Roy Hodgson has admitted the clubs poor home form has become a 'vicious circle' that is proving very difficult to get out of having seen his side throw away a 1-0 lead to lose 2-1 to Swansea City at The Hawthorns today.

Marc-Antoine Fortuné opened the scoring in the second half but Gylfi Sigurdsson and Danny Graham turned things around within five minutes and the Swans held on for the victory. 

"It's an all too familiar story," said Hodgson.

"We keep giving ourselves a chance and getting into good situations and then when we come to play at home in front of our own crowd we disappoint them by not being able to get a result.

"It's a vicious circle that can only be broken by us getting a result - and we don't seem capable of doing it.

"When we took the lead I thought this is maybe going to be a situation where we would get a result.

"But it only lasted a minute and then you suddenly find yourself 2-1 down and it's a familiar pattern.

"In the last 20 minutes we worked very hard, took a few chances, and got the ball into the opponent's penalty area often.

"The ball bounced around and there were chances but we didn't take them.

"In particular Peter's miss from such close range.

"Those misses are very, very crucial.

"If he'd have scored it we might have been saying we're perfectly happy with our day's work.

"But he didn't, and once again we all go home extremely unhappy, dissatisfied and downhearted.

"The games against Stoke and Fulham lift you up and give you great hope then games like today do the exact opposite - they knock you down.

"It's a fact of football life."

Hodgson also took the time to express his disappointment at a penalty appeal waved away for what looked to be a clear hand ball in the first half as Gareth McAuley looked set to score before having the ball taken away from him with the use of the hand of a Swansea defender.

"I didn't think we played at all well in the first half," Hodgson added.

"But when you see the TV replays it is quite amazing we didn't get a penalty that probably would have taken us into half-time leading 1-0.

"Perhaps it would have been against the run of play.

"But I would defy anyone to say that's not handball.

"It's very disappointing that such clear handballs are not seen because I'm sure the Swansea players had accepted their fate as it being a penalty."