{"id":558892,"date":"2026-04-30T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:16:08","slug":"james-morrison-appointed-albion-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/558892\/","title":{"rendered":"James Morrison appointed Albion Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morrison said: \u201cI\u2019m honoured and humbled to have been appointed head coach of this great football club.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe togetherness we have displayed in recent months \u2013 as players, staff, directors and fans \u2013 shows the enormous power of the Albion when it\u2019s focused on a collective goal.\u00a0We must now use that passion and energy to set the club back on course for success.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, my focus is on preparing the team for our final game at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday \u2013 but to go to Hillsborough knowing our fate has already been settled on the pitch is down to the hard work of everyone at The Hawthorns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank everyone for their efforts during my time as interim \u2013 not least the fans who backed us to safety. I will never forget the end to\u00a0the\u00a0Ipswich game when it felt like it was us against the world, with the atmosphere off the pitch matching the efforts of the players on it. Here\u2019s to more of that, please.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morrison said: \u201cI\u2019m honoured and humbled to have been appointed head coach of this great football club.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-558892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558892","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=558892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}