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Slaven Bilic hailed Mark Noble as his sides most important player after his two goals helped West Ham to a 2-0 victory at West Brom. The Hammers captain scored either side of half-time after Cheikhou Kouyate opened the scoring as the they moved above Manchester United into fifth spot in the Premier League.He [Noble] is our most important player, Bilic told Sky Sports. Hes the captain. He loves it and hes a West Ham boy. Mark Noble (centre) scored twice as West Ham won 3-0 at West Brom Nowadays, with players moving a lot, you get the captains that become the leaders after just one season at the club because they are the best players, but Mark is the real captain of our team.Its great for me because he is the coach on the pitch and not only is he a great captain, hes a great player as well.With three games left to play Europa League qualification is now in West Hams hands and there is an outside chance of reaching the Champions League, if Arsenal and Manchester City slip up. Slaven Bilic is confident West Ham can qualify for Europe And Bilic is confident his side will be playing European football at the Olympic Stadium next season.There are three games to go and we are in a good position Bilic said. We are still in a position where we can catch maybe one team.Its still very open with Manchester United but with Arsenal and Manchester City its not very likely.Our target to qualify for Europe is now realistic and all we can do is go game-by-game, he added. We need to try to get something out of every game because its all in our hands. Phil Thompson gives his reaction to West Hams 3-0 away victory against West Brom We have three games left, two at home. One of them is Manchester United in the last game ever to be played at our stadium. Its magnificent. Its going to be a great occasion and we have a full squad back.We are confident and we cant wait for the next game. 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The UCI and Verbruggen have been accused of protecting Armstrong and helping cover up his doping. The American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from Olympic sports for life after admitting to doping. The investigative panel will be based in Lausanne, Switzerland, and will be called the Cycling Independent Reform Commission. Cookson said he wants the investigation completed this year. The commission will be chaired by Dick Marty, a Swiss politician and former Swiss state prosecutor. The other members are German anti-doping expert Ulrich Haas and Peter Nicholson, a former Australian military officer and war crimes investigator. "Their work will also be focused on understanding what went so wrong in our sport and they will make recommendations for change so that as far as possible those mistakes are not repeated," Cookson said in a statement. 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He tweeted that "I can also confirm that neither myself nor anyone on my team has been contacted by the UCI or the independent commission." Cookson said the UCI will cover the full budget of the commission, which will operate "completely independently of the UCI" and receive no instructions from the body. Haas, a German professor of law at the University of Zurich, is an experienced judge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport who has been involved in prominent cycling cases. Haas was the chosen arbitrator of Alberto Contadors legal team on the three-man panel which eventually stripped the Spanish rider of his 2010 Tour de France victory and banned him for two years. The panel decided that Contadors positive test for clenbuterol was caused by a contaminated supplement. ' ' '