OK, so I know friendly results count for nothing and that Grant’s relegation campaign was preceded by an outstanding series of results in the warm up games, but it can’t be helpful to go into a new season on the back of a …
Posted on 11 August 2012.
OK, so I know friendly results count for nothing and that Grant’s relegation campaign was preceded by an outstanding series of results in the warm up games, but it can’t be helpful to go into a new season on the back of a …
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Posted on 10 August 2012.
So we have signed three keepers and two holding midfield players, a centre back, a left back and a striker and still the squad looks too shallow to survive in the Prem. A few short weeks back, Gold was talking about four or five signings so …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Diarra is a Hammer. Who is next?
Posted on 10 August 2012.
Is it just a personal vendetta against Master Bates or do LUST perhaps have other motives? This self annointed “Supporter’s Trust” seems to be putting its own self publicity above the best interests of the club, based on the decision to break the “news” of the…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on What Is LUST’s Game At Leeds?
Posted on 09 August 2012.
What a bloody disgrace! What the hell is Sullivan playing at, shelling out £4.3m to agents last season whilst we were in the Championship. The bulk went to Nolan’s agent. What a waste! All it needed was a phone call …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on £4.3m? Nice Work If You Can Get It!
Posted on 09 August 2012.
Ok he is 35, but he has 98 caps for Italy and is a free agent. He may be slowing down but he must be an improvement on McCartney. And we would love to see his wife in the stands!
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Posted on 09 August 2012.
After winning gold for Beer Bottle Throwing at the East London Olympics, Leeds can proudly boast another Olympic Gold Medalist! Congratulations to Nicola Adams, the first woman to win gold in boxing! Classy birds in Leeds obviously! Fans of clubs down South will…
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Posted on 09 August 2012.
He sounds like a cross between an Indian side dish and the after effects of a dodgy vindaloo, but the capture of Alou Diarra may be as important to our survival as the signing of Nolan was to our promotion push last season…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Does Alou Diarra’s Arrival Signal End For Noble?
Posted on 09 August 2012.
Who would have believed it? The much vaunted take over isn’t happening after all! Incredible. Amazing. I am incredulous. In shock. Befuddled. Staggered. Rocked. Stunned. How can this be? All along an ignorant West Ham fan, who knows nothing about Leeds, has …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Take Over Latest – There’s Still Hope for Leeds!
Posted on 08 August 2012.
Despite all the arrivals this summer, Warnock is still moaning that his squad looks paper thin and has expressed the hope that injuries can be avoided. Which is rather odd as Leeds fans keep telling me that all the yard dogs signed this summer…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Leeds Manager Warnock Fears Injury Impotency As LUST Point Finger At Master Bates
Posted on 08 August 2012.
Talk about fiddling whilst Rome burns! With three goals conceded in almost every pre season friendly played, and the team looking shapeless, toothless and spineless, there appears no urgency whatsoever at West Ham. Two years ago, when we started the season with a game against Aston Villa, we got …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on The Ghost of Relegations Past Haunt Corridors of Boleyn
Posted on 07 August 2012.
Leeds, Birmingham, Bolton, Leicester, Ipswich, Wolves, Blackpool, Middlesborough, Cardiff, Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace and Blackburn should take note, little old Watford are looking impressive under GianFredo’s stewardship. The likeable Italian is preaching the beauttiful game and after a narrow defeat at home to Tottenham, …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Zola’s Watford Issue Warning To Championship Rivals!
Posted on 07 August 2012.
So that’s nearly it then. Warnock wants a striker and somebody to play wide right, but his squad is all but assembled – before the take over dosh flows through the Bahrain oil pipe line. And how much have Leeds spent exactly? Taking into account…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Warnock Signals That Take Over Millions Will Not Be Spent By Leeds
Posted on 07 August 2012.
Animals to a man it seems, even when they are not dragging their knuckles through the turnstiles of football stadiums. How sad that one disgusting yob has embarrassed the entire nation with his beer bottle throwing antics prior to the 100m Final, but how fitting that he should be …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on The City of Leeds makes its mark on the East London Olympics!
