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West Ham boss Slaven Bilic 'angry' after West Brom draw

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic saw red in their draw with West Brom.

In response to Gareth McAuley's late leveller, Bilic followed his assistant Nikola Jurcevic in being sent off after he angrily threw a television microphone to the ground and later criticised the performance of referee Michael Oliver.

Bilic and Jurcevic face bans, but asked if that was a concern, the manager said: "Whatever. We are more than enough punished during the game.

"It's a solid microphone, don't worry. It's frustrating after this game; we should be all positive, we should be talking about great performances, coming back and everything, but to have that bitter feeling is not good.

"There were four or five decisions and all of them went totally against us. It's building up your frustration. Then at the end you don't understand it. It's hard to get over that.

"This was, including last season, one of our best games. To end like this, conceding a late goal after everything that happened regarding the decisions, it's very frustrating and hard to accept. That's why I'm proud of my team but also very, very angry at the decisions.

"Our disallowed goal, they ruled it out because of offside. It wasn't offside. A couple of penalties, not big ones...but after those decisions you're counting them also."

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