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Posted on 18 February 2012. Tags: coyi, west ham, west ham news, West Ham United, whu
Ignore his homophobic Twatter rant which has landed him an invitation into the headmaster’s office, and Morrison is making all the right noises at the moment. His absence from the team has been explained by him not being fully fit, but a friendly against a QPR team was organised to help to tune him up. Talking through the OS – …
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Posted on 17 February 2012. Tags: hammers news, West Ham United
Is this the beginning of the end or the start of a resurgence for Freddie Sears? Will the man who collects goals like Susan Boyle collects toy boys finally find his shooting boots, or will this prove the final nail in his footballing coffin? There’s not a West Ham fan in the…
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Posted on 17 February 2012. Tags: coyi, sports news, West Ham United, westham fc
Brilliant! Stuart Attwell has been demoted from the select group of referees allowed to blow the whistle in the Prem because he keeps making so many mistakes. So what’s happening to him? Is he being sacked? No. He’s being sent to referee in the Championship because, apparently, you are allowed to be crap there!…
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Posted on 16 February 2012. Tags: coyi, hammers news, West Ham United, west ham united fc
After Fernandes accused the team of being spineless – because he failed to cough up the cash to build a spine some might argue – Mark Hughes has now come up with the highly original idea of sending the team away to a boot camp. Apparently, QPR lost at Blackburn because they are not fit…
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Posted on 16 February 2012. Tags: coyi, football news, hammers news, online soccer news, westham fc, whu
Oh dear God. Hang on, am I allowed to start like that? What implications does the word “dear” have? Is there a suggestion here that I have some sort of personal, or indeed, intimate relationship with God? Might I be offending some religious denomination in some way? Could there be …
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: coyi, online soccer news, west ham, whu
Question: can anybody remember West Ham collecting four red cards in a season? It may have happened in 2003-04 because Defoe was on a mission to get a transfer and was collecting red cards like other teenagers were collecting Pokemon cards (for those that don’t remember, he picked up three), but even when Hutchison, Dicks and Mad Dog were …
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: sports news, West Ham United, whu
Allardyce vented in typical fashion last night, blaming the referee for costing us two crucial points, or five if you take the view that yesterday’s game was a six pointer. And now Doctor Evil must surely expect a call from the FA after he suggested that Probert and his assistants not only got it wrong, but did so intentionally. Speaking after …
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Posted on 14 February 2012. Tags: sports news, west ham united fc, whu
Two games, three idiots. It was Nolan against Millwall, and Taylor and Probert tonight. Two excellent penalty shouts were ignored by Probert before he remembered where the spot was, but then Taylor put in his bid for Twat of the Season, getting himself sent off for barging into the guy who had given us the penalty! So, …
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Posted on 14 February 2012. Tags: coyi, west ham united fc, westham fc, westham news, whu
Talk about making life difficult for yourself! After two good penalty claims were ignored, Lee Probert decided he couldn’t give Southampton three lives and at last remembered how to point to the penalty spot after Noble was tripped. So far so good. But then Taylor decided ‘anything Nolan can do, I can do better’, and came charging …
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Posted on 14 February 2012. Tags: football news, sports news, West Ham United
Well there’s a shock. It is 4-3-3, but it is truly 4-3-3 rather than 4-5-1! Taylor switches to left back, something I have been calling for for some time, and Vaz Te comes in instead of Nolan. Tomkins continues to anchor midfield, but we could even set up 3-5-2 with the personnel selected, with Taylor and O’Brien bombing up…
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Posted on 14 February 2012. Tags: coyi, westham
What a mess! The biggest, or second biggest, club in Scotland are on the brink of Administration because it cannot meet its financial obligations. Those sons of bitches over at HMRC want Rangers to pay their tax bill – how unreasonable! – and that is the only straw that will break the club’s back. There is a metaphor here for…
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Posted on 13 February 2012. Tags: coyi, sports news, west ham news, West Ham United, westham news
So, no further action is planned following Suarez’s snub of Evra and Dalglish’s dreadful defence of the Uruguayan. It seems that apologies suffice. Makes you wonder if we might still have Capello as an England manager had this solution been suggested in the John Terry case. As I have maintained all along, Dalglish and …
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Posted on 13 February 2012. Tags: coyi, football news
So Nicky Maynard is hoping to get his chance against Southampton. He might do. If we are a goal behind with 20 minutes to play, or Cole runs out of steam and needs to be replaced – but then Vaz Te is his more probable like for like replacement. Big Sam wants a big man to lead the…
