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Shearer hammers Atkinson over Cressie

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al-shearerAlan Shearer hasn’t always been West Ham’s best friend but he came onside this weekend describing the Irons victory over Palace ” thoroughly deserved.”

And like the rest of the country he condemned two outrageous decisions against Aaron Cresswell who is quite clearly one of the cleanest and fairest players in the Premier League.

Commentating on the left back’s sending off he said: ““They were two terrible decisions. Cabaye on Cresswell, he books him for diving, that is ridiculous. He clips him, it should be a penalty. There is no way that’s a dive.

“Then 55 seconds later, one-on-one against Zaha, I’m not even sure it’s a foul let alone a booking. Two terrible decisions.”

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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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4 comments

  • jimbo says:

    Or perhaps a case of mistaken identity Slav? I hear Atkinson’s eye sight isn’t all it used to be! Whatever his rationale, Michael is right and he should fess up and correct his mistakes.

  • slaven a laugh says:

    The psychology of it was that Antonio did a theatrical dive. Then cresswell went down. The referee was subconsciously reacting to the Antonio dive. Watch it back and you will see what I mean.

  • Michael Miller says:

    I’ll ask the question again for the umpteenth – I know it’s in the rules that you can’t appeal a yellow but why not?

    No idea, particularly when like in this situation West Ham have been denied a penalty wrongly, had a player sent off wrongly and now have to play the next game without that player – to say we’ve been hard done by is a massive understatement, we’ve been well and truly screwed!

    Oh, and why can’t Mr Atkinson voluntarily admit that he made a mistake, surely that would be the right thing to do!

  • cas_blue says:

    I thought Cresswell acted with dignity and professionalism. He didn’t make a fuss when he was clearly fouled and booked for diving. Then Cabaye had the audacity to gob off to him all the way back to the halfway line.

    Then for the foul that was non-existent Cabaye kept waving and pointing the way off the pitch and then shoved him. Cresswell did well not to react. Shows what a good player he is in temperament as well as skill.

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