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Fat Sam: West Ham Fans Are Stupid & Negative: Sam Allardyce has admitted that fans' negativity at home has rubbed off on West Ham players this season. The Hammers have picked up just 34 points at Upton Park this season compared with 38 points away from home and supporters have voiced their unhappiness at the style of play, along with results, at the Boleyn Ground. But former Bolton and Blackburn manager Allardyce has told Keys and Gray that only by supporting the team fully can the club clinch promotion from the Championship. "The small minority are negative but you find that in any football club," the 57-year-old said. "They are the ones that make themselves heard. "When you consider the season we've had, we're 11 undefeated but we've done it the wrong way round, we've got a great away record but not sorted out the home form, that's where the problems come. "It's the effect it has on the players that concerns me, they can be edgy anyway at this time of the year and it's not! helped when there's negativity around the ground. "If there's a little bit of negativity that goes wrong, players get tense and then the players make more basic errors. The players need to be more supported to get them over the line. "We've got to try and drown out the negativity, when you see the team struggling cheer it on to get over that difficult period." Allardyce took over the reins at Upton Park from Avram Grant last summer after the club had finished bottom of the Premier League. And the ...

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