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FA to investigate West Ham crowd trouble

To make matters worse for the Hammers, they threw away a 2-0 lead in front of their own fans – to lose 4-2 to Watford in their most recent outing.

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In relation to the Watford match, West Ham reported that 10 individuals were ejected from the stadium and no arrests were made.

The capitulation by Slaven Bilic’s team sparked trouble among sections of the West Ham support.

West Ham’s collapse allowed new Watford manager Walter Mazzarri to claim his first win of the campaign.

“At half-time, we spoke with the players, we adjusted a couple of things”.

The 27-year-old Nigerian is yet to score in the Premier League this season and has managed just four goals in his last 21 games for the club.

The defeat is a third of the league season for West Ham, who sit 17th in the fledgling standings and have already crashed out of the Europa League. We can’t concede that kind of goal then, especially after the second one, it didn’t decide the game but it changed a lot.

“If we defend like this, we aren’t going to win a single game”. The ball is met by Antonio in the air and after taking a deflection off a Watford player the ball drifts past Gomes into his net.

Republic of Ireland global midfielder Jeff Hendrick, a record signing for Burnley, came on with 15 minutes to go to make his debut for the Clarets.

“In the second half we didn’t have that space behind them”.

Ten minutes later and Watford had gone further ahead, Holebas rounding off a move he started – dispossessing a now very quiet Payet – although Adrian could have done better in trying to deny him.

A minute later, Ighalo’s goal-bound shot took a slight deflection and went wide.

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The rush for the exits soon got under way, which was hardly a vote of confidence in the team.

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