The amount of poor decisions that have gone against West Ham this season is nothing short of bewildering. Just over the past few months there has been controversial officiating in their matches against Sheffield United, Burnley, Aston Villa and now Newcastle.
Unsurprisingly, it is something that David Moyes has been incredibly frustrated with and while he accepts that part of the blame is on the Hammers, he seems to believe that the referee was the main reason that his side didn’t walk away with a positive result.
“We are trying to challenge for Europe, we wanted to beat one of the teams close to us, and for long periods we looked like we were [going to beat Newcastle],” he told the official site.
“We scored some good goals, but when we got 3-1 up we just weren’t showing the elements of defensive duty which you have to do. It looked too easy today, but I have to say that so many decisions went against us today.”
“The penalty kick makes it 3-2 and we had been doing OK. We gave up a couple of chances before that which I didn’t like and they had started to get some control shooting down the hill, but we had another day when very few things went for us.”
However, the penalty wasn’t the only decision that he wished to highlight as he believes Dan Burns’ barge on Mohammed Kudus should have resulted in a red card.
“I’ve not had the chance to look back at it yet, but feeling was he (Dan Burn) pushed Mo in the back when he was going through on goal. That would have been a red card and could have changed the game.”
“We have to get ourselves back on it and show more resilience and toughness, which we didn’t do today,” he concluded.
