Fantastic opening article. I have always loved reading about players who have changed the game of football for the better, just shows though how far we have come with racism in the sport. Also goes to show the transition in football with a club from generation to generation. West brom were once a heavyweight, and many of the younger fans would only recognise them as a team lucky to be in the prem these days. Its a timely reminder to those who think we have a right to be top four...its a right that you only earn and Liverpool as a club hold a special place in world football as we have been up the top end of league 1 and the prem league for so many years. Every club has rebuilding periods at some stage in their history and thimis one of ours. We coplain about finishing 8th and only winning one cup ion a year.... look at clubs like West brom, nottingham forrest, Leeds, rangers, wimbeldon. All once the top the game, and all fell hard. We only have slipped a bit.... and we are rising again.
So west brom...Obviously expecting a young team with names like suso, assaidi, coates, wisdom, henderson on the team sheets with the likes of carra, and jones to bump the average age up a bit. Whats the go with downing? is he still in the dog house? Would like to see pacheco given a run in his preferred position on the left, a natural striker centrally in morgan/yesil/ngoo given a chance and assaidi on the right. We need to find someone to play on the right now with borini out...and i see it either being downing or assaidi. Suso possibly also but his tracking back isnt the greatest and id prefer him to play centrally. Team could look something like
Jones
Wisdom Carra Coates Enrique
Henderson
Sahin Suso
Assaidi Pacheco
Morgan
Pacheco is much more effective running at the defense from the left, and really think we need to throw in morgan. He is physically a bit better than yesil, and i think he'll handle the pace of the game better than yesi. Bring him on as a sub if needed. Some may question that front three, however i think it will work. all technical, all are very very good at our pressing game and hpopefully that is where we bring west brom unstuck.
We are the defending champions here, so lads should all be fired up. Our attacking display was fantastic against young boys, just our defense was the real worry. looking for a massive improvement here