HUDDERSFIELD

ALAN PARDEW has pleaded for a five-match stay of execution at West Brom.

The Baggies are careering towards the Championship like a stolen taxi with its brakes cut – and Pardew knows his neck is on the line after managing just one win in his 14 games in charge.

Full credit to David Wagner’s dogged Huddersfield, who hit the fragile home side with two goals early in the second half.

West Brom probably need to win at least six of their remaining games – hard to see when they have only won one of their last 26.

Pardew is just hoping the club’s Chinese owners will give him the chance to oversee games against Watford (a), Leicester (h), Bournemouth (a), Burnley (h) and Swansea (h).

“This team has won three games in 37 game which says everything,” said Pardew. “My job is to try to get ourselves up for next week and win away from home and that’s what we will try to do.”

Christopher Schindler helped Huddersfield extend the gap over the bottom club to 10 points with this victory and said: “I think for them now it’s going to be really, really tough. If you can’t win these games you have no right to stay in the top flight.

“We are still in a serious situation but we are still in a position where we can help ourselves and that’s really important and we’re in a really crucial point of the season.”

Early second-half mistakes gifted goals to Rajiv van La Parra and Steve Mounie and from then on it was always going to be uphill for West Brom.

Craig Dawson, who was one of a handful of players to emerge with any credit, gave them hope with a great 64th-minute header but the Terriers held on. How