Arsenal 2 Albion 3
Saturday 25th September 2010, 5:10PM BST.
Albion pulled off their greatest ever Premier League win as three second-half goals stunned Arsenal.
Peter Odemwingie, Gonzalo Jara and Jerome Thomas struck in the space of 24 magical minutes in the second-half to give the Baggies a stunning victory at the Emirates Stadium.
It was no more than they deserved and they should have led 1-0 at half-time, with Manuel Almunia in the Arsenal goal saving a weak penalty from Chris Brunt.
But the Baggies left their hosts shell-shocked with an onslaught after the break, taking a 3-0 lead before Samir Nasri handed the Gunners hope with a 75th-minute consolation strike.
Nasri scored again in stoppage time to set up a nervous end to the game but the Baggies held on.
It was Albion’s first win at Arsenal since 1983 and their first ever away win in the Premier League against one of the division’s established ‘big four.’
Albion made a bright start with Jerome Thomas making a jinking run down the left and Chris Brunt bursting with purpose down the right.
But neither move brought a chance and the Baggies were soon under pressure and riding their luck as Arsenal hit the woodwork.
A cross from Emmanuel Eboue found Andrei Arshavin at the far post and the Russian’s flick deflected off Chris Brunt and hit the upright.
Brunt then made a crucial block to deflect Arshavin’s follow-up.
The Baggies had to weather a significant spell of Arsenal pressure after that, with Samir Nasri dictating play from the Gunners’ midfield.
But Albion were handed a glorious chance to snatch the lead on 37 minutes, when Brunt’s threaded through-ball found Odemwingie, who was sent flying by Almunia just inside the box.
Referee Michael Oliver pointed straight to the spot and booked Almunia, but Brunt’s tame penalty was saved by the goalkeeper to his right.
Albion should have led at the break but they were in a shock 2-0 lead within seven minutes of the restart.
First Arsenal old-boy Thomas skinned Bacary Sagna on the Arsenal right, cut into the box and pulled the ball back for the unmarked Odemwingie to slide the ball home.
That sent the travelling Baggies fans into raptures and they were still pinching themselves when it got even better less than three minutes later.
A clever backheel by Brunt was too good for Gael Clichy and it sent Jara clear into the box.
His shot at the near post should still have been dealt with by Almunia, but the goalkeeper made a complete hash of his attempted save and the ball squirmed in.
A nervous finish looked in store with the Gunners piling pressure on the Baggies goal.
But, almost unbelievably, the Baggies put clear daylight between themselves and their hosts with 17 minutes to go.
Brunt beat Almunia to a Morrison through-ball, reached the byline and then turned inside to fire across the face of goal for Thomas to finish with his right foot.
But the hosts threw themselves a lifeline in the 75th minute, seconds after Nasri had rattled the crossbar after a weaving run.
Arsenal found Nasri again and his footwork took him past Jonas Olsson and allowed him to curl a shot past goalkeeper Scott Carson and inside the far post.
Albion nerves increased when the officials signalled five minutes of added time.
And, a minute into that period, Arshavin turned on the edge of the box and fed Nasri to make it 3-2.
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Get in, played 3 of the so called big 4 away and still 5th in the Premier League.
BOING BOING.
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Absolutely fantastic performance and result today. So proud of the team today. Boing Boing!!
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Wolves fan here, nothing to say other than magnificent result, congratulations.
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OMGsh! What a historic win and greatly deserved with their performance today. Let’s not get carried away we’ve a long way to go but let’s celebrate this win and just think – the best is yet to come – can’t wait.
Boing Boing
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BOING BOING BAGGIES.Well done watched on the stream fantastic display.This team is going places.THE FUTURE BRIGHT IT’S BLUE AND WHITE.
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Wolves till I die but great result nice to see the Arsenal ficle fans leaving with 30mins to go–Watched on Italian Tele–Crazy Dave
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Got to say, well done you Baggies.Winning away to a top 4 side is Superb!Into the top 5! Hope its your last win of the season though!and your relegated again
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Fantastic result! can you imagine the job the editors of MOTD will have hiding the result :) bet they only show Arsenals two goals! and wonder what the muppets will say? no doubt all about how bad the gooners were!
