Paul McShane revealed today he loved being the villain of Albion's 1-1 draw at ten-man Queens Park Rangers.

Kevin Gallen, Rangers' skipper and long-serving striker, was sent-off for the first time in his career after punching McShane off-the-ball early in the second half.

McShane was booed relentlessly by the Loftus Road crowd for the rest of the game but it was water off a duck's back to the on-loan Manchester United centre half.

"You expect that," he said. "I didn't play. He hit me in the eye with a punch and I went down and they didn't like that.

"I've experienced that before when I was on loan at Walsall. I played at Brentford and took one of their best players out after about 20 minutes and I got it through the whole game then.

"It's good experience to come through those sort of games. I relish that sort of stuff. I like the bad guys in films, it's great.

"Growing up at Manchester United you get a lot of jealousy. That's totally different to when 13,000 people are on your back but that's part of football and you relish those sort of situations.

"You've just got to keep playing, because if you bottle it then the crowd have won. The minute it happened I tried to get on the ball as quick as I could and just get the first boo over, because I knew it was coming.

"Every time I got the ball I was booed. I was getting used to it and the crowd didn't win at the end of the day."

Marcus Bignot's late own goal gifted Albion their first away point for nine games after Gareth Ainsworth's early header for Rangers but they are seven points adrift of safety with seven games to go following Sheffield Wednesday's 2-0 home win over Preston.

McShane admitted: "It's disappointing that Sheffield Wednesday won. We've just got to keep going.

"We've still got to play them. If we beat them it's down to four and let's see what they are like under pressure.

"I can see them cracking and I've always said I can see us getting out of it. I see the attitude of the lads every day and I see we can play football. We've just been unlucky.

"Pressure is building but it's great for the young lads at this club to deal with the pressure. At half-time we got a right bollocking off Bob Booker (assistant manager) and that's great to see.

"He was really passionate. It goes to show a lot of people care at the club about our position. There is pressure but football is a pressure job and that's what you have signed up for. The more pressure the better."