
SATURDAY evening’s lacklustre display from West Ham effectively ended any lingering hope they had of getting seventh place and qualifying for Europe.
The team selection against a travelling Everton side seemed odd from the off, with Javier Hernandez, whose double strike in the last game rescued the points, left on the bench together with skipper Mark Noble.
The manager it seemed preferred out of sorts Lucas Perez and Pedro Obiang — both substituted at half time.

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From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN

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