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Cruel Finish Kicks Hammers When Down by Dominic Fifield

If this proves to have been the last rites for West Ham in the Premiership, then never can they have been read so thrillingly. A breathless contest careered to the cruellest of finales, the tap-in which secured Tottenham unlikely victory surely slicing the home side too far adrift from safety... The Guardian

West Ham Hurt By Final Punch by Matt Dickinson

For one afternoon, and one afternoon only, it was possible to feel sympathy for West Ham United’s players. So many of their problems this season have been self-inflicted but, if this was the game that as good as confirmed their relegation from the Barclays Premiership, it was a cruel way to go... The Times

West Ham Fall At Last To Spoil Tevez's Big Day by Sam Wallace

The gambling, the divisions in the dressing room and Anton Ferdinand flying to America for a night out when he said he was visiting his grandmother - a club in pieces. And that was before West Ham lost this remarkable game in injury-time yesterday in the most extraordinary circumstances... The Independent

West Ham Stunned By Stalteri Strike by Henry Winter

As the final whistle rang out like the Last Post, West Ham fans were too numb to show disapproval at an extraordinary defeat that shoves them towards the Championship. Usually so passionate, they meekly filed out into the night like mourners from a church, all hope buried. "We'll never play you again,'' crowed those with cockerels on their chests... The Telegraph

Heartbreaker For Hammers by Matt Lawton

Not even their most prominent gambling addicts would back West Ham to stay up now. Not even at any one of the bookmakers that responded to recent reports by promoting themselves on Upton Park's electronic advertising hoardings yesterday... Daily Mail