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Slav tells team they must take some blame

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HappybilicSlaven Bilic – whilst bitterly disappointed late ‘penalty that never was ‘- has half suggested the Irons only had themselves to blame for yesterday’s draw at Stamford Bridge.

Our  manager has always told it as it is and usually refuses to apportion blame on officials or anything else accepting the game’s variables with common sense, honesty and balance.

Such is the case again with the boss suggesting we should have put the game to bed some time before  we faced another falling over trick from an opposition player.

I wonder what on earth Louis Van Gaal would have had to say about that one!

Instead Slav declared:  “I know that we deserved more than a draw. We were the better team for the majority of the game.”

And then came the rub as he suggested the team had been guilty of over-playing at times saying: “At times we were playing too sexy and not penetrating enough but we should’ve scored a third. To concede a goal that late was gutting.”

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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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  • Muckracker says:

    Now thats the kind of talk l love to hear.Honest self appraisal, to see what we could have done better to negate the negative influences.

    No use in blaming the officials. We just need to be more clinical and put away our chances, and to cut out the clumsy fouls and lunges in dangerous areas so that we dont give the refs an excuse to point to the spot.

    We will never mix it with the big boys otherwise, moan and groan all you like.

  • bubs says:

    Which big boys
    Manure no defeats this season
    Man city 2 wins
    Chelski no defeats
    Arsenal 1 win out of 1
    Liverpoor 3 wins 1 draw
    Spuds 1 win 1 loss
    Maybe that might be mixing it a little
    But Slav is great fall stop

  • BrookingtoDevonshire says:

    I agree but I also think O’Brien should of come on at right back,pushed Antonio up. We would of been more balanced in the final stages.

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