PLAYER PROFILE ROMAINE SAWYERS WEST BROM MIDFIELDER

By Chris Dunlavy

IN CONTROL: West Brom’s Romaine Sawyers in the 1-0 victory at Middlesbrough last weekend

ROMAINE Sawyers is an Arsenal fan, so he understands very well how body language can influence perception.
Like Mesut Ozil, the Gunners’ highly-paid yet perpetually absent playmaker, Sawyers’ gait and demeanour has frequently attracted criticism. Too lazy. Too casual. A player blessed, in the words of former boss Dean Smith, with a “Premier League brain” but seemingly lacking in lower league brawn.
As a...