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Sam Alladyce 'didn't hear' chanting from West Ham fans at White Hart Lane

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Sam Allardyce insists he did not hear the chanting by West Ham fans which marred their derby with Spurs.

Just a matter of days after Ashley Mills was stabbed in an anti-Semitic attack before Tottenham's game in Rome, West Ham supporters were heard to sing "Viva Lazio", "Can we stab you every week?" and hissed on several occasions, apparently mocking the mass execution of Jews during the Second World War. Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said he did not want the issue to detract attention from what was his side's best home performance of the season. "I prefer not to mar the performance with a situation like this," the Spurs manager said. "You know the animosity there is between Tottenham and West Ham and as long as it doesn't reach stupidity it is a great, great rivalry of two London clubs. "It would be extremely unfair for me to mar the performance of the players but understanding that a couple of situations are avoidable but we can't decipher the true meaning of what they were saying."

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