Parkin: Baggies will set benchmark

06 July 2009 11:14
The Baggies won the division in 2007-08 but finished bottom of the Premier League last term to make a swift return to the second tier of English football. Tony Mowbray has since quit the Baggies to take over at Celtic but Roberto Di Matteo is being tipped to engineer a strong challenge this season. Parkin, whose side reached the play-off semi-finals last season, said: "I think West Brom have got to be the favourites this season. "Every year they are in this division they seem to be the team to beat and I don't think this season will be any different. "They've got a lot of quality players and, while they struggled at times in the Premier League, they are very good at this level."

Source: Team_Talk