I’VE BEEN TO HELL AND BAGG

Sam: Will I stay? That is not a discussion until our fate is decided. Hopefully we can still pull off a miracle

WEST BROM WOLVES The Hawthorns, 6pm

SAM ALLARDYCE has gone through “hell” at West Brom but has pledged to see the season out and then review his future.

Allardyce insists Albion will fight until the end ahead of tonight’s Black Country derby at home to Wolves.

But he knows the odds are stacked against his side, who are 11 points adrift of safety with a dire goal difference.

Allardyce, 66, who joined in December with assistant Sammy Lee to replace Slaven Bilic, said: “The first two months are always hell but working through the hell is what it’s all about.

“Particularly Sammy and I, we have been together so long now, we know what it’s about and what we have to do. We try to do it the best we can. The sad thing is we’re not much closer to being out of trouble. We’ve done all we can.

“The players’ performances have consistently got better but sadly we haven’t got enough wins.”

Albion have just five games left and may have to win them all to have a chance of survival and not avoid an immediate drop back into the Championship.

Allardyce said: “I’d hate to go into the last few games with our fate sealed. But the only way to get me out of here is to sack me. I will see it out to the very end, no matter what.

“I want us to get to the last game and still have a chance. We have got some difficult games as everybody knows.

“But we beat Chelsea, we have drawn with Man United. Let’s do the double over Wolves and go and then try and beat Arsenal.”

Allardyce signed an 18month contract at The Hawthorns with a survival bonus but there is a break clause in the event of relegation. He said: “Do I stay? That is not a discussion we can have until our fate is decided.

“Hopefully I am staying, absolutely certainly, if we can pull off this miracle and stay in the Premier League.

“Otherwise it depends on what we can come together on and what we can agree in terms of what we need to get back in the Premier League at the first time of asking.

“If that’s what the club want to do and what I want to do, there are certain criteria we both have to meet, as there were when I joined.

“Both sides have to agree to say, ‘This is the way forward’.”