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West Brom boss Irvine disappointed being barracked by home fans

West Bromwich Albion boss Alan Irvine was upset being barracked by home fans during defeat to Arsenal.

Home fans also chanted "You don't know what you're doing" towards head coach Alan Irvine after he replaced Stephane Sessegnon with Georgios Samaras.

"It's not nice to hear it but people have their own opinions and it very nearly worked," said Irvine of the substitution.

"We looked as if we might score when perhaps we didn't look like scoring too many times prior to the changes. Had it worked perhaps people would have had a different judgement.

"We got close to getting something. We were committing a lot of people forward and put Arsenal under pressure at the end. We started the game well and Arsenal looked a threat on the counter but then we lost that control."

Irvine also rued an offside call after Berahino was stopped as he looked to run clean through at the start of the second half, despite looking onside.

He said: "It's two weeks in a row (after Diego Costa scored against them from an offside position), two big decisions have gone against us. People make mistakes but you could do without them. It makes the job against teams like Chelsea and Arsenal that much harder."

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