Who Would You Have Blamed

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spade10 4
  2. heart7 3
  3. diamondK J 9 6 4 2
  4. clubA J 6
  1. spade8 7 6 3
  2. heart9 6 2
  3. diamond10 8 5
  4. clubQ 7 2
club diamond heart spade NT
N 3 4 2 1 3
S 3 4 2 1 3
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA K Q 5
  2. heartK J 8 5
  3. diamond7 3
  4. clubK 5 3

Contract: 1NTxx
Declarer: South
Lead: spade7
  1. spadeJ 9 2
  2. heartA Q 10 4
  3. diamondA Q
  4. club10 9 8 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1NT*
Pass Pass Dble Rdble~
Pass Pass Pass

* 12-14
~ obligatory

At the table East switched to a small heart and declarer finessed the queen. After cashing diamondAQ declarer led club10, mistakenly covered by West. South rattled off dummy's trumps and poor East was squeezed in three suits. Eventually South came to ten tricks.

You might think that neither defender did anything particularly stupid - but it still resulted in minus 1910. Who would you have blamed - East or West?
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