Match reports 2005/2006
| Hammond takes centre stage | | 5:15am Monday 11th December 2006 | | EVERY team has them. For Chelsea it is Claude Makelele, Arsenal have Gilberto, Manchester United John O'Shea. |
| July 26: Colchester 0 Albion 1 | | 3:29pm Wednesday 26th July 2006 | | Manager Mark McGhee believes Colin Kazim-Richards has the potential to be the goalscorer Albion are looking for. |
| July 17: Bognor 2 Albion 5 | | 3:25pm Wednesday 26th July 2006 | | Jake Robinson is ready to make the most of his last teenage year and cause a stir in first-team football. |
| July 15: Aldershot 1 Albion 1 | | 3:24pm Wednesday 26th July 2006 | | Manager Mark McGhee had plenty of food for thought following Albion's pre-season stalemate at Aldershot. |
| July 6: Frutos signs new deal | | 1:58pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | |
Alex Frutos has pledged his future to Albion by signing a new two-year contract without an escape clause. |
| July 10: Worthing 0 Albion 4 | | 12:24pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Jake Robinson has been a bright young prospect waiting to fully blossom for longer than he probably cares to remember. |
| May 1: Albion 1 Stoke 5 | | 12:21pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Two flame-haired Republic of Ireland prospects, one for Albion and one for Stoke, took all the plaudits at Withdean yesterday. |
| April 24: Wolves 1 Albion 0 | | 12:19pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The result was irrelevant but the line-up named by Mark McGhee was intriguing. |
| April 10: Albion 0 Southampton 2 | | 12:14pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Every beaten team can usually reflect on a turning point, a moment which might have changed the face of the match. |
| April 3: Millwall 0 Albion 2 | | 12:11pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | There were plenty of individual performances to admire as Albion kept alive their hopes of Championship survival with a heartening victory. |
| March 20: QPR 1 Albion 1 | | 12:05pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion manager Mark McGhee predicted on Friday the trip to Loftus Road could be the turning point in the fight for Championship survival. |
| March 13: Albion 0 Preston 0 | | 12:03pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion's first point in seven games could also just prove to be a turning point in the scrap for Championship survival. |
| March 6: Plymouth 1 Albion 0 | | 12:01pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Scoring goals has been a problem for Albion all season but they have defended reasonably well for much of the campaign. |
| February 27: Crewe 2 Albion 1 | | 11:58am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | For whom the Bell tolls? Does Lee Bell's freak equaliser herald the beginning of the end for Albion in the Championship? |
| February 20: Albion 0 Watford 1 | | 11:56am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Chris Eagles' extraordinary winning goal from the halfway line stunned everybody at Withdean, everybody that is except Paul McShane. |
| February 15: Norwich 3 Albion 0 | | 11:53am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion's luck shows no sign of turning, with time beginning to run out in their battle to beat the drop. |
| February 13: Albion 1 Leicester 2 | | 11:51am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Try as they might, nothing is going right for Albion in their increasingly desperate battle to beat the drop. |
| February 6: Coventry 2 Albion 0 | | 11:48am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Picture the predicament. In the past two years you have moved up the property ladder from a one-bed flat into a two-bed apartment. |
| January 23: Sheffield United 3 Albion 1 | | 11:45am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion discovered to their cost again the difference between the dominating top two and the rest of the teams in the Championship. |
| January 18: Albion youth 2 Chelsea Youth 1 | | 11:43am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Dean Wilkins watched his Albion wonder kids dump super-rich Chelsea out of the FA Youth Cup at Withdean last night, then insisted: "We can play better". |
| January 13: Albion 2 Leeds United 1 | | 11:41am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion finally shrugged off the pattern of second half fading and failure to claim their most satisfying home scalp of the season. |
| January 9: Albion 0 Coventry 1 | | 11:39am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The shortcoming which is staring us all in the face sentenced Albion to another expensive early exit from the FA Cup. |
| January 2: Albion 1 Millwall 2 | | 11:33am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Dean Hammond could be the next Albion youth team product to catch the eye of other clubs if he develops a killer instinct in front of goal. |
| December 27: Albion 1 QPR 0 | | 11:28am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion will have to scrap for Championship survival until March without their inspirational skipper. |
| December 12: Reading 5 Albion 1 | | 11:22am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | One moment of madness wrecked Albion's hopes of halting Reading's relentless surge towards the Premiership. |
| December 5: Watford 1 Albion 1 | | 11:20am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion launched a critical couple of months by proving yet again they are two-thirds of the way towards being a team to be reckoned with in the Championship. |
| November 28: Albion 0 Derby 0 | | 11:17am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Alan Blayney did not have the happiest of starts to his second loan spell with Albion. |
| November 23: Cardiff 1 Albion 1 | | 11:14am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion manager Mark McGhee predicted when he signed Colin Kazim-Richards from Bury that the teenage striker would provide some of the highlights of the season. |
| November 21: Albion 2 Crystal Palace 3 | | 11:11am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | A cruel and controversial climax to Albion's fifth home defeat out of ten camouflaged the shortcoming which threatens to deprive them of their Championship status. |
| November 7: Stoke 3 Albion 0 | | 11:08am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | It must be the season for apologies. Jose Mourinho will say sorry to Arsene Wenger if the Arsenal boss says sorry to him. |
| October 31: Albion 1 Ipswich 1 | | 11:02am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion chairman Dick Knight, adapting a well-worn football phrase, was "over Jupiter" when the green light was given for Falmer. |
| October 19: Palace 0 Albion 1 | | 10:57am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | It is impossible to imagine a more satisfying way to move off the bottom of the table. |
| October 3: Albion 1 Norwich 3 | | 10:52am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | If Albion are going to survive in the Championship this season they need to be on their game from the first whistle to the last. |
| September 19: Albion 2 Coventry 2 | | 10:45am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Knowing how to get the best out of your players is an obvious and yet much under-estimated part of the art of management. |
| September 12: Leeds 3 Albion 3 | | 10:41am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Leon Knight is back to his goal-scoring best, as the focal point of surely the smallest strike force in the country. |
| August 24: Shewsbury 3 Albion 2 | | 10:36am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion made an embarrassing exit from the Carling Cup, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. |
| August 15: Albion 2 Crewe 2 | | 10:30am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion have one of the smallest squads in the Championship, so it is just as well it is also one of the most adaptable. |
| August 10: Albion 0 Reading 2 | | 10:28am Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | If the performance at Pride Park was the up side, this was most definitely the downside. |
| August 8: Derby Co 1 Albion 1 | | 10:24am Monday 18th July 2005 | | Albion are already looking a different team, and not just because of their new maroon away kit and the introduction of several new players. |
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