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Stephane Sessegnon is heading for the axe at West Brom - after storming out of St James’s Park and catching a £380 taxi back home from Newcastle.

The Benin international has placed his career at the Black Country club in jeopardy after his emotions ran away with him on Tyneside last week.

Trouble started when club boss Tony Pulis named his 18-man squad to face the Magpies - and Sessegnon’s name was omitted.

This was the final straw for the African forward who then stomped out of the visitors’ dressing-room, walking straight to the nearest free taxi outside the stadium.

A bemused city cabbie was asked to transport him back to the west Midlands - and was only too happy to oblige once he realised who was in the car - with the clock ticking over to £380 once the player returned to the Midlands.

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Sessegnon sat and stewed in the cab during the four-hour journey home as his team-mates ground out a vital point that secured the club’s Premier League status for the fifth successive season.

It has been rumoured for some time that the forward had been earmarked for the chop by Pulis this summer.

But now that decision appears to have been taken for the club’s Welsh boss.

Sessegnon has been fit but has been left out of the final 18 since last month when he played his final match for Pulis as an 85th-minute substitute during the 2-3 home defeat by Leicester City.

West Brom refused to comment on the matter last night.