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Apparently Loftus Road, Craven Cottage and the Britannia stadium are all ranked better stadiums then ours to watch football! 20. Carrow Road 19. The Hawthorns 18. DW Stadium 17. > The Boleyn

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Reports in Italy suggest Inter Milan are close to signing former Aston Villa and Lyon striker John Carew until the end of the Serie A season. The Norwegian is a free agent having left Barclays Premier League club West Ham in the summer and Inter are looking for back-up to Antonio Cassano with Argentinian forward Diego Milito ruled out for the rest of the season with knee ligament damage. Having located the player…

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Well if we are honest, Tottenham could have scored six in that second half. Jussi was truly inspired and kept Spurs out time and time again as Tottenham created chance after chance from corners and we chased shadows as Bale went into overdrive. Allardyce did a great job of motivating Arsenal when he said they couldn’t cope without Van Persie and he repeated the trick for this one when claiming Spurs were over reliant on Bale. Wouldn’t we just love to have a player like him to be overly reliant on? Until we went ahead we were in the game, but …

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Give Osborne control of the economy and the nation loses its triple A rating; let Allardyce run your club and austerity bites deeper and deeper when in comes to attacking intentions. Tonight’s team makes depressing reading. No Noble – is he injured? O’Neil plays ahead of Collison. Tomkins doesn’t even make the bench. Demel starts so Bale will be licking his lips! Where’s Vaz Te? Injured or jettisoned? The OS tells us nothing! Does this team inspire? Jussi   Demel, Collins, Reid, O’Brien   O’Neil   Diame, Nolan   Cole                                       Jarvis   Carroll   I would love to be proved wrong but it looks the wrong team to me. Is Paulista still at the club?

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I have to say I’m torn on this. The way they are playing at the moment everything tells me they will turn us over at home but with the home crowd getting behind us it might give us the third man we will need in this match. Milan beat Barca and it goes to show …

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If you never concede a goal, you’re going to win more games than you lose – Bobby Moore

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Ghana international, & former West Ham legend John Paintsil has been granted police bail in his homeland after being accused of assaulting his wife. Painsil was taken to the Legon station in the capital Accra on Friday and was bailed shortly after midnight. Paintsil is accused of stabbing his wife in the upper eyelid. She was taken to hospital, but had now been released. “She has given us an initial statement. It is an issue…

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Development Squad star signs a two year professional deal. Good luck Sebastian !

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Pleased for the boy Sold by us to Burnley Hines career bombed when he couldn’t make the first team squad for them, some thought his career and dealt an even heavier blow when he moved from Burnley to Bradford but on Sunday Hines will take his place in the squad to face Swansea city at Wembley in the Capital one cup. This is what he has to say…

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David Gold has said – “I understand he is an absolute hero here, but as we have said previously, we will be holding talks with our manager Sam Allardyce at the end of the season and that’s exactly where things stand” & “I want to make this absolutely clear there is no managerial vacancy for Paolo or anyone else at the club. There is no

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With news that Ricardo Gardner may be about to join the Bolton émigrés at Upton Park, 88 year old tea lady Doris Garnett was found in floods of tears yesterday morning after discovering that Allardyce is thinking of bringing in Nora Bates from Bolton as her replacement. Husband Reg, 93, a life long West Ham fan, told reporters: “Doris was inconsolable went she got home yesterday afternoon. She arrived at work to find a strange …

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Well he lasted 12 months longer than I predicted, but Di Canio has walked away from the Swindon job, exactly as I said he would do. There’s no denying that, based on results, he has done a fabulous job, but in terms of high maintenance, he is Joan Collins, Liza Minnelli and Jordan rolled into one. Talk about flouncing in and flouncing out again, in a little over 18 months, the Italian …

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Confirmation of us moving to the Olympic stadium was set to be confirmed today but as per usual it has been delayed yet again. From the Guardian:- Negotiations over West Ham United’s protracted move into the Olympic Stadium are set to extend beyond Tuesday as a saga that has lasted more than two years limps towards a conclusion. The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) was expected to rubber-stamp the move on Tuesday after…

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Like most of us I had never heard of him when he signed and turned to youtube to see what all the fuss was about. Youtube being youtube always shows the brilliance of a player but they are far from it when they sign (Faubert anyone) That said I do believe Maiga actually has ability and when played has shown little interest at times but other times shown…

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Go on have the ginger nutter Diame! Well this one was the real deal! Not only our best signing but probably the best signing of the Premier league when you consider he cost us nothing! Big, powerful and scares the shit out of defenders Diame is almost the complete midfielder …

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Team off today for 5 days of ‘warm weather training’ in Dubai…….very nice! Wellington Paulista has however refused to go with them, choosing instead to stay in London and play with the Development squad this Friday. He maintains it will help get his fitness up quicker. Most people  would of just gone for a free holiday! He seems committed and exciting looking player, just hope Allardyce gives him a chance soon with 3 goals in 3 games so far for…

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Allardyce is no doubt smiling at reports that Poyet might succeed him at Upton Park. Apart from the fact that the Uruguayan has achieved nothing as a manager to date, Doctor Evil might point to an aggregate score of 7-0 in head to head games between them last season. West Ham fans might not like Allardyce’s style of football, but his teams…

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Remember this? I do, not his finest hour alongside Ramos at the yids Rumours abound today that we are earmarking Poyet to take over Allardyce in the summer. These are only rumours remember but I can already see people saying if you are interested in Poyet then why not Di Canio? Well yeah why not? Both have about the same sort of experience in management except that Di Canio is a true hammer with a big…

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We are currently on 30pts and this is our run in:- yids (H) – 1 point Stoke (A) – 0 Man U (H) – 0 Chelsea (A) – 0 WBA (H) – 3 Liverpool (A) – 0 Southampton (A) – 1 Wigan (H) – 3 Man C (A) – 0 Newcastle (H) – 1 Everton (A) – 1 Reading (H) – 3 Finish the season on 43

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Dear God, has this man got any balls? Apparently, we set up in the first half to see what Aston Villa had to offer, and once we established not much, only then did we go out to try to win the game! What a confession from Allardyce. You are playing against a team that ships goals like the Titanic shipped water after rubbing shoulders with that iceberg, and…

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Since we have gone through our bad patch it would appear that clubs are starting to earmark us as the club they can take three points off of. Old Lambert is saying he sees us as a 3 pointer before they go up against Arsenal and Man City and you can…

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Reckon this is going to be one hell of a boring match on Sunday. Villa are struggling to win and we are struggling to win away it has all the hallmarks of a 0-0 in my opinion. If we lose to this lot then it’s another step back after the important win against Swansea, Carroll will cause them all sorts of problems but don’t …

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Apparently the rumour goes that if we don’t sign Carroll we are going to make a move for Vitesse Arnhem striker Wilfried Bony. Both players though couldn’t be further apart! I had the fortune to see Ajax v Vitesse earlier in the season and at the time he was top scorer in the Eredivise. I could see why, short in height but stocky with legs like tree trunks! Those legs give him immense power so…

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According various rumours appearing all over the place this afternoon, it seems that Fat Sam, assuming we survive in the Premiership (not a foregone conclusion – but let’s assume so – for arguments sake), he(?) will be given £20 million to spend on strengthening the squad.   So, that pretty much rules …

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