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There is huge responsibility that comes with being the captain of a big club like West Ham but time and again it seems lost on Kurt Zouma. West Ham took another hammering as they lost 5-2 at Crystal Palace on Sunday. It meant the Hammers extended their run without a clean sheet to 14 Premier League games – the longest since 2020. In truth the humbling could and probably should have been far worse. Had Palace scored eight or nine West Ham couldn’t have had any complaints. Perhaps the worst of the lot was watching Eberechi Eze nonchalantly pop the ball through Kurt Zouma’s legs to Jean-Philippe …