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There were only 22 minutes on the clock when James Maddison limped off, giving Gareth Southgate an injury scare before England head off for the World Cup, but by that stage the Leicester playmaker had already done his bit to loosen David Moyes’s grip on the West Ham job.Maddison’s seventh goal of the season arrived early, providing Leicester with the impetus to edge further into mid-table, and made it impossible not to wonder if West Ham’s players are still listening to their manager. That lingering sense of the project growing stale, of Moyes running out of ideas, is gathering momentum. There was another slow start from West Ham, who are a point above the bottom three, and they did not have the wit to recover. Continue reading...