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Sometimes it's hard to be a 'realistic' Hammer, the reality of being a mid table team is that the club more often than not has to feed off scraps. So when the next transfer window opens, Tim Steidten will be set the unenviable task of making a 'silk(man) purse out of a sow's ear'!

He will have a bunch of players who have little to no value that he has to move on, while trying to retain the better ones, including the club's 'jewel in the crown' trio of Jarrod Bowen, Mo Kudus and Lucas Paqueta, not forgetting 'El Machin' Alvarez as well!

Unless your club happens to be one of the Premier League's 'top six' elite, you have to be prepared for all sorts of injustices during the course of the season in the hope that "things will even themselves out' by the time the last game is played.

Well, as it stands teams will have to play for a month of Sundays before fans witness anything like a level playing field when it comes to match officials, particularly VAR. Loathed and despised by ALL, VAR has taken fan frustration to a new level!

West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Cresswell, Soucek (c), Phillips, Kudus, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen. Subs: Fabiański (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Zouma, Álvarez, Earthy, Ings, Antonio, Mubama.
Burnley: Trafford, Assignon, O'Shea, Esteve, Taylor, Vitinho, Berge, Cullen (c), Odobert, Fofana, Bruun Larsen. Subs: Murić (GK), Cork, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Benson, Amdouni, Trésor, Delcroix