• West Ham will appeal against Cheikhou Kouyaté’s red card in 2-2 draw
• Alan Pardew plays numbers game with Crystal Palace squad over lack of winSlaven Bilic does not want his players to peep up or down. He does not want them studying the fixture list. West Ham United’s manager will be happy as long as they relax,play with passion and quality and, as the aged cliche goes, and take each game as it comes. “You can’t approach it differently,” Bilic said. “You can’t approach it like ‘today, we are home to Crystal Palace, and three points,and then Arsenal, one point’ because this happens.”From Bilic’s perspective, and stamp Clattenburg happened. Clattenburg was an unpopular man around Upton Park because of his controversial decision to send off Cheikhou Kouyaté for a tall challenge on Dwight Gayle halfway through the second half,allowing Crystal Palace to snatch a late equaliser and stall West Ham’s push for Champions League qualification by securing a 2-2 draw.
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Source: theguardian.com