West Brom 0, West Ham 0: Full Time Report
West Brom came within inches of a victory at Upton Park that would have breathed life into their Barclays Premier League survival fight.
Shelton Martis hit the bar at Upton Park and Jonathan Greening missed the clearest chance of a lifeless clash - and Tony Mowbray's men will consider the stalemate as two points dropped.
The draw moved them six points from safety but it could so easily have been a first top-flight win in London after 10 failed attempts.
Gianfranco Zola's men, on the other hand, missed the chance to get closer to sixth place.
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They also had the chance to win three league matches in a row for the first time since their unlikely relegation escape two years ago when Carlos Tevez guided them to safety.
On the day that saga was declared over - with the Hammers and Sheffield United finally coming to an agreement - it looked like the Baggies were at the start of staging an amazing recovery.
But in terms of entertainment, it was abysmal.
Marc-Antoine Fortune, playing in attack on his own for the visitors, smashed an effort into the side-netting but that was the sum total of the early chances.
The Baggies had gone eight previous games without a clean sheet so Mowbray tried a new centre-back pairing - Jonas Olsson returned from a knee injury and Martis was given his first top-flight start.
Mowbray's selection appeared to tighten his defence, although it made for dull football.
