In the end it they made it a little more difficult than it should have been, but West Brom rendered Saido Berahino’s return to the Hawthorns an irrelevance. A sixth-minute goal by James Morrison was just enough for Tony Pulis’s side to eke out a 1-0 victory over Stoke City, and despite hanging on a little in the last few minutes, the Potters hardly threatened.
Berahino virtually spent more time trying to leave West Brom than actually playing for them, so in the event of his return to the Hawthorns, a few weeks after signing for Stoke, his welcome back was hardly going to be warm. Before the game Berahino’s shots in the warm-up were greeted with cheers or boos from either set of fans, and a committed few home spectators even jeered his every touch as he kept loose at half-time. His pre-match promise not to celebrate should he score – moot, as it turned out – did not soften attitudes among his former fans.
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