West Brom sack Alan Irvine

West Brom have confirmed that Alan Irvine  has been sacked as the club’s manager following defeat against Stoke City.

Alan Irvine has managed to won four matches  of  nineteen league games this season sitting at number 16th position in the League table.

On 14 June 2014 West Bromwich Albion announced that Irvine would fill their vacant head coach role on a 12-month rolling contract, his first management work in the Premier League.

In his first league match in charge on 16 August, West Bromwich Albion drew 2–2 at home against Sunderland. It was not until his fifth league match, on 21 September, that they won a league match, James Morrison heading the only goal to defeat Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.  A week later, he got his first home league victory, 4–0 against Burnley at The Hawthorns. It was the team's biggest league win since 2012 and moved them up seven places in the league to 10th. Irvine's time in charge also saw West Bromwich Albion forward Saido Berahino called into the senior England team after scoring 7 goals in 10 league matches.

After only seven months in the role, on 29 December 2014, Irvine was sacked by West Bromwich Albion, with team were lying in 16th position in the Premier League having won only four of nineteen league games under his managership, and just 1 point off the relegation zone^.