Hodgson refuses to gloat on return

If Carlsberg did Sunday afternoons for West Brom fans, it would probably pan out something like this one.

As memorable events go for your average Baggies follower, this was right up there with the best.If a first victory at Anfield for 45 years wasn’t enough, the fact that it was sealed at about exactly the same moment as their bitter Black Country rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers parted company with the Premier League topped off a particularly special day. In local vernacular, the term, apparently, is ‘bostin’.

A sun-drenched Anfield hardly provided the kind of backdrop where revenge was served-up cold, but having been shown the door with indecent haste after just six months in charge, the shortest reign in Liverpool’s history, Roy Hodgson must have afforded himself more than a modicum of satisfaction as he reflected on a victory that puts Albion back in the top half, just a point behind his former employers.