West Brom sacked head coach Eric Ramsay after just 44 days in charge, with the club sitting perilously close to the Championship relegation zone following Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw with Charlton.
Ramsay, 34, failed to win a single league game during his brief tenure, collecting just four points from a possible 24 across eight matches – a return that ultimately made his position untenable. Assistant head coach Dennis Lawrence has also left The Hawthorns.
In a statement, the club said: “West Bromwich Albion have parted company with men’s first team head coach Eric Ramsay. The club would like to place on record its thanks to Eric and Dennis and wishes them well for the future.”
First-team coach James Morrison steps into the breach on an interim basis for the second time this season, with a daunting trip to fellow relegation strugglers Oxford on Saturday his first assignment.
Ramsay inherited a side sitting 18th but still seven points clear of the bottom three when he replaced Ryan Mason. That cushion has been almost entirely eroded, and Albion now sit just a single point above the drop zone with 12 games remaining.
Supporter patience ran out some time ago. A 3-0 defeat at Portsmouth angered the fanbase, and during Saturday’s 2-0 home loss to Coventry the terraces rang out with chants of ‘You’re getting sacked in the morning’ and ‘Eric Ramsay, your football is s***’.
Tuesday’s draw with Charlton, in which George Campbell’s header ended a 405-minute goal drought before Lyndon Dykes levelled for the visitors, proved the final straw.
Ramsay had appeared defiant in his final press conference, insisting: “I am not sat here on the back of five losses where the team has not been competitive. Over the last four league games, the team has been competitive, it’s fighting and I don’t feel there’s a lack of connection between me and the team.”
