{"id":308479,"date":"2025-12-10T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:03:08","slug":"i-wouldnt-be-sitting-here-angry-ryan-mason-addresses-pressure-on-west-brom-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308479\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t be sitting here&#8217; &#8211; Angry Ryan Mason addresses pressure on West Brom role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baggies boss was left seething with his side&#8217;s abysmal first-half display at Southampton that left them 3-0 and starring down the barrel of a seventh straight away defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Two second-half goals put the visitors in a position to claim an improbable point but Albion fell short with the heat and scrutiny further increased on beleaguered boss Mason, who cut a visibly angry yet defiant figure in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained his belief he could turn around the fortunes at the club but added an understanding for what comes with unacceptable form.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he was the man to turn around 16th-placed Albion&#8217;s poor form, Mason replied: &#8220;Yeah, I do. Otherwise, trust me, I wouldn&#8217;t be sitting here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe. I probably believe in this group more than they believe in themselves at the minute. I have massive belief in the group, absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have massive belief in what we&#8217;re doing. But of course, I understand football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baggies boss was left seething with his side&#8217;s abysmal first-half display at Southampton that left them 3-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,217,101,56,54,55,29406],"class_list":{"0":"post-308479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}