Posted on 07 August 2012.
Tell me, is there a West Ham fan in the world who is keen to see us sign Jermaine Less Than Jenius? Even in his prime he looked like Ugly Betty at a beauty pageant when in an England shirt, and he hasn’t been in his …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on A Jenas out of the Tottenham Bottle
Posted on 07 August 2012.
It has to be the best Morrison deal ever. One million quid’s worth available for absolutely nowt. Dear God, even Bust Birmingham can afford to take advantage of that deal! There was never going to be a place for Morrison in Allardyce’s team. Far …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Great Morrison Give Away – Buy None Get One Free
Posted on 06 August 2012.
So the Whites have “re-signed” the very aptly named Michael Sh*t Brown. In his prime the guy was a crude hatchet man; at 35, he is a crude has been hatchet man! All those billions in the take over pipe line …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Skid Marks In Leeds!
Posted on 06 August 2012.
You what? Andy Carroll isn’t joining West Ham? Well you could knock me over with a feather! Captain Kev’s Top Six dreams are in tatters! Have Sullivan and Gold suddenly hit their target for season ticket sales perhaps? Or maybe it is…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Andy Carroll Shocker!
Posted on 06 August 2012.
Don’t get me wrong, despite her comment about Liam Treadwell’s teeth, I am a huge fan of Clare Balding. She is brilliant in front of the camera and clearly knows her sport. Indeed Gabby Logan and Clare form the perfect Cagney and Lacey of BBC Sport…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Clare Balding Doesn’t Understand Any Old Irons
Posted on 05 August 2012.
Typical ‘Arry. With AVB trying to construct a squad, Redknapp has revealed that Modric was promised a move to Madrid a year ago! With the new season accelerating towards us like an Olympic bus targeting a London cyclist, Spurs still …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Redknapp Sticks First Knife Into Tottenham
Posted on 05 August 2012.
I am old enough to remember the Cold War. In fact, I travelled to Berlin to see in the new year for 1990 because of the breach in the Wall. That heralded a new world, an end to the fears of a nuclear Armagedddon, and coincided with the…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on A New Olympian World Born In London 2012
Posted on 04 August 2012.
OK, the cricket fight back against South Africa was down to a South African, but that apart, and ignoring the bloody football, tonight is a night when we should feel proud to be British. I’m no fan of West Ham’s proposed move…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on A Night Of Pride – Football Apart!
Posted on 04 August 2012.
At this rate, Allardyce is going to be sacked before the season kicks off! We played pretty close to a first pick 11, given the players unavailable due to injury or Olympics duties, and we were thumped. I suppose it was progress on …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Another Depressing Friendly Performance
Posted on 04 August 2012.
The question keeps arising, why I devote time to writing about a club I do not support – and we are talking Leeds United, not West Ham! Ever since this site was conceived, I have regarded it as a West Ham site first and foremost but used it to…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Leeds United – The Painful Truth
Posted on 03 August 2012.
Bloody typical! The boy couldn’t buy a goal for three years, and even when he did score it was disallowed by a blind referee, but now he has moved to Colchester, Freddie has gone goal crazy! Normally, there would be an edge …
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Freddie Sears Can’t Stop Scoring!
Posted on 03 August 2012.
So Warnock has captured yet another piece of his jigsaw, with Lee Peltier due to sign from Leicester in the next few days. Peltier is an interesting signing. He had potential, once, and has all the raw material to be a quality player, but it…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Former Hull, Yeovil and Huddersfield Man Heading For Leeds
Posted on 03 August 2012.
It’s frightening to think that Freddie Piquionne is still on the books. This is a man who has suffered three consecutive relegations – with Portsmouth, West Ham and Doncaster – and who is still hanging around Upton Park like a bad smell after a vindaloo curry. It’s no surprise that…
Posted in The Game's Gone CrazyComments Off on Dangerous Rubbish Fly Tipped At Boleyn