Goals from Southampton’s Wesley Hoedt and Dusan Tadic finish West Brom

If this proves to be the game when the taxi for Alan Pardew is called, then West Brom’s senior players must share culpability.

The Albion manager admitted beforehand his job security was weak after Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Boaz Myhill and Jake Livermore broke a curfew on a team-bonding trip to Barcelona at 5.30am on Thursday to appropriate the taxi that had taken them to a fastfood outlet. So losing at home to Southampton for the second time in a fortnight, to depart the FA Cup, only undermines Pardew’s position.

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