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What a great and well deserved victory. West Brom is arguably the hottest team in England (maybe the planet) at the moment and I am extremely proud of their effort since the loss at Chelsea. I watched the game here in the US and wish I could be with all of the Baggie supporters celebrating. Enjoy the win and let’s keep The Baggie Freight Train rolling. All aboard, next stop is Bolton. I can’t wait to read Sir Terry’s take, always makes me laugh, aye boing boing!
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By far The best week as a baggie for long time.in dream land.RDM fantastic TEAM brilliant infact well done all the team at the Hawthorns.NO FEAR BOING BOING
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P.S. down side my wife is a Arsenal fan gone into a sulk oh well
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11 men get a man of the match award today, great team performance.
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Well done Sandwell.
You have got to be happy with that. A Big pat on the back from the WOlfies.
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Fabulous result. Well done!
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The top of the prem is now starting to take a familiar look about it as all the top teams start to find their true positions…Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City, West Brom….
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Obviously enjoyed the 3rd goal going in, but for me, the best bit when watching the game streamed on the web was when Tchoyi had the ball in front of the Albion fans with 85 mins on clock and 3-0 up just more or less standing still with an Arsenal defender trying in vain to get the ball off him, the defender got frustrated and pulled Tchoyi to the ground with the Albion fans in the background noisely laughing and cheering the award of the free-kick – Class!
Just loved what that one moment represented in terms of how far we have come as a team!
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Fair play to you guys that is a fantastic result!
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Am i dreaming?, did we just beat Arsenal 3-2 at the Emirates? I can’t believe it! So proud, what a week to be a Baggie! Blues, Man City and Arsenal in a week? PMSL!!!
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Shocked, but fair play!
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Relegation battle? I don’t think so. This result sends out a message………we are no whipping boys. We are a quality team who play with no fear – we should have taken 3points from Anfield too Well done Albion – pure class boys!!!!
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over the ######## moon ,lets not get carried away just yet, lets just enjoy it , but the more i see of this team and manager i get more convinced . the ones who slagged peace and ashworth off come on here now they aint got much wrong the last few years . does anyone remember the last time a little midfield genius got us prometed we qualified for europe , did i say lets not get carried away sorry boing boing
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I think that JEREMY PEACE should be a contented man at the moment and I would like to thank him for giving us the best result for many years and for making us fans feel very proud of our club and enjoying life at the moment. It was he that unexpectedly appointed Di Matteo and promoted Dan Ashworth so the Chairman has to take great credit. Our club is in safe hands. Oh, and by the way, I’m now even more convinced that Nicky Shorey is the best left back we’ve had since Derek Statham!!!!
Are the great times we had under Ron Atkinson returning? I hope so.
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Great performance, great result – get in!
To the tune of go your own way by fleetwood mac -
“Peter Odemwingie, O-dem-wing-ie!”
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fantastic,brilliant result…this team is growing stronger by the week.there is no doubt this is our best prem team ever.well balanced and full of quality in depth and a great manager in rdm..your doing us proud baggie boys keep up the good work .get this message prem teams we wont be rolling over for no one.bring on the dings…PLAYING SUCH LOVELY FOOTBALL THE DI MATTEO WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE.OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YES..
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im not getting carried away but we could be going to wembley,
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wenger much go now, we need shay given and pat bk, or we wil win nout for years
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Be afraid be very afraid,i said on facebook today on the west bromwich albion fans page that there is a storm comming and it is getting closer and closer n louder and louder and the none believers had better take cover,can you here it ”boing boing”BOING BOING BOING BOING
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Now and again football throws up these one in a lifetime results.
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Can’t wait to see the Grumpy Gooners at work on Monday. I think you can safely assume they didn’t see that coming. Fantastic result, great win boys get in. Can’t wait to stuff the Vile! Boing Boing and St Peter is the real deal!
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all together to the tune of blue moon, one half….we only need one half!!! what a game, truewolves where are you this week, bring on the wolves. How long before the Laughinwolf and his ilk tell us where we are going wrong, or that Arsenal didn’t put out a proper team?. Did any one catch the phone in on Beacon after the game, some poor sod had a bet on us to win 3-1, at 250-1!!!! talk about being happy and gutted at the same time!
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YAHHOOOOOOOOOO!! CHAAAAARRRGGE!
They won’t be a-laffin at uz no more -
We are QUALITY now throughout the squad.
Great work by Di Matteo and HIS team -
keep it up.
Oooohh AAArrrrrr!
