Nobody expected W.Ham to get any points last night,least enough W.Ham themselves.
They will home to Southampton this weekend when the pressure will really be on them to get a result.
I believe that W.Ham will win this game based on their performance last night.

Other matches involving teams at the bottom this weekend :
Watford v Liverpool
Bournemouth v Chelsea
A.Villa v Man C

It normally is.
Only 3 times since the inception of the PL have teams gone down having accrued 40 pts.
Only Bolton have been relegated on goal difference.

Correct, this has been mentioned a million times on TV, radio, podcasts etc.

Roy's tactic does work every now and again away from home. We sit back, frustrate them, get the home crowd anxious and sometimes we come away with a decent point or all three.

Problem is at home when he plays the same way, the negative approach is boring the pants off people. And if we go a goal down, there's no way back.

Maybe we need two coaches, one for home games and one for aways.

Roy now has a worse record than Pardew.

We are now losing games where we've not even given it a go.

That isn't true. Pardew averaged 1.2 points per game as Palace boss, same as Sam Allardyce. Roy averages closer to 1.3, a significant improvement.

I'd argue that Pardew had the worst squad and Roy has had the best.

Pulis did the best job.