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West Ham fans don't want Dimitri Payet any more and on this evidence they might get by without him

West Ham supporters have a new song for Dimitri Payet: same tune as the old one — but not quite as complimentary.

'We just don't want you any more,' is probably the key line, among the expletives and slurs about 'money-grabbing' and the way he is trying to engineer an exit this month.

The Payet situation is casting a cloud over West Ham — one only really wafted away after Andy Carroll's bicycle kick here — but this game might have provided some evidence that they can survive without him.

West Ham fans have turned on former darling Dimitri Payet after his refusal to playu00a0
West Ham fans have turned on former darling Dimitri Payet after his refusal to play
Even the guards charged with stopping supporters from defacing his mural weren't impressed
Even the guards charged with stopping supporters from defacing his mural weren't impressed

Michail Antonio, Manuel Lanzini, and Sofiane Feghouli, the three men cast with the main creative responsibility in their want-a-way team-mate's absence, all played key roles to send former manager Sam Allardyce and his Crystal Palace team away with no points.