Albion goalkeeping coach Joe Corrigan will end his 42 years in football tomorrow with one final trip on his personal “road to hell”.

The legendary 60-year-old will be involved in the final match of his career tomorrow when the Baggies take on Blackburn at Ewood Park. And Corrigan and Co will take an appropriate journey to Lancashire along the road that has forced him to hang up his boots.

“The M6 has been a massive part of my life and I don’t like the M6, even though it heads north,” joked the Manchester City great.

“But travelling itself is tough. It’s not just the M6. It’s travelling on a coach and going to different parts of the country.

“I’ve done it now as a coach for 20-odd years and as a player for 20 years and I think this is the right time to stop it. I have just got fed up of the travelling up and down the M6.

“I feel like I am doing a party political broadcast on behalf of all M6 users when I say ‘widen it’.

“But it takes its toll and I have really felt it this year, even though we haven’t played as many games as we did last year.

“It’s been a harder year and I think that’s because the demands of the Premier League are incredible and you’ve got to be 150 per cent in everything that you do to get a sniff in the Premier League.

“And that is why the top teams will always be at the top, because they’ve got the financial clout to do something about it and the money is not coming down to our level as it should do.”

Corrigan has spent four years with the Baggies but has decided to call time on his illustrious career 42 years after making the first of his 476 appearances for City.

He insists he has no regrets over his decision. But he admits leaving on the back of an Albion relegation will leave a sour taste at the final whistle tomorrow.

“I’ll be feeling empty because of the fact we didn’t avoid relegation and I am really sad we didn’t,” he said. “I think the football we’ve played this year didn’t deserve to go down but I’m also a great believer that the final league table tells the right story.

“Manchester United are the best team in the country and we are statistically the worst because we have let more goals in and we have not scored as many as we should have. But between boxes I think we have held our own with the top teams.

“I won’t go back on my decision but the number of people who have wished me luck in what I am going to do after football and the number of voices who have said ‘don’t go’ has been really nice.

“But I have made my decision and I think it’s the right decision.”