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Slaven Bilic said on the BBC News website that the penalty was hard to explain because the Albion defender was nowhere near their guy.
Can anyone comment?

Yeah, their full-back Masuaku had an absolute mare.  He committed the first handball (which conceded the initial free-kick) by falling over and clambering all over the ball.  Then when the free-kick came in, even though the ball had drifted way past the far post and Chadli was miles away, he seemed to misjudge its flight and failed to get his head underneath it, so he lifted his arm up to control it instead when he could have just let it drop.

Hilariously, he cost them six million quid.  I only hope their stadium is similar value for money, and will be falling apart like their defence in the very near future.

Ah! Bilic was talking about the penalty awarded to Albion, not the one awarded to West Ham. Yes, the West Ham defender had a real rush of blood to the head for that one.