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Fantastic win for you Braggies, love yer new striker.
Congrats, a great day for West Midlands football, I hope we can make it a double when we play them
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I went thro evry emotion in my life wot a team please j p sign the best manager since big ron on a long contract an the coaches robbie we luv yo
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My computer picture was everywhichway for 20 minutes, but eventually we got there via Sopcast. Wished I’d started there as it was so good years ago. My finger nails are no more, but wasn’t it just worth it? We shall be watched more carefully now by the opposition but somehow, I don’t think that will matter too much as long as they play fair. I said a few posts back, we are seeing the re-emergence of West Bromwich Albion. We must now close ranks at the top and keep this managing, coaching, playing staff together, regardless of who comes hunting. The team spirit is superb, they work, tackle and fight for each other in a way I haven’t seen in YEARS! The subs can’t wait to get on to show their input. I am aglow with optimism.
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I think I saw Sir Terence in the crowd. WOW!
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Fantastic result – A marvelous all round team performance. Mulumbu was incredible again. Nice to see Wenger take defeat so gracefully. Did he shake RDM’s hand? I didnt see him! Is this the most complete Baggies side since Statham, Batson Wile, Robertson, Cunningham, Robson, Regis etc? We showed on Wednesday that we have strength in depth by competing against City’s ‘Champions League Squad’ maybe’s, Millner and De-Silva alone were £50M+ subs called into the fray.
Will the pundits start to give us some respect now? Will they F**k! As per (sbaggieboy) above, lets see what the MoD ‘experts’ say. How bad Arsenal were? missing top players? hit the woodwork? The hi-lights will be trimmed to show a very lucky Baggies win no doubt, with all the play going the Gunners way. That is what we have come to expect from the One-Eyed Cockney led media.
Who cares. Lets keep levelled, our feet on the ground. It’s a marathon not a 100 meters. Keep the Baggies train rolling; fill those empty seats at the Hawthorns. Lets force them to take notice !!
“In Pastures Green” – Boing .. Boing !!
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15 boy from the REAL black country,burnley fans was saying the same thing last season and look what happened to them,,,bong bong,,,WE ARE WOLVES,,,ILK
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been on nights, if i am dreaming noone wake me up
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Im a Wolves fan, but congratulations on beating Arsenal today! What a win for you lot!!
The difference is, your manager is more attack minded than ours.
Whereas McCarthy likes taking the lead then defending, rather than going out and scoring more!!
WE ARE WOLVES :)
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HHAHHAAH BAGIES 1 WIN IN 27 YRS KEEP IT IN YOUR DIARY YOU CAN PLAY 30 TIMES NEVA GONNA WINN AGAIN
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What can I say ?!!! Absolutely fantastic result for you ! Respect !!! Nuff said
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Well done lads!!!
over the moon!!!
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Gentlemen
Congratulations on a fantastic result.
Well Done, enjoy the ride.
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Nothing to say except well done baggies… Fair Play!
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Congratulations, unexpected but I thought you may have got a point.
Maybe the elastic will be broken this time.
Wolves fan
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Speachless. Beat the Gooners in their own back yard. I wonder what messers Lineker, Hansen, Shearer will say on MOTD. im gooner (sorry typing error) gonna be glued.
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FANTASTIC!!!
What a result
Said yesterday that I thought we could possibly get something out of the Gooners, but never dreamt of that.3-0 up at the Emirates.
What a UNIT we have.What a WEEK.
Only thing I’m thinking of now, although early days is if it continues, don’t condemn me, but how long before someone comes searching and knocking on the door for RDM.
Is he fully commited and could we hold onto him.
Hope I’m barking up the wrong tree, just being realistic, because over the years I’ve witnessed too often things being ripped apart in an instant.WORRIED.
BAGGIESBAGGIESBAGGIES
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This has just got to be the best day ever!!! Went to Blackpool pleasure beach today and looked at my brothers phone to find us 3-0 with 5 minutes to go, thought his phone was broken!!
Magnificent result, every Albion player deserves man of the match. This will serve as a warning to every Premiership side that we are not to be taken lightly, you cannot think you can just turn up and get a result.
Very, very proud Albion fan this evening.
Boy, if I’m dreaming, please nobody wake me up!!
BOING BOING!!
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The future is bright it is Blue and White. The future is crap it is Gold and Black.
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Another excellent result.
