At 2pm BST the Parc Olympique Lyonnais will be the venue for the France against the Republic of Ireland Euro Championship knock out match, a match which sees West Ham United team mates Dimitri Payet and Darren Randolph line up against each other. Surprisingly, apart from a cameo appearance by Angelo Agbona for Italyand some bench warming by James Collins for Wales, Payet and Randolph are Hammers only representatives at the Euro's, rather strange considering West Ham finished 7th in what is supposed to be the best football league in the world!
Perhaps England manager Roy Hodgson ignoring the likes of Mark Noble, Mikael Antonio, Aaron Cresswell and Andy Carroll might have something to do with the lack of the club's presence in France, they are the english core of a successful english side, have those who went instead of them justified Roy's decision to omit them from his squad? - Ed
