As someone said earlier this week, “West Brom might have held City to a goal-less draw and might play some nice stuff, but they are hardly Barcelona”….indeed, however this is still the team which took six points off Everton last season and in the process scored five and conceded one and against whom two players were red carded; Arteta at Goodison and Bilyaletdinov at the Hawthorns. They are also the club, lest no one forget, who beat hot favourites Everton 1-0 in the 1968 FA Cup final thanks to that Jeff Astle extra-time winner. They are then, in best nose-picking parlance, a bogey team. Now let’s discuss the estimable...