But let’s not get too carried away fellow Baggie fans – According to Alan Hansen, we have a chance!
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Quite simply the best day of my young football fan life! I was in tears as i slid accross the floor to celebrate the third goal lol! Worked in the pub tonight in London and enjoyed heaps of praise from the Fulham locals, Everton away fans and chelsea/arsenal fans – such a proud day!!
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What a fantastic result.I have to say thank you yo the REAL wolves fans that realize the true impact of Albions win BOING BOING
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What a fantastic result,Never been more prouder to be a Baggie.. I dont care if its a word. Thank you to the REAL wolves fans that realize the impact of ALBIONS win today …BOING BOING
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THIS IS SHAPING UP TO BE THE BEST SEASON SINCE 1978!
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Fantastic result. I was watching the game at home in Brisbane on my tele. I was dancing on my sofa at 3 nil and always expecting the Arsenal to come back and win. The manner of the win was as good as the result. Albion play efficiently like Germany, very much like Germany. So organized and Arsenal were in disarray. This was no fluke Albion took the game to the gunners and duly rewarded. Albion have been playing well since the Sunderland game. If West Brom keep this up which I think is going to happen. Then we will have problems hanging onto RDM and the top performers in the team. That is the only downside. Jeremy Peace needs to do what he can to protect the clubs assets and not lose them cheaply to bigger clubs.
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fair play gettin a result there and by all accounts you deserved it. looks like you got yourself a goalscorer as well. still early days though but you got to enjoy it while you can. well done.
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Top result! What a massive bonus, congrats.
3 points for the Wolves today and the Midlands will be looking pretty rosy.
Fingers crossed we’ll all be “safe” by January and send some Cockneys down!!
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sat up till 3 am in ozzie land what a great match loving it go the baggies you were and looked the better team on the day happy to be a loyal baggie supporter go you baggies yeh
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WE CAME WE SAW WE CONQUERED AYE BOING BOING
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i hope bolton can do us a favour today and beat man u aye boing boing
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great result for us specialy with chelsea losing aye boing boing
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boing boing pride of midlands bring on united
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Well played baggies, great performance & a well deserved win. Glad to see your boys put those southern fairies in there place!!
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Arsenal this arsenal that, rubbish, did not attend the match and all these rubbish excuses because they lost …. excuses YES … would they have said the same had they won the match? would they have said all those bad things about their keeper almunia before he saved the penalty? DFF. NOOOOOOO!
THE THING IS THAT WEST BROM MADE THEM LOOK ORDINARY, ITS THAT WEST BROM WERE THE BETTER SIDE. Well done to all our players, you made us proud baggies fans. Cant stop looking @ the premiership table, its a dream come true. more of the same please, and before I go, dont take Bolton lightly next Sat, treat the game like you did against the arsenal, lets keep focused.
COME ON YOU BAGGIES!
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I always say as i see it and I have to say congrats on a great performance,..but a little more worrying for us up the road is that you do look a decent side this year!! but fair play
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Another excellent and spirited perfomance by the boys against one of the Prems leading teams.
We passed the ball confidently and used the full width of the pitch with clever overlapping wing play which is proving to be an assett. Thomas has really come into devastating form and works really well with Brunt. Not forgetting Jimmy Morrison who huffs and puffs but always finds delicate and clever passes contributes to a midfield that is just superb and can only see it getting better as time goes by.
I was lucky to go and what an atmosphere it was.
Goooo on ge it sum omma yaw baggies!!!!!!
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What a fantastic result congratulations to the whole team and Manager & Team keep this up and who knows whats going to happen this season and what a great performance by all in the side.
Also Alan Sheares comments on Match of the day was well deserved.
Its good to see goals going in at last in the premier league.
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very well done lads watched the game with a lot of of dutch mates who were astonished at our performance,sick of hearing how bad the arse ,and liverpool and tottenham and bloose ,we are just good simple as that
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Fair play Albion. I’m a wolves fan and you just have to applaud that result! You have a decent manager and some canny signings. Maybe motd might start acknowledging midlands football too!
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i mite put the radio on at arf 1 wile im cooking dinner n listen to the relegation battle thats taking place in staffordshire aye boing boing
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37 wolves1877 & 40 erio- many wolves fans have congratulated us,so how does it feel to look complete idiots with your stupid and jealous remarks? Go to bed early,you’re back to school tomorrow.
