11-09-2018, 07:15
On Friday evening Albion travel to St Andrews to resume their Championship campaign with a long-neglected derby. Aside from a run-of-the-mill FA Cup tie in 2015, the Baggies haven't locked horns with the Blues since that day in March 2011 when Scharner and Mulumbu struck to give Albion a 3-1 win and start the sequence of results that propelled us to safety and Birmingham to relegation. It's been a rough ride for the Small Heath lot ever since, and things haven't improved so far this season, with Blues sitting winless above the relegation zone.
Albion's strength so far has been at home, and as it's a local derby, anything's possible. It'd be nice to think we've got the talent to pull off a second away win of the season, but realistically, a draw would be a decent enough result to keep us ticking over.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley