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It is strange how one event can trigger another and so on at a football club, there are few places in the World of Sport stranger than the Premier League, so the shenanigans going on at West Ham during the last week or so will come as no surprise to some observers.

The now infamous Zoumagate affair shone a not too decent light on West Ham as a football club and an even worse light on Kurt Zouma who, quite rightly, has come in for a lot of flack, however the surging indignation eventually grew out of all proportion to a ludicrous level.

Borussia Dortmund play Napoli, while Barcelona match up against Rangers on Thursday evening to decide which of the clubs progress to the knock out stages of the Europa League Cup, at which point previous group winners including West Ham are put into the hat for the 1/4 finals draw.

Although disappointing, Sunday's game against Leicester Ciy DID prove that there is 'life after Zouma', whether it was because he had no time to dwell on the match beforehand or not, Issa Diop was called in to the starting line up after Kurt Zouma felt 'ill' during the warm up, and played an absolute blinder, his best game in a Hammers shirt for ages.