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Amazing result!! Amazing performance! Dont really know what to say on here for a change
This has just been the best week to be a Baggie!
There is a buzz around the club and we are in dream land…
Nothing but credit for the players, manager and all the staff… We love u Albion!!!
Just enjoy this week and bring on Bolton, keep up the excellent work and we can carry this momentum. Hopefuly we can win the next home game to make this day even more special and it will justify this result. Bolton will be a team in the bottom half so its important to follow up with another 3 points at home to make the Arsenal victory and the 3 points extra valuable.
Boing Boing
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lucky villa wolves were robbed
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Watched the game on live stream and thought
we were great.I take all the negative stuff
back about Jerome Thomas as the bloke was
fantastic in this match and actually had an end product.
Great to see Roberto Di Matteo as a guest on
`Goals On Sunday.
Cant see Wolves staying up playing the percentage game all the time,if I had to
watch that every week I`d ask Jez Moxey for my
money back.
3 teams to go down will be Blackpool,Wigan,
and Wolves.
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Fantastic result lads, so proud to be a Baggie at the moment. This wasn’t a smash and grab, 1-0 fortunate victory, we scored 3 goals and missed a penalty at the Emirates.
This is as good a squad as I can remember at the Albion. The team of the late 70′s was superb but didn’t have the strength in depth of this squad. When you consider the three teams we’ve beaten in the last 7 days, and truly beaten, it really is outstanding.
I realize it’s a marathon not a sprint, but credit where credit is due. JP, DA, RDM and his coaching staff, the players, the scouting network, everyone behind the scenes, take a bow.
PS if we do beat Bolton next Saturday and other results go our way, which is not unrealistic looking at the fixtures, we can go 2nd in the Premiership….. I’m in never, never land surely.
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credit where credit is due. shame some boggie fan and sir terry, dont share the love when the wolves produce (all be it on rare occasions lol) well done but UTW!!!!!
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All areas of the squad are strong and there is competition for every place in the team. This bodes really well for us this season and this was a fantastic performance. Lets make sure we stay behind the lads, the manager and the Chairman (who never gets the credit he deserves for the service he has given this club)…Could I dream about beating Man Utd away???!
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35, twas i Cyril twas i,aye boing boing
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30, talking bout betting, a female ALBION friend of mine,(and a very pretty one to)was lucky enuff to be in the executive box at the emirates,she backed ALBION to win 3-2 and won 500 smackers,hows that for a day out,infact the only downturn to her day was she wornt on the same coach as me,AYE BOING BOING
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This week must have been a Dynasty dream sequece or something along those lines. WELL DONE BOYS! I’m the proudest I’ve been to be a Baggie for a very long time (apart from winning the Championship, I was pretty chuffed then).
I’ve said it before, this is looking to be the best vintage since the early 80s and RDM is surely going on to great things as a manager. I hope he sticks with us for a couple of seasons before he inevitably moves on. If he can plant us in the middle of this table then the future of the club will be bright.
MOTD were very complimetory of us last night. Shearer in particular. Hansen begrudgingly admitted we might stay up and Gary was the legend he always is.
Johnathan Pearce on the other hand was a fat jowely cod piece and I’m glad his footballing ‘knowledge’ got a severe kick in the jublies yesterday. His commentry on MOTD was so bias he may as well have been shouting ‘come on Arsenal’ down the mike. The man is a turd.
Pay no attention to him Baggies. You played incredible football yesterday which again stopped the opposition playing thier game. We shouldn’t get carried away. We could quite easily be brought down to earth by a decent Bolton side next week but sweet child o mine, that was a stonker!
Boing and proud to Boing once more.
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Just back from London with a very thick head. What….a…..day!!! Every single one of them was magnificent and worked their socks off.
A few Albion in the Wetherspoons after the game, we were all stood around, nobody knew what to say, we were all shellshocked!!
Fair play to the Wulfies for giving us some credit, and to Shearer on MOTD, Le Tiss on Sky and Wenger, who apparently praised us more than was shown in his short TV interviews.
We’ve got to keep our feet on the ground though, best result last season (Boro) was followed by a slump. Losing to Bolton would take away the shine. Also, whilst 10 points is fantastic, there aren’t any teams who’ve stood out as relegation fodder so far, so we’re no more than 5/6 points clear of West Ham, Wolves, B’pool, Newcastle, Wigan etc. Keep our head’s down, working hard and the rest will look after itself.
