Last-gasp Livermore has Baggies

A winner two minutes into stoppage time prodded in by Jake Livermore kept West Brom’s impossible dream alive in the most dramatic fashion imaginable.

Darren Moore’s battlers had to wait for Southampton’s result at Everton to know if they’d be able to take their amazing fightback into the final week, but this was survival football at its most basic. Tottenham dominated and Albion keeper Ben Foster was the Man of the Match but Moore’s team simply hung in there until they could capitalise on one of their trademark aerial assaults.

It was Craig Dawson’s header that initially caused the chaos. Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris blocked and then half a dozen players piled in. Livermore claimed the final touch and why wouldn’t he? He could become a club legend on the back of it.

Moore said: “It had to be a team performance to get a result like this.

“We wanted to win our last home game whatever happened elsewhere.

“We have come together, pride has been restored and there’s a feelgood factor again in the community.

“Everybody talks about my position, but when the dust settles we will sit down and make the right decision for this club.”

For Mauricio Pochettino’s team it means a nervy scramble for a Champions League with Chelsea breathing down their necks.

A few hours earlier, 47 miles up the M6, Stoke City had capitulated under the pressure of trying to stay up.

However, for Moore that’s now three wins and two draws since he took caretaker charge.

The question has to be why the Albion board didn’t make the change sooner?

Foster kept them in it in the first half, tipping