West Ham escaped dropping into the bottom three this afternoon by the skin of their teeth.
Result just about worked out in their favour and despite Swansea scoring an incredible 5-4 victory over Alan Pardew’s struggling Palace, that wasn’t enough to drag the Irons further down.
Hull City managed a 1-1 draw with West Brom which put them on the same 11 points as us and the south Londoners whilst Sunderland slipped to the foot of the table via a 2-0 defeat at Liverpool.
A win at Old Trafford could lift the Hammers to 13th place dependent on Stoke’s result but a draw would do little more than take them above Palace.
Given our shocking goal difference we would need to settle for that a position behind Middlesborough unless there was a Hammers goal scoring avalanche at OT.