West Bromwich Albion and Tottenham Hotspur - A Match Made In Heaven?
After forty-two days and a lacklustre end to the season, Albion finally have a new Head Coach at the helm, and it's one of their youngest in the club's storied history. Former Spurs coach Ryan Mason has moved into full-time management for the first time, signing a three-year deal at the young age of thirty-three (the youngest Coach/Manager in the Championship). Mason spent eight years as a player at White Heart Lane, scoring two fifty-three league games, and in that time, earned a solo cap for England. He then moved on to Hull City, but after a head injury in a game against Chelsea, he suffered a career-ending injury. He then turned to coaching and served his apprenticeship at Spurs, working with a who's who of top coaches: Poch, Mourinho, Nuno, Conte, and Ange. This has allowed him to pick the brains of all of them, and this should hopefully have given him food for thought on how he wants his Albion side to be set up. He's not the first Tottenham alumnus to take the re...