The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for West Bromwich Albion
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around West Bromwich Albion are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Alex Mowatt goes up and wins it — 7.66
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.66 for the rest of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at West Bromwich Albion
Chris Mepham and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
West Bromwich Albion come up short against Preston
Preston left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Callum Styles reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Jed Wallace
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Toby Collyer gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 David Grant left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Aune Heggebø
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- The dugout Jeon Jin-Woo left out for tactical reasons at West Bromwich Albion
- Looking ahead Jeon Jin-Woo goes back to face Oxford United
- Player ratings Karlan Grant was unplayable