Steve Madeley's Albion tour diary

Another day, another delay. This is getting predictable.

This time, the hold-up was slightly more worrying as my plane from San Jose to Los Angeles yesterday was held up for almost an hour – due to a missing panel on the cargo hold.

Our captain seemed quite calm when he announced the reason for the delay, although it's safe to say not everyone on board shared his composure.

The sight and sound of the maintenance man repairing the fault by whacking it with a hammer didn't do much for the nerves, either.

But their confidence proved well-founded and we finally reached LAX with no further drama.

A two-hour drive north west brought me to Ojai, my home for the next six days and the small down where the Baggies are based for their Californian training camp.

The players were handed a day off for sightseeing yesterday and, judging on first impressions, it would have been well worth a trip out of the town as its backdrop – beautiful rolling hills and mountains – is fabulous.

It's a safe bet the Baggies will have seen enough by next week, however, after 10 days of running.

So they will be encouraged by the weather forecast for the next few days with temperatures only predicted to reach the low 20s and even some light rain apparently on the way.

But poor Boaz Myhill might have thought he had avoided widespread attention for his error in Tuesday's defeat in San Jose.

But the Baggies goalkeeper reckoned without fans with camera phones and access to You Tube.

One quick-thinking Quakes supporter filmed rookie goalkeeper David Bingham's remarkable 90-yard strike and then, just to embarrass Myhill a little further, posted the footage online.

Thankfully for the Wales international, any locals who remember him from his days as a child in nearby Modesto might have missed the incident in the local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, the morning after the night before.

Daniel Bohm's report was relegated to the foot of page five in the paper's sports section, with most US sports fans focussed on the popular baseball All-Star game.

And there's always someone worse off than you and, for proof of that old adage, Myhill need only look at former team mate Scott Carson.

The ex-Baggies No 1's attempts to relaunch his career in Turkey got off to a dreadful start when he conceded a bizarre goal in Bursaspor's 1-0 friendly defeat to Steaua Bucharest.

Carson was still positioning his wall when the officials allowed a free-kick to be taken quickly and a Steaua player simply rolled the ball into an empty net.

It's worth checking out on You Tube, especially if your surname is Myhill.