Albion began a miserable November with a loss away at Derby. Will they begin December with another loss to the Rams, or can they regain some of the form they displayed earlier this season? The Rams are the in-form team in the Championship, having won six in a row (the second of the six being Albion's match at Pride Park), and they now sit in that tight pack of clubs at the top of the table. Our slide down the table MUST end at the Hawthorns today, or we could easily be in the lower half of the table... by 1700 GMT. Unfortunately, I will miss the second half of the match as this is one of the rare Saturdays I've got to go to work.
West Bromwich Albion 1 Derby County 0 We won, finally. Surprisingly, however, it was the fat Welshman who earned a goal for us. By all accounts, we should have had more as well. We're back within range of the top, but we still have much more work ahead of us as we approach the busy Christmas programme.