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Cherries fired to victory by Hammers penalty decision

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Bournemouth’s Charlie Daniels has revealed it was a sense of injustice which fired up the second half comeback which accounted for the Irons on Saturday.

After Nathan Ake had a penalty awarded against him after being deemed to have fouled Chicharito  referee Stuart Attwell, later turned down Cherries’ appeals for a penalty after a David Brooks cross had appeared to strike the arm of Fabian Balbuena

Daniels explained “We felt a bit of injustice with the penalty but the referee gave it and he could only give what he saw.

“Then, there was the debatable penalty we should have had with the handball right at the end of the half, which he didn’t give.

“We we came into the changing room and discussed what we wanted our season to be. We said the next 45 minutes could have been a real decider about what we could achieve.

“West Ham is a place we needed to come and win if we wanted to move up to the next level. I think that showed with our second-half performance.”

All well and good but perhaps his sense of injustice would have been a lot keener has he been a Hammer when Callum Wilson and Bobby Madley between them cheated us out a win at their gaff last Boxing Day!

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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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  • hammers64 says:

    What Short memories these players have.That Wilson goal in the 3-3 draw at their ground was one of the worst decisions i have seen ,Its no wonder Madley has retired.

  • Hammer64 says:

    And they managed to do their cheating in the last minute of extra time.

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