Ryan Mason understands fans’ fury after West Brom lose to Bristol City

West Brom head coach Ryan Mason admitted he is “not immune” after fans turned against him during his side’s 2-1 home defeat to Bristol City 2-1 in the Sky Bet Championship.

Supporters chanted ‘Ryan Mason, your football is s***’ just after the hour after first-half goals from Anis Mehmeti and Ross McCrorie gave City the perfect start before Ousmane Diakite’s 85th-minute consolation.

“I am not immune to anything,” said Mason, who has suffered back-to-back defeats and eight straight losses on the road to leave Albion 16th. “I am not going to sit here and ask for patience.

“It’s normal. That’s football. I understand the emotion and the passion.

“If we score three of our five opportunities then the feeling, the momentum and the energy is different.

“We’ve lost too many games and with that comes frustration.

“I have played for one of the biggest teams in Europe in Tottenham and the only way to turn it around is to win games.

“I have managed Tottenham when there were protests against the ownership, talk of the Super League, there was a lot of discontent.”

Mason claimed the officials made two mistakes by allowing City’s first goal when Emil Riis was in an offside position and jumped over scorer Mehmeti’s 20-yard shot, then when only booking Mehmeti for an alleged elbow on Callum Styles shortly afterwards.

“There were two massive mistakes by the referee,” added Mason. “The first goal was clearly offside in my opinion.

“Joe (Wildsmith) would have saved it if their striker hadn’t been there – you only had to look at the foot pattern of our goalkeeper.”

Mason said of Mehmetis challenge: “Five yards from the referee, an opposition player has produced a really dangerous, reckless challenge with his elbow which caused a lot of damage and there’s no consequence.”

City head coach Gerhard Struber admitted his side were fortunate with their first goal as he celebrated a return to the top six.

“Where was the video assistant?” smiled the Austrian. “I have not seen a clip, but if it is offside, then I feel sorry. But a video assistant would help.

“It was a really efficient performance in the first half and Anis’ strike was really clean. This is the quality of him.

“I expect this from him. He has everything – he has the talent and the quality to do it at a high level.

“We showed a really good mindset from the kick-off to win this game and a confidence, which was the difference.”