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Antonio in utter despair

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michail-antonio-west-ham-stoke_3387473Michail Antonio could hardly contain his ‘pain’ after the game.

The brlliant wideman had headed home his sixth of the season but Harry Kane late brace left Antonio and the team utterly devastated.

He said: “I don’t even know what to say. It was one of those games where we were in the lead and stupid mistakes have ended up with us losing.

“I feel embarrassed because we know the importance of this game to the fans. We’ve done well, we’ve got the lead, they’ve come back, we’ve got the lead again and we’ve held out until the last seven minutes of the game.

“If we’d held on, we’d have got a good win for the team, moved up the table and moved on, but instead we made mistakes. We thought we’d won the game but we switched off. That’s all I can say.

“Our gameplan was working but the last six or seven minutes we just couldn’t keep the ball out of our net.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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