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Sam Allardyce has hit back at West Ham fans who have criticised some of the team's recent performances in the npower Championship.
West Ham are currently second behind Southampton, who beat Allardyce's side at St Mary's two weeks ago, and play bottom club Bristol City tonight.
"I don't know why they are moaning about winning," Allardyce told the Newham Recorder. Because all this team did before was lose.
"It doesn't make any sense to me, but you're talking about the small handful.
"I've been a manager for 18 years now, and not for the life of me would I expect a football fan to accept playing well and losing, rather than playing well and winning, but if unable to play well, then just win."
Allardyce is looking to end a poor run of midweek results starting tonight against the Robins.
"We haven't had much luck on Tuesday nights," he said.
"We haven't won here at all, we lost 1-0 here against Ipswich and we lost due to a poorly-defended corner at Southampton, so we have to do better."