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Funny coincidence, brought a book called "A Street Cat Named Bob" today and saw my neighbour Bob sitting in his front garden cuddling his cat when I got home.
Funny coincidence, brought a book called "A Street Cat Named Bob" today and saw my neighbour Bob sitting in his front garden cuddling his cat when I got home.
As long as that's all he's doing...
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
West Ham boss David Moyes stood by his decision to pick Kurt Zouma for the win over Watford despite the public backlash over his cat-kicking shame.
The France international was named in the starting line-up despite a police enquiry into a video showing him dropping, kicking and slapping his pet cat, and despite the club insisting that it ‘unreservedly condemns the actions of our player’.
And Zouma got a first taste of the outcry as his every touch was relentlessly booed by the Watford supporters. The away fans chanted, among other things, ‘RSPCA, RSPCA’, and when the defender hit the deck after a challenge with Joshua King, they sang ‘that’s how your cat felt’.
Former West Ham players Joe Cole and James Collins, at the match working as pundits, felt the club had made a mistake in refusing to drop the 27-year-old.
Cole told BT Sport ‘I think it’s a miscalculation by the club. He could have sat this one out,’ while Collins said on BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘I think there is a lot of anger and rightly so. I personally don’t think it is the right call.’
But Moyes said: ‘I’m really disappointed, and the club have taken all the action they can do at the moment behind the scenes. My job is to pick the best team and Kurt was part of that.
‘I’m a big animal lover and it’s something that will have affected a lot of people. I was completely disappointed with what I saw and what I was told, but my job was to try and find a way to get a win for West Ham. Some people will be disappointed and I understand that.
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
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