or style of play today. The best team ont the day took all 3 points.
Anyways, despite the condescension and the lack of respect shown by some of the Baggies with their comments, good luck with the rest of the season.
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Well done stoke.
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I understand that Mowbray is complaining to the FA about Fuller :) he alledgedly ignored repeated requests to let the Albion defenders???? have the ball and even worse kept putting the ball into back of the albion net.
As a result of having to pick the ball out of the net so often the 73 year old albion keeper has now got a bad back.
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soi cowboy what are you on!
5 mths to go, West Brom will be in the prem next season, soi cowboy will be visiting the donkey sanctuary on a fortnightly basis. Now go and get your carrots
in before xmas
BOING BOING
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We were crap again, But I had a feeling you’d lose, Stoke are a better team.
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where is hoppy-boggie, he’s first on the wolves board when we lose……got his ear to radio WM no doubt, west birmingham albion will still get promoted
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and the mighty potters win again… at least next time we play you, actually try and give us some competition …. 25 years and counting ….
up the mighty potters!
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we really need to start getting the ball in the box quicker when we are behind, not enough urgency,cant understand why we started with only one up front,must tighten up at the back conceeding to many goals,but we look good going forward we will be there come may,merry christmas boing boing
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Lets forget stoke and beat bristol
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