Match reports 2003/2004
| June 1: Albion 1 Bristol City 0 | | 3:06pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Danny Cullip was the first player in blue and white stripes many Albion fans in Cardiff would have glimpsed yesterday. |
| May 16: Swindon 0 Albion 1 | | 2:56pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Mark McGhee will today draw up the masterplan which can turn this most precious of away wins into another trip down the M4 and a play-off final appearance. |
| May 8: Wrexham 0 Albion 2 | | 2:53pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | It is a well proven theory. The team entering the play-offs in the best frame of mind often emerge victorious. |
| May 1: Albion 1 Notts County 0 | | 2:51pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Albion supporters with their tickets already booked for the play-offs can expect more of what they saw in the narrow victory which has secured their place in the end-of-season lottery. |
| April 17: Albion 1 Peterborough 0 | | 2:45pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Start consulting your diaries. Only an improbable set of circumstances can deny Albion a play-off place now after a solid eighth home win out of nine. |
| April 12: Albion 0 Rushden 0 | | 2:43pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Crazy isn't it? A depressing deadlock against a team nosediving towards the relegation zone has actually improved Albion's prospects of reaching the play-offs. |
| April 10: Blackpool 3 Albion 1 | | 2:41pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Albion went into today's seaside showdown against Blackpool at Bloomfield Road without their talismanic captain Danny Cullip. |
| April 3: Albion 2 Hartlepool 0 | | 2:37pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Mark McGhee, take a bow. A clever piece of motivation, straight from the manual of his mentor Alex Ferguson, left his leading marksman with a point to prove. |
| March 27: Sheffield Wednesday 2 Albion 1 | | 2:34pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Mark McGhee is clinging on to the belief that Albion can finish in second place after a set of results epitomising the tension of chasing promotion. |
| March 16: Chesterfield 0 Albion 2 | | 2:28pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Chris Iwelumo could not in his wildest dreams have imagined making a more dramatic impact on his debut for Albion. |
| March 13: Port Vale 1 Albion 1 | | 2:25pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Only Albion's third point from the last 24 away from Withdean meant so much more in the arduous quest for a play-off place. |
| March 10: Albion 3 Tranmere 0 | | 2:22pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | First the good news. Leon Knight and Trevor Benjamin were back on top form at Withdean as Albion swept aside a Tranmere team with other matters on their minds. |
| February 28: Stockport 1 Albion 1 | | 2:15pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Adam Virgo's star sign is rising by the day but he was upstaged by another of Albion's young prospects. |
| February 14: Grimsby 2 Albion 1 | | 2:09pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Just over a fortnight ago their goals sunk leaders Plymouth at Withdean and they looked like a promotion-securing partnership. |
| February 10: Luton 2 Albion 0 | | 2:07pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Earlier in the day the Whitehall offices of deputy Prime Minister John Prescott were bombarded with flowers as part of the campaign for Falmer. |
| February 7: Wycombe 1 Albion 1 | | 2:04pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | He may have an ordinary name but a quite extraordinary sequence of events has plunged Stuart Jones into the thick of Albion's challenge for a play-off place. |
| January 31: Albion 2 Plymouth 1 | | 2:00pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | It is more than two years since Micky Adams left Albion for Leicester, but the bond he developed with his old club is as strong as ever. |
| January 24: Albion 1 Barnsley 0 | | 1:58pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Football has an unwritten rule that what goes around comes around. Luck, legend decrees, evens itself out over the course of a season. |
| January 17: QPR 2 Albion 1 | | 1:56pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Charlie Oatway is resigned to some friendly ribbing from members of his family in the next few weeks, but roles could so easily have been reversed. |
| January 10: Albion 0 Oldham 0 | | 1:53pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Albion's failure to score at Withdean for only the second time this season emphasised an absence of strength in depth to sustain an automatic promotion challenge. |
| January 10: Albion 0 Oldham 0 | | 1:37pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Running out of time: McGhee tries in vain to urge his players on during a frustrating afternoon at Withdean
Albion's failure to score at Withdean for only the second time this season emphasised an absence of strength in depth to sustain an automatic promotion challenge. |
| December 26: Albion 4 Wycombe 0 | | 12:28pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Before this Boxing Day feast it would have been unthinkable, but Leon Knight's place is suddenly under threat. |
| December 20: Tranmere 1 Albion 0 | | 12:26pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Much of the work Mark McGhee has done since becoming Albion's manager has concentrated on the shape of the side and the defence. |
| December 7: QPR 2 Albion 1 | | 12:22pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Albion's narrow exit from the LDV Vans Trophy was overshadowed by a simmering feud which has developed with promotion rivals Rangers. |
| November 29: Albion 2 Wrexham 0 | | 12:20pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | The messages have taken a little while to sink in, but Mark McGhee is gradually moulding Albion back into shape. |
| November 22: Notts Co 1 Albion 2 | | 12:18pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | One question dominated the post match inquests after Albion had lit up a grey Nottingham afternoon with their sparkling attacking work. |
| November 4: Albion 3 Boston 1 (AET) | | 12:11pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Every cloud has a silver lining and that was certainly the case for Albion in Mark McGhee's first home match in charge at rainswept Withdean. |
| October 25: Albion 0 Stockport 1 | | 12:05pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | The Albion players, to their credit, have consistently refused to use it as an excuse, but Sammy McIlroy spoke the truth which is plain for all to see. |
| October 21: Brentford 4 Albion 0 | | 12:03pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | It was like a red rag to a bull. Micky Adams could not believe what he was hearing on his way back from a scouting mission at Bournemouth. |
| October 18: Bournemouth 1 Albion 0 | | 12:01pm Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Gary Hart summed up Albion's third League defeat of the season in five words - "We let the manager down". |
| October 11: Albion 3 Grimsby 0 | | 11:56am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Bob Booker continued where Steve Coppell left off as he launched his bid to take over the Albion hot seat. |
| October 4: Albion 3 Blackpool 0 | | 11:54am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Chris McPhee made a convincing case for a regular place with the first double of his career. |
| September 30: Rushden 1 Albion 3 | | 11:51am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Zeshan Rehman made the kind of debut of which dreams are made as makeshift Albion marched to their first away League victory since the opening day of the season. |
| September 16: Albion 1 Chesterfield 0 | | 11:43am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Leon Knight celebrated his 21st birthday with a dream finish to get Albion back on the winning track against rock bottom Chesterfield. |
| September 6: Albion 2 Swindon 2 | | 11:38am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Steve Coppell, a keen golfer, described Albion as "a team on a tee peg" after a fluctuating stalemate against the best side they have played this season. |
| August 30: Plymouth 3 Albion 3 | | 11:36am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | You might have expected Steve Coppell to be crestfallen after the dramatic finish to this frenetic thriller. |
| August 25: Albion 2 Luton 0 | | 11:34am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | It wasn't particularly pretty and it was decided by two untidy goals, but there were a couple of very good reasons for Albion boss Steve Coppell to rejoice in another three home points. |
| August 23: Barnsley 1 Albion 0 | | 11:31am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Anyone misguided enough to think Albion were going to romp away with the Second Division after their flying start received a reality check via this first defeat of the season. |
| August 18: Albion 2 QPR 1 | | 11:28am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Little Leon Knight proved again that size does not matter as Albion came from behind to topple the title favourites. |
| August 9: Oldham 1 Albion 3 | | 11:19am Wednesday 19th July 2006 | | Steve Coppell greeted Albion's first victory at Oldham for 24 years with typical candour. |
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