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Posted on 13 February 2012. Tags: west ham, West Ham United, west ham united fc, whu
Wouldn’t that be typical? You dump a bird, the next thing you know, she slims down, has breast implants, takes a course on the Kama Sutra, announces she is bisexual and her girl friend is a porn model, and she starts dating your best mate! Meanwhile you’ve hitched yourself to a Welsh rarebit …
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Posted on 13 February 2012. Tags: coyi, westham, westham fc, whu
I suppose it was inevitable. The guy is a media whore so it was only a matter of time before he took to Twitter to undermine his new manager and breed disaffection in the dressing room. But Fernandes has done it with knobs on! Venting after the Nightmare on Ewood Park Street, the poisoned dwarf raged, ““The…
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Posted on 12 February 2012. Tags: coyi, west ham news, whu
Ok there was Grant! And Upson couldn’t be arsed. And neither could Bridge. And we had Spector. And Tomkins was up and down. And we had to pick Gabbidon. And Cole couldn’t hit a barn door from five paces for much of the season. And Hitz was out until January. And Green’s confidence …
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Posted on 12 February 2012. Tags: coyi, online soccer news, sports news, west ham news, West Ham United, westham
For all his excellent reviews, question marks still hang over Scott Parker. Tottenham fans are raving about the man they never really wanted, just like they are raving over a manager they were loath to see appointed, but yesterday’s booking showed why the former “Mr West Ham” may do to England’s European Championship chances what Green did …
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Posted on 12 February 2012. Tags: westham news, whu
After all the early Fernandes inspired bravado, it seems that reality has bitten QPR fans on the arse – and like cocky cockers face to face with a teeth baring rottweiler, the gRs have lost their growl. To be fair, it’s hardly surprising. There was a tremor of excitement in the Bush…
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Posted on 11 February 2012. Tags: westham, whu
It’s unfortunate that Southampton have pulled up on to our shoulder, but Cardiff’s defeat at Leicester and Blackpool’s home draw with struggling Portsmouth more than made up for that. Two teams go up, and if Southampton are one of them, that’s fine by me. I went to university in Southampton and have a soft spot for them. Mind you, it was galling…
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Posted on 11 February 2012. Tags: football news, west ham, West Ham United, whu
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, two crucial six pointer games played and no points returned. Half time against Villa seems a long, long time ago now. Had the Hoops held on to a victory there, they would have expected victories over relegation rivals Wolves and Blackburn. But instead of nine crucial points, …
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Posted on 11 February 2012. Tags: coyi, West Ham United, westham, whu
What a disgrace. The refusal of Suarez to shake Evra’s hand says it all. Whether the Uruguayan likes it or not, he was found guilty, not Evra, so if anybody was within his rights to decline a handshake, it was the Frenchman. By refusing to touch flesh with the “Little Negro”, Suarez simply …
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Posted on 11 February 2012. Tags: sports news, west ham, west ham news, West Ham United, west ham united fc, westham news, whu
Well this is it: showdown day. With QPR at Backburn and Bolton hosting Wigan, two relegation six pointers will unfold simultaneously, and if results go the wrong way – two 2-0 home victories would do it – the Hoops could find themselves second from bottom tonight. Should Fulham win at home to Stoke, they would then stand nine points clear of QPR, leaving…
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Posted on 11 February 2012. Tags: coyi, sports news, West Ham United, westham news, whu
Doctor Evil will not be happy. The last thing he needed was for a winnable game at Peterborough to be frozen off today, giving the opportunity to others to close up on our heels. The postponement also prolongs Nolan’s absence, in terms of days if not games. The worry is that this will…
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Posted on 10 February 2012. Tags: coyi, west ham news, West Ham United
What’s the betting that Taylor replaces Nolan, with Collison moved inside and Taylor playing wide on the left? After the battling result against Millwall, Doctor Evil will be thinking “more of the same” and will see no reason to change a winning formula. Those hoping for 4-4-2, with the introduction of either Maynard, Baldock or Vaz Te coming in for …
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Posted on 10 February 2012. Tags: coyi, west ham, West Ham United, westham
The ‘Arry bandwagon is certainly bashing out a rallying anthem but is the illiterate tax invader really the best man for the job? Yes he is a cheeky chappie and has had a few good seasons at Spurs, but apart from that, what has he done? True there was an …
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Posted on 10 February 2012. Tags: coyi, football news, westham, whu
Well that’s big of him. The job hasn’t been offered, of course, but Old Big ‘Ead has come out and announced that he isn’t interested in the job. Nothing like heading off a sleight eh? On that basis, I’m dropping a line through to Keira Knightley turning down an invitation to a threesome with Uma Thurman! Allardyce has a problem…
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