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title: "West Ham United: Hammers fans slam Craig Dawson vs Newcastle United"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/west-ham-united-hammers-fans-slam-craig-dawson-vs-newcastle-united/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Emilio Galantini"
section: "Newcastle United"
published: "2021-04-17T13:29:12Z"
modified: "2021-04-17T13:29:12Z"
---

# West Ham United: Hammers fans slam Craig Dawson vs Newcastle United

**During West Ham United’s encounter with Newcastle United this afternoon, plenty of Hammers supporters were less than impressed with the performance of defender Craig Dawson – with the Englishman sent off following a string of bad challenges.**

Dawson, who is set to join the Irons on a [permanent basis from Watford this summer,](https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/april/06-april/craig-dawson-join-west-ham-united-permanent-basis) endured a torrid afternoon at St. James’ Park as the 30-year-old struggled to keep some composure.

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According to [SofaScore](https://www.sofascore.com/newcastle-united-west-ham-united/MO), Dawson attempted just one ground duel, made an error leading to a goal and accumulated a meagre 5.2 match rating over the 36 minutes he played before being given his marching orders.

For his first booking, the centre-back took out Joelinton and received an early caution – with another poor challenge then leading to an opening goal for Newcastle and his second card of the afternoon ([football.london](https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/fixtures-results/west-ham-vs-newcastle-live-20398510)).

As a result, it’s safe to say many Irons supporters were not impressed with his performance at St. James’ Park.

Find all of their verdicts down below.

### West Ham fans slam Dawson

***“The worst we’ve played since the opening day! Unfortunately all frailties at once! Donkey Dawson, flapianski, Lack of pace, lack of creativity, lack of a striker…”***

Credit: [@gerard\_finch](https://twitter.com/gerard_finch/status/1383395692245225474)

***“Diop is heavily mistake prone but Dawson is useless under pressure it’s embarrassing”***

Credit:[@\_ghzst](https://twitter.com/_ghzst/status/1383396205137326086)

***“Diop and Dawson just aren’t good enough, poor”***

Credit: [@lewis\_wall](https://twitter.com/lewis_wall/status/1383398499304148995)

***“Dawson has been poor for a while but been getting away with it because we have been winning lately”***

Credit: [@TomCass5](https://twitter.com/TomCass5/status/1383397140022497281)

***“Let’s be honest, Dawson has been really poor for weeks he won’t be a miss in the next game.”***

Credit:[@WesthamDan16](https://twitter.com/WesthamDan16/status/1383396567588040705)

***“Dawson has been a liability for about 3 games now”***

Credit: [@johnlewiscoyi](https://twitter.com/johnlewiscoyi/status/1383398075004194817)

***“Dawson’s been a liability recently.”***

Credit: [@SPKing1986](https://twitter.com/SPKing1986/status/1383395044330070016)

***“Dawson been terrible for weeks”***

Credit: [@75\_chicoIron](https://twitter.com/75_chicoiron/status/1383396601889058817?s=21)

***In other news: West Ham fans were excited by an ExWHUemployee claim, find out more [here.](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/west-ham-transfer-rumours/west-ham-united-hammers-fans-beg-for-joao-mario-re-signing/)***