“Season of goodwill – it certainly isn’t today,” were the thoughts of Nigel Pearson after Bristol City’s toothless 2-0 defeat to West Brom on Boxing Day on one of the darkest days of the City manager’s tenure so far.
There were the first chants of “sacked in the morning” and although we’re not quite at the point of bedsheets displaying ‘Lansdown get your Pearson out’, it certainly feels as though the tide is turning against the man in the dugout.
With goals in each half from Matthew Phillips and Brandon Thomas-Asante, helped once more by moments of defensive frailty from City that have become a matter of when not if in recent weeks, the Baggies were deserved winners.
