{"id":654825,"date":"2025-12-25T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:54:16","slug":"west-brom-v-bristol-city-festive-double-header-hands-chance-at-home-comforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654825\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom v Bristol City: Festive double-header hands chance at home comforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baggies\u00a0<\/a>have a Christmas opportunity for some more home comforts with a double-header beginning against Bristol City on Boxing Day and Queens Park Rangers next Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawthorns is certainly proving to be more comfortable surroundings for Mason and his side.<\/p>\n<p>Albion&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/12\/23\/west-brom-boss-condemns-dreadful-form-but-stays-optimistic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">desperate away form<\/a> sees them unable to improve on 16th in the Championship, but there has been just one league defeat at The Hawthorns this term, back on September 13, and Mason&#8217;s team are now unbeaten in seven meetings there since, winning four of those.<\/p>\n<p>There is, clearly, a different and more positive energy surrounding the Baggies when they play at The Hawthorns &#8211; even despite dwindling attendances and, at times, a muted and frustrated backdrop from the stands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Potentially, I hope so,&#8221; Mason said when asked about a confidence going into home games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, our home ground with our fans is really important to us and we need to try and continue to make it count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baggies\u00a0have a Christmas opportunity for some more home comforts with a double-header beginning against Bristol City on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,94,4884,93,16,15,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-654825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115782671581661387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}