Manchester City 3 - 0 West Brom - The Aftermath

Do I have such things as regular readers? Anyway, if I do, people may have noticed that I'm not an 'original' West Brom fan. I am a Chelsea fan and have been all my life, but due to geographical reasons and friends being involved with the club I have been going to WBA for 3 years now and I love it and feel some affinity with the club and the current players, but have something of an objective detachment that you cannot get with your own club.

My point is that days and games like today are all about expectation. If Chelsea went to Eastlands and came away with a result like this, I would be seriously disappointed. But West Brom, with their resources, away at the richest club in the world? There should only be one winner every time. The problem is that WBA's fantastic results at the Emirates, Old Trafford and Goodison Park have caused some West Brom fans to expect WBA to pick up points at places like Eastlands and unfortunately it's not going to happen.

Manchester City were excellent today. Their movement is phenomenal and the way they play between the lines of the oppositions defence and midfield is brilliant and ensures that opposition defenders are constantly being pulled out of position and WBA simply couldn't handle it. The constant pressure that WBA were under also no doubt contributed to the needless penalties given away by Steven Reid and Jerome Thomas. In Yaya Toure, David Silva (and particularly) Carlos Tevez, WBA came up against three of the Premier League's best players and they simply could not match them for quality.

This is not to deflect blame from WBA. They lacked any kind of physical presence or threat up front and once again too many players underperformed. But a defeat away at Man City can be written off as long as it is followed by wins at home to West Ham and Wolves.

Over to you lads..........