Article: FOOTBALL: The sands of time have run out for West Brom; Southampton 1 West Brom 0.(Sport)

Byline: KEVIN GARSIDE

IT HAS been said many times this season that too many of West Brom's players could not trap a bag of sand, but never that they have been trapped IN a bag of sand.

Yet that is the mysterious truth of an afternoon in which both teams gave the impression of wading through treacle. Not quite Stamford Bridge, but bad enough.

West Brom boss Gary Megson is so used to seeing his players labour

fruitlessly that he probably never thought to inquire about the state of the pitch. Had he done so he would have been none the wiser.

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