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It does make you wonder where the root cause is when you hear Middlesbrough are playing attractive football.

Maybe West Brom are cursed and even Pep couldn’t make them play well?

Not sure Boro are playing attractive football, but they are playing winning football!!  That generally makes all the difference!!

Well I signed up to not wanting winning football at any cost. We had all lost the will go live if Mr Pilis’s brand of thatand are happy to drop to the Championship if that was the cost (looks certain).

What I had wanted, and where the Albion board so far have failed me, is a bright young manager to rebuild us and bring attacking flair back to the club. Me Pardew was a very expensive mistake as that person would have had enough fixtures to change the players and keep us up.

I am not personally mourning relegation. I feel it is an essential part of the rebuild and I embrace it (Mr Pardew excluded).