It does bother me. I was very proud of our club for trying to go about things the right way with coaches like Mowbray and Di Matteo who brought entertaining football to the club although it wasn't as successful in the Premiership. Since we got promoted and then sent Di Matteo to the garden centre, the club started to lose it's soul as a model that other teams could try to emulate. Of course we still had good times with Roy Hodgson and Steve Clarke's time but that is when the club's approach started to change with more emphasis on defence and counter-attack and less entertainment which is important for the neutral's view of our club.
Entertaining football, great fans and solid financially is what we were about. Now we are a boring, stale and disliked club who only cares about playing in the Premiership and the money it brings. The day Tony Pulis came to West Brom is the day this club finally sold it soul to the footballing devil that is the money machine known as the Premiership. I have nothing against Tony Pulis as a man but as a football coach/manager I have never been fond of him. I have warmed to him this season more and more as it went on but now he has returned to type and I'm starting to dislike him again.
A possible saving grace is now that we have a new owner and hopefully proper ambition, which we haven't had for a long time, the old West Brom with a great reputation can return. We shall see.
Drewks, if we were to ever go Italian in the future I would love Eusebio Di Francesco from Sassuolo.
Entertaining football, great fans and solid financially is what we were about. Now we are a boring, stale and disliked club who only cares about playing in the Premiership and the money it brings. The day Tony Pulis came to West Brom is the day this club finally sold it soul to the footballing devil that is the money machine known as the Premiership. I have nothing against Tony Pulis as a man but as a football coach/manager I have never been fond of him. I have warmed to him this season more and more as it went on but now he has returned to type and I'm starting to dislike him again.
A possible saving grace is now that we have a new owner and hopefully proper ambition, which we haven't had for a long time, the old West Brom with a great reputation can return. We shall see.
Drewks, if we were to ever go Italian in the future I would love Eusebio Di Francesco from Sassuolo.