5 English clubs you probably didn't know were once top-flight league champions

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#3 West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion v Hull City - Premier League
The Baggies - West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion is today associated with Tony Pulis, who got sacked earlier today! Tony Pulis is usually associated with negative football. Negative football is boring. West Bromwich Albion have been boring.

The club is so dull that their fans have begun calling for a relegation just so that there is some drama at the Hawthorns! Many believe that watching paint dry is more exciting than the football served up by last season's top-half finishing Albion.

So it comes as a shock to most people that West Brom were the second club in history to score a hundred goals in a league season! They did this in 1919-20, (joining Sunderland in the hundred goals a season club) on the way to their first and till date only league title in history.

West Bromwich Albion had a reputation of being a very attacking and fluid side in the 1950s and were close to winning a league and cup double for the first time in England for any club in 1953-54, but ended up losing the league title to Wolverhampton Wanderers, with some key players suffering injuries.

They still won the FA Cup though, a feat which they repeated in 1958 to add to three FA Cups won earlier.

A League Cup win in 1966 remains their last trophy and the success is now long forgotten. It is unfortunate to see such a great club in the doldrums right now. The Hawthorns deserve a bit of entertainment and with Baggies ex-boss Tony Pulis being shown the door, with the club currently in 17th, attacking football can't be too far away

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