‘A bad day at the office’ for Grant and West Ham

NEWCASTLE: West Ham manager Avram Grant insisted his team would recover after a 5-0 drubbing at Newcastle that sent the London club back to the bottom of the table.

The Hammers’ run of five Premier League games unbeaten came to a juddering halt as the Magpies ran riot at St James’ Park, with stand-in striker Leon Best scoring a hat-trick alongside goals from Kevin Nolan and Peter Lovenkrands.

Grant later dismissed the result as “a bad day at the office”.

“I don’t like the game, I don’t like the performance, I don’t like how we played, but in football, that happens,” Grant said.

“Sunderland lost here 5-1 and afterwards, they have won many games, so it happens.

“Today was a bad day at the office. Everything we tried to do was not good – not the desire, not the effort, not passing the ball well, putting pressure on the other team.

“But those are things we did very well in the games before, so we need to continue.”