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Deepdale

Saturday, September 29th, 2018
kickoff at 15:00

Premier League

Attendance: 14,099

Preston North End		West Bromwich Albion
2		3
Andrew Hughes (71), Alan Browne (90+6)		Jay Rodriguez (48), Ben Davies (og 73), Dwight Gayle (88)
		Gareth Barry (23), Kieran Gibbs (27), Tyrone Mears (59), Sam Johnstone (80)

Managers

Alex Neil

Darren Moore

Players

PRESTON NORTH END

22		Chris Maxwell (G)

02		Darnell Fisher (D)

		88

06		Ben Davies (D)

		73 (og)

14		Jordan Storey (D)

16		Andrew Hughes (D)

		71

23		Paul Huntington (D)

04		Ben Pearson (M)

08		Alan Browne (M)

		90+6

18		Ryan Ledson (M)

21		Brandon Barker (M)

		77

07		Callum Robinson (F)

		53

Subs

01		Declan Rudd (G)

03		Joshua Earl (D)

05		Tom Clarke (D)

10		Josh Harrop (M)

		88

11		Daniel Johnson (M)

09		Louis Moult (F)

		77

29		Tom Barkhuizen (F)

		53

WEST BROMWICH ALBION

01		Sam Johnstone (G)

		80

03		Kieran Gibbs (LB)

		27

05		Kyle Bartley (D)

12		Tyrone Mears (D)

		59

25		Craig Dawson (D)

26		Ahmed Hegazy (D)

08		Jake Livermore (M)

15		Harvey Barnes (M)

		72

18		Gareth Barry (M)

		23

		72

16		Dwight Gayle (F)

		88

		90+2

19		Jay Rodriguez (F)

		48

Subs

13		Boaz Myhill (G)

24		Tosin Adarabioyo (D)

11		Chris Brunt (M)

		72

21		Kyle Edwards (M)

22		Wes Hoolahan (M)

28		Sam Field (M)

		90+2

04		Hal Robson-Kanu (F)

		72

League Stats

This was League game number 4927 for Preston North End, made up of:

Division 1: 1723. (34.97%)

Championship/Division 2: 1924. (39.05%)

League 1/Div 3: 1058. (21.47%)

League 2/Division 4: 222. (4.51%)

Total League record up to and including this game:

This was League game number 4793 for West Bromwich Albion, made up of:

Premiership: 456. Division 1: 2652. (64.84%)

Championship/Division 2: 1593. (33.24%)

League 1/Div 3: 92. (1.92%)

Total League record up to and including this game:

P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	GA	Win Ratio
4927	1909	1266	1752	7292	6875	417	1.06	38.75%

P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	GA	Win Ratio
4793	1829	1188	1776	7284	7031	253	1.04	38.16%

2018

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Jimmyboy73
88

Gary The Baggie
88

Stamfordgaz63
62

What should have been a fairly easy few hours drive up the M6 turned into a bit of a nightmare due to problems on the motorway. We were stuck in some awful traffic, had to be diverted off the motorway and got stuck again near Cannock in the queue waiting to rejoin. Having started out at 10:45 we eventually arrived at Deepdale at about 2 o''clock. Fortunately though we did have a police escort to take us to stadium therefore by-passing all the traffic lights. Our coach parked up in Bill Shankly Crescent, which is at the back of the away fans stand, the Bill Shankly Kop. Deepdale is, apparently, the oldest continuously used ground in the world, having been first used for cricket and rugby in 1875 then for football since 1878. The stadium is in a very residential area and the club has a community feel about it. Having only a short time to look round the first thing that caught my eye was the impressive Tom Finney Splash statue/ fountain. The sculpture was inspired by a well known photograph of Tom Finney during a game when Preston played Chelsea on a sodden, rain soaked Stamford Bridge pitch in 1956. It''s located outside Finneys Sports bar on the corner of the Shankly Kop and the Finney stand and is well worth a look. Didn''t have time to check out the bar itself but I believe there''s a good selection of PNE memorabilia inside. The outside of the stadium is fairly standard stuff and is made up of four separate stands covered mainly in steel cladding, though the steelwork which holds up the huge floodlights and is attached to the stands is strangely eerie, looking as they do like some mechanical giant straight out of a sci-fi film with their arms outstretched. Even more so from inside the stadium with the huge bank of floodlights tilted towards the pitch. They''re coming for you!! The Tom Finney stand has a feature which seems fairly common to a lot of grounds these days: two towers either side of tinted glass frontage. One tower has the Preston crest, the other has the face of Sir Tom himself. At a guess this is the VIP entrance. this stand also houses the well stocked and spacious club shop. The Alan Kelly stand at one end of the ground is accessed through a narrow alleyway. Down here is the now familiar Memorial Wall and above the cladding is a gap where the concrete foundations of the stand above can be seen. After a quick search and an automated turnstile we headed into the Shankly Kop, which has a wide and spacious concourse selling the usual food and drinks. The inside of the stadium is traditional and no-frills but is impressive in its own way and the Preston North End history is in abundance within the the four separate stands. The stands are all the same height and design, are all single tiered, and have windshields to the sides. They are linked together by the previously mentioned floodlights which stand in each corner. The seats are all blue with three of the stands having images of Preston legends picked out within them. The Shankly Kop at one end of the ground is the away fans stand and is quite steep. If this one is anything to go by then the rest of stands have got an excellent, unobscured view of the playing surface. The face of Bill Shankly is picked out from front row to back in a section of the seating just behind the goal. Unfortunately and obviously, this image is only visible for the rest of the stadium (unless you can find a friendly steward who might let you back in for a quick snap. I was at the wrong end of the ground for that at full time and had to get back on the coach but I''ve found that if you ask politely they''re quite accommodating.) Opposite is the Alan Kelly Town End stand, a tribute to the goalkeeper who played 513 games for PNE and became manager for a couple of years after his retirement. His image is picked out in the seats behind the goal. Along one side of the ground is the Sir Tom Finney stand, which has his image picked out in the seating towards the Alan Kelly stand. Opposite that is the Invincibles Pavilion. // End of Season:- Preston North End finished 14th on 61 points.

Warren Stephens
61

Aidan977
11

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