While older, more experienced and better-paid reporters were getting laid off left and right, I got hired because my employer could pay me pennies, and I would work my butt off to prove myself.

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Fidel Edwards, Daren Powell and Dwayne Bravo all leaked runs at a rate of almost five an over as the two left-handers moved their side past the West Indies total of 149 and laid the foundation for a massive first innings lead.

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Having taken an early lead, Stoke seemed happy to soak up the West Ham punches and they were lucky to get away with it when Herita Ilunga found a way through on the left wing and laid the ball back into a crowded box, somehow missing all his team-mates.

BBC: West Ham 2-1 Stoke

The roving runs of left-back Ashley Cole were an early feature of the Stamford Bridge side's play and he firstly laid the ball across for Frank Lampard to shoot wide before finding the side-netting with an angled shot after two well-worked moves.

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