Final point to echo what’s gone above- the secret’s out now. RDM, Mulumbu, Jara, Thomas…..they’ll be much sought after now, lets keep them happy and keep building. Well done JP and DA.
Boing boing. A very happy Baggie!!
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Best performance by a baggie team for over 30 years,best manager since big Ron, hard not to get carried away but crucial to get more points against Bolton.In R.D.M and J.P. we trust playing football the way it should be ,with style and flair.Fair play to most wulfies for their comments.
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Well that was seventh heaven, even if I had bitten my fingernails down to my elbows by the final whistle… anguish after we missed the penalty… & then dancing around the room after each of our goals – MAGIC. I’m back over for a couple of weeks soon & will be at the Fulham game – I wish I could be at Old Trafford too, but I guess no chance of a ticket there… BOING BOING!!!
Graham
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What can I say. Always proud to have been a baggie since watching Robson, Regis, Statham, Wile, Godden and others as a young boy.
Our greatest away day for many a year at this level, since the 5-3 at old trafford perhaps. This win has brought me tears of joy. This is what makes being a football fan worthwhile.
It’s been many a year coming but at last this year we look like we can cast the yo-yo shackles off and make the rest of this league take notice we are here to stay awhile yet! There is a long way still to go and we need to realise that winning at the Emirates is not the goal for the season but achieving a top 17 position is the requirement. Hope Roberto was at the Reebok today plotting for our next two premier league wins ;).
If all four of the local teams can stay up and make an impression then perhaps just maybe we can give the London based media a poke in the eye and they will have to give credit where it’s due. But the longer they keep writing us off the more points we will collect.
Also a good draw in the Carling Cup at Leicester. I may be wrong but we haven’t lost at the Walkers stadium have we?
The futures bright the futures blue and white.
Boing Boing
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Two bottles of vino tinto,singing The Lords My Sheppard on my own at the Bronze Bar in Magaluf,taking 60euro of the bookies and finishing a great day off with the best Chinese on Mallorca overlooking the Med with the wife,what a great day! could only be bettered by being at the Emirates.Coming back for some work in October,will be at 2 home games and Leicester,
can’t wait.
Adeu
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i was at old trafford in 78/9 when we won 5-3, i dident think that i wud ever witness a better baggiz perfomance or result,but i did on saturday,i was still shaking on the coach,so proud to be a baggie,aye boing boing
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im glad he wasent cuz it wud have been an excuse for our result,but why wornt almunia sent off,aye boing boing
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I was lucky enough to be at the game and we were awesome. When days like this come along it makes it all worthwhile. Make no mistake this was no fluke we were the better side by some margin. This result and performance is up there with the 5-3 at Old Trafford. Well done Robbie and the boys.
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Glad I’m not the only wolves fan who’s happy to see you stuff the gooners. Even whinger wenger had nothing to moan about. Supporters of the ‘big’ teams will never know the sheer joy that you will get from this result. Disappointing that the national media focussed on how bad Arse were though. Its about time they took their blinkers off and realised that theres more to the Premier League than the so called big 4
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amazing feeling, amazing team, amazing victory!! BOING BOING!!
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Did anybody listen to talk sport yesterday afternoon? I think one of the presenters was Danny Kelly although it was showing Ian Danter on with Ray Houghton.
I was fuming all he was going on about was,
A bad Arsenal performance.
How did Arsenal get THEMSELVES 3 nil down.
All the Arsenal fans coming into the Indian for a meal last night feeling sorry for themselves.
Nobody has took any money off the bookies on this result,I took 60euro for one.
Not one single word,and I mean not one word on how well we played,I was fuming,they wouldn’t let me on air.
Early’er Collymore started a debate about bad punditry,if he doesn’t mention it tonight, I will.
I would also like to put my hands up,a couple of months a go I disagreed with someone,can’t remember who it was,about JT I said I didn’t think he would make it because he wasn’t consistent enough,I’m beginning to change my mind.
Adeu
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was soo glad that we got the well deserved praise on motd not hearing how bad arsenal were and how they didnt turn up (boring) we deserved that win and we fought for it all the way… so thank you mr shearer!!!! boing boing
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Nearly 100 ecstatic posts with supporters flying round in dizzy circles. Switch your minds to Monday training on the Birmingham road, Walsall. Messrs.RdM and Newton, “Are you lot listening to us? Jerome, we know you skinned the right back 53 times, now shut the **** up and start training. Yes, go and have another pee if you must first”.
