Daily Mirror

Antonio was lazy & inept

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I WAS beyond angry about what Michail Antonio did at the end of West Ham’s 2-2 draw at Crystal Palace.

With 20 seconds left of the match, you walk the ball into the corner, stick your backside into someone’s lap, and say: “Try to get the ball off me, no you can’t”, then the ref blows his whistle. Game over.

But what he did – crossing the ball before Palace went up the other end and equalised – was probably one of the most naive, inept, lazy, ill-discipline­d, stupid, idiotic, passages of play I have seen in many a season.

He and he alone lost his team-mates, team and club two points, which could be the difference between them staying g up or going down this season.

And he should be getting rollicking­s, banter, embarrassm­ent, memes all week just to remind him that he shouldn’t do it again.

That situation boils down to football intelligen­ce and I knew what to do aged nine, so why is Antonio (above) doing it well into his 20s?

He is either a football illiterate and doesn’t understand the game well enough, or doesn’t care enough about his team trying to win three points away from home.

I hope Mark Noble or Joe Hart have gone up to him in the dressing room and said: “Listen, stand up, don’t do that again. Whoever you play for, wherever you go, you run that ball into the corner, and win us the game.”

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