| August 7: Reading 3 Albion 2 | | 4:19pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | There was much to admire and bundles of encouragement for Albion's longer term future despite opening day defeat at the Madejski. |
| August 10: Albion 0 Plymouth 2 | | 4:17pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion knew life would be tough in the Coca-Cola Championship, but just how tough became even clearer after this convincing defeat at Withdean. |
| August 14: Albion 1 Coventry 1 | | 4:14pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | On the face of it, Albion's first goal of the season at Withdean pales in comparison to the last one last season, scored by the same player. |
| August 28: Albion 1 Preston 0 | | 4:08pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion's first victory of the season evolved from a video vigil after midnight in Mark McGhee's office. |
| August 30: Leicester 0 Albion 1 | | 4:04pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Mark McGhee pulled another rabbit out of the hat at the Walkers Stadium as his golden wonders pulled off a shock victory against his old club with a crisp finish from Adam Virgo. |
| September 29: Forest 0 Albion 1 | | 3:49pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The Albion players may not have realised it but they paid the best possible tribute to Brian Clough at the City Ground. |
| October 2: Albion 1 Sheffield Utd 1 | | 3:46pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Football's unwritten law of momentum suggests a rest is the last thing Albion require at the moment after seven points from the last three matches. |
| October 16: Crewe 3 Albion 1 | | 3:44pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Mark McGhee's 50th match in charge of Albion was marred by a strange refereeing performance. |
| October 23: Albion 1 Leeds 0 | | 3:40pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The referee was the same and so was the result, but it was not just the weather which was markedly different from that sunny May day in Cardiff when Albion clinched promotion. |
| November 6: Keep the faith | | 3:30pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | When Mark McGhee was asked after a damaging defeat whether Dean Ashton was the difference between the teams, his response was prompt and unequivocal. |
| November 13: West Ham 0 Albion 1 | | 3:28pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | When a player of Steve Claridge's experience and knowledge of the game speaks, he is well worth listening to. |
| November 20: Albion 0 Burnley 1 | | 3:26pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Here is the long and short of it. Coping without Danny Cullip and Adam Virgo was just too tall an order for one of the smaller sides in the Championship. |
| December 11: Millwall 2 Albion 0 | | 3:18pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Millwall winger Paul Ifill's clinical clincher 12 minutes from the finish must have made for interesting conversation with his victims and friends. |
| December 17: Albion 0 Stoke 1 | | 3:16pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion ended a turbulent week with a performance which showed they are still good enough to survive in the Championship. |
| December 26: Albion 2 Gillingham 1 | | 3:14pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | If Albion go on to defy the odds stacked against them by surviving in the Championship this season, they are bound to reflect on Boxing Day as a significant turning point. |
| December 28: Wolves 1 Albion 1 | | 3:13pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion boss Mark McGhee outwitted Glenn Hoddle to condemn the former England coach to a fourth successive 1-1 draw since taking charge of Wolves. |
| January 1: QPR 0 Albion 0 | | 3:12pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion's 'Big Daddy' and 'Little Hinsh' are proving they can cope without Danny Cullip. |
| January 3: Albion 2 Watford 1 | | 3:10pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion manager Mark McGhee is in dreamland after his side doubled his expectations over the hectic Christmas and New Year period. |
| January 17: Sheffiled United 1 Albion 2 | | 3:04pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | It has taken a while this season but, as assistant manager Bob Booker observed after a triumphant return to Bramall Lane, Leon Knight is "in the zone". |
| January 22: Albion 0 Forest 0 | | 3:01pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Despite missing an early penalty and an injury to goalkeeper Michel Kuipers, Mark McGhee was understandably upbeat after Albion took another giant stride towards safety. |
| February 5: Albion 2 Derby 3 | | 2:56pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Albion self-destructed as their undefeated run in the Championship, stretching back to before Christmas, came to an eventful end. |
| February 19: Albion 2 Sunderland 1 | | 2:51pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The only similarity between the Olympic Stadium in Rome, where Rami Shaaban played for Arsenal in the Champions League, and Withdean is a running track around the ground. |
| February 26: Albion 1 Millwall 0 | | 2:49pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Maureen Hart will be busy with the scissors, cutting up The Argus and other newspapers as a permanent reminder of her son's last-gasp exploits. |
| March 5: Stoke 2 Albion 0 | | 2:46pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | The message came through loud and clear after Albion's spot of bother on a bleak afternoon in Staffordshire. |
| March 16: Albion 2 Wigan 4 | | 2:40pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | We should have known better. Albion fans have become accustomed to exciting finishes to the season and now they are in for another. |
| March 22: Albion 0 Reading 1 | | 2:38pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Who said you make your own luck? The Gods were undeniably not on Albion's side last night in an unfortunate fourth defeat in a row. |
| April 4: Coventry 2 Albion 1 | | 2:35pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | If luck does, indeed, even itself out over the course of a season then Albion must surely be due plenty in the six matches which will decide their Championship fate. |
| April 11: Albion 1 Leicester 1 | | 2:29pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Just as Albion's relentless run of bad luck was about to continue, a Scotsman turned the relegation tide. |
| April 18: Burnley 1 Albion 1 | | 2:27pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Jake Robinson and Chris McPhee as a front pairing to face West Ham at Withdean on Saturday would have been almost unthinkable three days ago. |
| April 25: Albion 2 West Ham 2 | | 2:24pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Adam Virgo became Albion's unlikely play-off saviour at the end of last season with a last-gasp header in the semifinals against Swindon at Withdean. |
| April 30: Rotherham 0 Albion 1 | | 2:20pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Here we go again. Albion's bid to remain in the second tier of English football is going to the last Sunday, just as it did two years ago. |
| May 9: Albion 1 Ipswich 1 | | 2:16pm Tuesday 18th July 2006 | | Long after the final whistle Mark McGhee walked behind the North Stand at Withdean towards his last press conference of another nerve-shredding campaign for Albion. |
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