How is he going to get them back, feet on the ground ready for Bolton, who, make no mistake, will also be flying after their draw with Man.U. ? They’ll have 12 players on the pitch too because ROBBO WILL BE BACK! So, from Wednesday on, please switch your posts to the next home game, BOLTON Bleedin’ WANDERERS! That is an order!
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Shearer summed it up well for me its all about Albion today SENSATIONAL performance
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The Daily Star on line site’s headline is, and I quote, “ROBERTO MANCINI’S WEST BROM SEND ARSENAL’S TITLE HOPES UP IN A PUFF OF SMOKE”
You can’t make it up. Also over on the dark side, the natives are very restless over their loss to Villa
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Although the whole team were superb on Saturday I think special mention must be made of Mulumbu who is quickly reaching the standard of his mentor Makele. Wenger must also be regretting his decision to release Jerome Thomas who made the Arsenal defence look very ordinary on Saturday.
I posted on Friday that Albion were very good value for the betting odds offered. I hope some of you ” dipped your bread ” .
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Cyril.
Wise words my friend.
It is difficult not to get carried away with this result, but resist we must.
Bolton will offer a different, but equaly difficult set of problems that we must endeavour to overcome.
An easy game it aint !!!
I emplore everyone to read the first of LW`s posts on the Wolves 1 Villa 2 thread.
For hillarity,denial,and sheer spite, it would be impossible to surpass.
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CYRIL RANDLE
Bolton with 12 men !!! they will be down to ten, 25 mins in, as Robinson will be having an early bath.
Can only echo all the above comments, walked out of the Emirates ten foot high, do not know what they feed Mulumbu but i would like a bucket of it.
BOING BOING ( WHOOPS not supposed to mention that are we).
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40, ERIO, care to tell us how many years since Wolves won at Arsenal? clue (as you seem clueless): its more than 27 years ! Why not join your more intelligent fellow Wolves fans and congratulate us on a great result instead of making yourself look bitter and stupid.
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Maggie thatcher lulu poppeye
Mr vinegar yor boys took a hell of a beating I dont need shoes im walkin on air
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I can only echo everything that everone has said, however if Ronaldo or Rooney etc would of produced the ‘back heel’ that put Jara thru’ for the second goal we would of seen it a thousand times & all the pundits would be waxing lyrical about ‘World Class’. Give Chris Brunt some credit for a piece of genius!!
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Fantastic result! Best side we,ve had since the Giles days! Comin over for Man U away, where,s everyone meeting for a beer or 2! Cor wait!!
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ERIO
is that Latin for derrier, cause frankly that is what you talk out of . Can only assume NEVA and WINN are Latin also.
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Looks like Bolton going to be a sell out, rang at 9am to try and get two seats in SME, only had singles, so BRE for me, and not many of those left, cant wait.
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What a performance, what a weekend. Like everyone else I didn’t want to leave. So proud of the lads, we were brilliant for the whole 95 minutes. Well done to the fans too; I brought a French mate over for the game and he said he had never experienced anything like the atmosphere we generated. What an afternoon.
One little gripe; don’t know if anyone gets the Observer on Sunday, but Terry Wills, bless ‘im, was the Albion fan asked to give a little report and mark the players out of 10. He gave Jara the top mark of 8, which to me is still a bit stingy, but he gave Brunty 5! OK, he missed the pen, but it was his block that prevented them going one up, and he created two of our goals, one of them with an absolutely classic backheel. So Terry, if you’re reading, stop doing the Observer reports or people will think we don’t know our football.
Proud to be a Baggie.
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Paris Baggie
Interesting to read the bit about the Observer. The big thing for me about Brunty is his defensive work recently.
In the first half he deflected Arshavin’s effort off the post, but the big thing is he occupies those sorts of positions when his full-back’s been drawn across. He made a similar clearance off a corner in the first half and our second-half improvement against Spurs came about once Brunty moved to the right and gave a bit more protection to Jara against Bale.
He’s always been an asset when we’ve had the ball but at the moment under RDM he’s an asset when we lose it. 5 out of 10′s ridiculous in my opinion. Well done Brunty and RDM/coaching staff.
