To get involved use <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Twitter <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (via hashtag <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #BBCFootball<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ) or text us via 81111<\/b> with FOOTBALL <\/b>before your message. (Not all contributions can be used. Messages will be charged at your standard operator rate.)<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t22 minutes: <\/b>Kenwyne Jones makes a bullocking run towards the West Brom box, only to be crudely scythed down from behind by Yousuff Mulumbu, who is rightly booked for his challenge. Jermaine Pennant lines up a 30-yard free-kick from goal.<\/div>\n \t\tBBC 5 live summariser Craig Burley: <\/b>“West Brom have got to keep the ball, not just go forward early, because it’s coming straight back at them.”<\/div>\n 11 minutes: <\/b>Ouch! Paul Scharner takes a knock to the back of his head as he competes for a header. Play is momentarily held up as the Austrian is taken off for treatment but once play resumes, Stoke earn a free-kick 15 yards from West Brom’s goal as Jerome Thomas concedes a needless foul.<\/p>\n \t\tFrom Anon, text 8111:<\/b> “Why oh why put the 1952 stat up?! You know my Baggies team are generous. I’m holding you personally responsible when stoke score in the first five mins!”<\/div>\n 6 minutes: <\/b>Left-back Danny Pugh swings over a left-footed corner for Ryan Shawcross, but the big centre-back cannot give the ball the required “ooomph” to trouble Scott Carson, who collects the ball comfortably. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Infostrada Live<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n : “Stoke and Liverpool are the only teams that have kept a clean sheet against West Brom in all Premier League matches. Stoke (three matches) are one of three clubs to have won all Premier League matches against WBA, together with Liverpool and Chelsea (both nine matches). If Robert Huth scores, he will match last year’s top scoring total for a defender in the Premier League. Arsenal’s Thomas Vermaelen scored seven goals in the 2009-10 season. Huth is on six goals this season as the top-scoring defender.” And we’re off.<\/p><\/div>\n \t\tFrom Anon, text 8111:<\/b> “Carson starting, Meite in defence, Odemwingie on the bench. NOT HAPPY.”<\/div>\n 1958:<\/b>BBC football expert <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark Lawrenson<\/b> had a pretty good weekend with his predictions.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is what he thinks about tonight’s match: “Hodgson might switch things round if he needs to chase the game but I still cannot see West Brom getting a look in here, because Stoke will be too strong physically for them, 1-0 home win.”<\/p>\n \t\tFrom Jacob, text 8111:<\/b> “You say ‘yet to win a match’ but that isn’t really fair. Hodgson’s first match was Wolves, so he’s been in charge for one game, one point, but you’re making him sound like he’s done awful!”<\/div>\n <\/p>\n tweet<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n or text me (via 81111) <\/b>your views about this, that or the other. Or preferably about tonight’s encounter at the Britannia Stadium. <\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t\tDandelacour on Twitter:<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “West Brom to get bullied tonight, and not just because of the way Stoke play. Expect the fans to play a big part in this game.” <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Det ante mej, sa han som blev utsparkad<\/i>“<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n , which of course means “I suspected this might happen, said the one that was kicked out.” The former Liverpool, Inter Milan, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Finland etc boss has yet to win a match since taking over as Baggies boss earlier this month with his team one place off bottom in the Premier League. Add to that the worst defensive record in the top flight, leaking 52 goals and gone a club record 25 Premier League games without keeping a clean sheet, Hodgson faces a monumental effort to keep the Baggies in the Premier League. <\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
Stoke<\/b>: Begovic, Wilson, Huth, Shawcross, Pugh, Pennant, Whitehead, Delap, Walters, Jones, Carew. Subs: Sorensen, Higginbotham, Collins, Whelan, Fuller, Etherington, Wilkinson.
West Brom<\/b>: Carson, Reid, Meite, Olsson, Shorey, Brunt, Scharner, Dorrans, Mulumbu, Thomas, Fortune. Subs: Myhill, Tchoyi, Morrison, Vela, Odemwingie, Tamas, Jara.
Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland)<\/div>\n