Wanderers 1, WEST BROM 1: EL Hadj-Diouf hit home an 85th minute equaliser at the Reebok as Wanderers desperately avoided a seventh succesive Premiership defeat.

It only confirmed Wanderers' second-half pressure which included seeing Jay Jay Okocha hitting the woodwork with a trademark 72nd minute free-kick.

Earlier, it was unlucky 13 for Wanderers when bottom club West Brom took the lead in the 13th minute through Zolton Gera.

Wanderers, after losing six games on the bounce, could not afford to lose again, and certainly not to the Baggies, whose only Premiership victory was in the corresponding fixture earlier in the season at The Hawthorns.

Team News: Jussi Jaaskelainen was the surprise omission as Sam Allardyce made three changes from the side that lost to Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday.

Kevin Nolan and Ivan Campo returned at the expense of Stelios and Henrik Pedersen,

But it was the absence of the regular Wanderers keeper, who was replaced by veteran Kevin Poole,that had the fans talking prior to the game especially as he has reputedly been a transfer target for some of the big clubs.

Wanderers: Poole, Hunt, Gardner, Nolan, Jaidi, N'Gotty, Speed, Campo, Davies, Okocha(C), Diouf. Subs: Oakes, Pedersen, Hierro, Ben Haim, Vaz Te

West Bromwich Albion: Hoult, Scimeca, Robinson, Purse(C), Greening, Horsfield, Jonson, Gera, Clement, Wallwork, Kanu. Subs: Koumas, Albrechtsen, Hulse, Kusczak, Earnshaw

Video cameras the answer - Sam

SAM Allardyce believes the Boxing Day incident involving Tel Ben Haim and Wayne Rooney could accelerate the introduction of television cameras to decide major decisions.

Allardyce says it is wrong that cameras can be used to sort out disciplinary incidents which referees do not see but not to help officials during games.

Israeli defender Haim will face a Football Association charge of improper conduct for allegedly feigning injury after Manchester United striker Rooney pushed him in the face at Old Trafford.

Referee Dermot Gallagher and his officials all missed the incident but the charge of violent conduct against Rooney and the lesser charge against Haim were made on the basis of camera evidence.

Allardyce believes all the fuss that has been made over the incident is out of perspective but he hopes it will have the silver lining of bringing video help for referees during games a step closer.

He said: "It is a minor incident compared with a lot of what happens on a football pitch

"The only positive thing about it all is that we will hopefully get cameras to decide the major decisions.

"If we are using 15 cameras at games then we have to make sure we use them to get decisions that are fair and square for everyone in the Premiership.

"We should take it that one step further which will take away the wrong decisions we get in games now.

"If we got instant visual evidence the game would benefit.

"Anyone who tells me using cameras to help referees would not work is antiquated because everyone else is doing it in other sports.

"Fans turning to look at a scoreboard to see what decision is made will not effect the excitement of a game.

"Referees need the help. The game is so quick that it is very difficult for them to see everything and to get every decision right.

"Players these days are close to being as quick as Olympic sprinters in many cases. They are elite athletes."