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what a result,great to see a team like albion go there with no fear and win,so proud to be a albion fan,again the star man mulubu what a find,cannot wait for saturday,well done the baggies and roberto GODDDDDD.
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P.S.
In fact, Terry Wills if you are reading, it’d be interesting to know how Mulumbu warranted a 6 (he was everywhere!!) and Olsson, Ibanez and Thomas’s performance only a 7???
Perhaps this was your way of staying grounded and telling the world that this was no fluke result, but I think you’ve been insulting to the workrate, application, determination and organisation of some of our players there.
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All
Lets take a moment to look at the structure of the football club, and how we veiw The Chairman and the Board of Directors. It shows how fickle we all can be. The latest approach of breaking the wage structure whilst not paying huge transfer fees, is paying dividends, and we have swept any doubts about them away for the time being.
The same applies to the Rainbow (Geoffrey Bia /Zippy Moxey/ George Elokobi/ Bungle MaCarthey) lot down the road, who have forgotten that prior to their honeymoon period last year now things arn’t quite as rosy, with 4 top 4 fixtures to come, i expect the postings to be requesting McCarthey Out.
So Beware RDM, but let’s enjoy it while we can.
Well done to everyone at the footbal club.
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Did you see Brunt’s face when he missed the penalty? He was gutted, but the other lads consoled him best they could even during the game. He’ll never ‘tap’ another one I’ll bet. Far better to smash it, and he can, in Bomber Brown style. Chris Brunt is gradually becoming a great player. He’ll play wherever he’s asked to, learns quickly and does whatever job he’s supposed to do. One of the first on my team sheet every time as I’ve said before. If you want some real marks out of ten, the local Sunday paper was more like it. Maybe Terry Wills was having a ‘Kind to Cockneys Day’ as gloating isn’t a nice characteristic.
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No.109Barnes59. I’m not sure that “It shows how fickle we all can be” is fair my friend. There are those of us who have NOT criticised the Chairman, the Board, the Coaching Staff, the Players, the Team, in fact have been mightily supportive of all things Baggies. In my case, I have moaned about the PA system, now much more acceptable thanks to Dan The Man and the stadium clock, visible only at night when all the lights are out. In fact, it would be lovely to have a PROPER round clock, a big un, sitting on the Throstle we salvaged from the old Woodman Corner. Kev in Mallorca did advise me to buy a watch, but I like icons, especially the West Brom Thrush.
If things progress as well as they are doing, then I’d dangle a Directorship at Roberto to keep him, come what may, because we don’t want another 1981 and on downward slide when the club was torn apart by Man.U.
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Warren and Cyril: couldn’t agree more. Brunt is working his socks off and has confirmed what we knew from our last season in the Premier, ie that he is Premier class. The one thing that used to frustrate me about him was his inability/reluctance to take on a full back, but now we have other wide players to do that job (eg Thomas who has been brilliant), it allows Brunty to focus on what he’s best at.
Warren: I’d forgotten old Terry only gave 6 to Mulumbu. Ridiculous. He is one of the reasons we look more at home than we did under Mowbray. All of them deserve 10s anyway.
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CYRIL
Sorry mate , but if the Big boys come a calling for RDM, there will not be much Peace can do. I have said all along that if he is successful then we will be a stepping stone.
Sad i know but thats Football i’m afraid.
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Cyril,
I’m sure Tony (Bomber) Browns penalty law was,
hard and low and in you go.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Remember it was TM who brought Mulumbu to the Albion, I wonder if he had been fit for the whole of the season would it have made a difference to the outcome?
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This is the best win I can remember in all my time supporting the Albion. We’ve had a rollercoaster ride here at the Albion, a humiliating cup defeat to Mr Buzaglow and Woking, the pain of relegation to the 3rd Division in Bath made me cry in despair.
Managers and players walking out, avoiding relegation by the skin of our teeth season after season. All that makes a result like this all the more sweeter. For 95 magical minutes on Saturday, I was in heaven.
Keep it going now boys, Bolton on Saturday, lets raise the roof!!
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Wallheath. Too true, but sometimes you are doing a great construction job and the satisfaction is to be had, especially if he keeps it going, gets settled, climbs the tree with us, then …well I can hope !
Bodmin. Mulumbu is a gem, agreed, but it’s showing more now as his experience has increased and in my view, the coaching is superior.
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