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Article: West Brom cheer proves short-lived
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- April 13, 2003
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West Brom 1
Everton 2
EVERTON, APPROPRIATELY kitted out in graveside black on a day that
as good as saw West Brom killed off as a Premiership club, did their
bit to make it a painless and dignified dispatch into the afterlife,
otherwise known as the Nationwide League.
Everyone, that is, except Everton manager David Moyes who, showing
no respect for the solemnity of the occasion, argued so long, hard
and abusively about West Brom's penalty that referee Steve Bennett
ordered him from his touchline seat.
If a West Brom penalty can cause such a fuss, it is just as well
that it was their first for 12 months. Manager Gary Megson said:
"Penalties are like dodos to us. It has been so long that Igor ...