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Pre-match cognac shots, Al Pacino speeches and a trip to Disney World in Florida... how West Brom pulled off the Premier League's greatest escape

This Sunday would have been the last day of the Premier League season, so this week we are looking back at some of the top flight’s most memorable finales. Here, in the second of our series, SIMON JONES takes us back 15 years to the Hawthorns and West Bromwich Albion’s great escape...

Fuelled by a nip of Cognac and armed with a hero who had spent the previous night knocking down walls, West Brom were ready to attempt the great escape. No-one gave them a chance. No team bottom of the Premier League at Christmas had ever stayed up and this lot were still bottom on the season's final day.