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Printing false or spurious information seems to be the bye word for those working at News International's Sun newspaper, what initially looked like lazy journalism is actually a rather unpleasant occurrence of 'media led' player destabilisation. The Sun's report claims 17 year old Reece Oxford, Slaven Billic's favourite young player, wants £40,000 per week in wages and a 'signing on' fee of £1 Million! Wait a minute, a 'signing on' fee for a player who is already signed up? Confused, you should be, as is Oxford himself.

It is rather typically West Ham United that the club's European competition qualification rests out of their hands, those who woke up today thinking that Southampton couldn't possibly have pipped Hammers to the final Europa Cup berth yesterday will begin having to accept the fact that Manchester United and Crystal palace will dictate whether European football comes to the inaugural season at the 60,000 seat Olympic Stadium.

Stoke: Given, Pieters, Wollscheid, Shawcross, Cameron, Whelan, Imbula, Bojan, Arnautovic, Walters, Joselu
Subs: Haugaard, Bardsley, Muniesa, Adam, Diouf, Shaqiri, Crouch
West Ham: Randolph, Tomkins, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Noble, Kouyate, Antonio, Lanzini, Sakho, Carroll
Subs: Spiegel, Byram, Collins, Obiang, Moses, Emenike, Valencia