Leicester victory leaves Alan Pardew in West Brom’s last chance saloon

With relegation all but a formality for West Bromwich Albion after yet another chastening defeat, the only question that remains unanswered is how much longer the club’s board will tolerate the sight of Alan Pardew presiding over their hapless plight. This was their seventh successive loss, leaving them eight points adrift of safety with eight matches remaining, and Pardew cut a hapless figure on the touchline as Leicester City’s jubilant supporters mocked Albion about spending next season in the Championship.

Albion have now won only one of their last 28 league matches and it is increasingly clear that there will be no sequel to the 2005 Great Escape, when Bryan Robson managed to haul the club clear from a desperate position. Pardew, in contrast, has never looked like arresting the club’s slide towards the relegation zone. Albion have picked up only eight points from a possible 48 since he was appointed in November, with Leicester relishing the opportunity to inflict a bit more pain here with their fourth successive victory at the Hawthorns.

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