This was coming. We have been getting results whilst playing poorly. So, no surprise that when we did play well in the first half and deservedly took the lead early in the second, that we get sucker punched and end up losing a game. Did Green have a save to make? He retrieved the ball from the…
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West Ham 1 Burnley 2 – The Day the Luck Ran Out!
Posted on 03 December 2011.
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4-5-1 with O’Brien, Cole and Collison reinstated!
Posted on 03 December 2011.
So Allardyce has ditched 4-4-2 and put all his eggs in the 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 formation. There remains a home formation and an away formation, with Diop figuring instead of Collison away from Upton Park and Collison coming in to add more attacking impetus for home games. Hopefully the set up with enable Nolan to operate in the hole. I …
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O’Neil is manager of Sunderland; but for how long?
Posted on 03 December 2011.
When Geordie Steve Bruce was appointed manager of Sunderland, I said it would end in tears. And I suppose, wait long enough and any prediction like that about a manager will eventually be proved right. But the truth is, Bruce has been a disaster, not so much because of Sunderland’s league position – they are in the Premiership…
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Will the Clarets provoke the blues?
Posted on 03 December 2011.
The arrival of Burnley at the Boleyn brings to mind Dickens’ opening to “A Tale of Two Cities”: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Let’s roll the clock back to the 28th of November 2009 and remember one of the most remarkable games of the last three years. It ended up 5-3, of course, amazing…
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A kind draw or not?
Posted on 02 December 2011.
Well England’s draw certainly could have been much tougher but any claims that our group is “easy” are very wide of the mark. Sure we beat Sweden at Wembley but how many years did we have to go between victories over them? The odds must be on yet another daw. So that…
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Scott Parker Premiership Player of the Month!
Posted on 02 December 2011.
Congratulations to Scott Parker, Harry Redknapp and Tottenham Hotspurs. What a fantastic bargain Parker is proving to be! No wonder some clubs were prepared to part with a lot more than £5m to prise Scotty away from West Ham. What a shame that the Hammers Hero refused to go anywhere other than Spurs…
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West Ham to sign Peter Griffin!
Posted on 02 December 2011.
How else do you explain a headline of “Family Guy” on the Official Site? It’s a lovely idea! Sam would have somebody fatter than him on the playing staff and if Peter brought along Quagmire, the misdemeanours of Alan Pants Down Pardew would suddenly pale by comparison. Brian could come along too and would be perfectly at home…
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West Ham Tenth in the Premiership!
Posted on 01 December 2011.
It’s just like having Curbishley back! West Ham are tenth in the Premiership table! Not on points of course, we are in the Championship for pity’s sake, but for expenditure on football agents. What a waste of bloody money! Man Utd only paid out £1.3m more, and look how many points they got last season…
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Avram Grant Urges Chelsea to Stick with Villas Boas
Posted on 01 December 2011.
Poor young Villas Boas – it never rains but it pours. With Chelsea crashing to yet another defeat and making an embarrassing exit from the League Cup, the last thing he needed was for Avram Grant to give him his backing! And what is Avram’s logic exactly? His reasoning is probably that…
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Nolan doesn’t miss Newcastle but…
Posted on 01 December 2011.
…he does miss sitters in Claret and Blue!
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Second in the toughest league in the world!
Posted on 30 November 2011.
So there we were, thinking the Championship was a crap league full of mediocre teams! Think again! Hot on the heels of Cardiff dumping Blackburn out of the Carling Cup, Crystal Palace have now joined them in the semifinal by beating none other than Man Utd. So, two semifinalists and the current holders of this great competition are now in…
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Trading Nolan and Parker.
Posted on 30 November 2011.
So that’s it then, based on last season’s table, a win at home to Burnley will ward off the spectre of relegation to the old Third Division! I say this only slightly tongue in cheek because there were those who, following relegation, warned that going through the Championship, like a backstreet vindaloo in New Delhi through the tummy of…
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Liverpool’s Bellyache Brilliant! Fat Belly Not!
Posted on 29 November 2011.
Full marks to Bellyache for wiping away his tears and setting up both Liverpool goals. But what the hell was Fatty Dowd up to? How did he not give that penalty when David Luiz was scythed down in the box. If that wasn’t a penalty then Kennedy wasn’t shot by anybody! Dowd, of …
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Middlesbrough 0 West Ham 2 – Professional, Clinical, Wonderful
Posted on 29 November 2011.
Frankenstein brought his monster to life in November and Doctor Evil has reanimated West Ham United in similar fashion. We had no right to win tonight. West Ham don’t win that far North. West Ham don’t win anywhere away from home in November. But Allardyce does. Credit where credit is due, this is a…
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Half Time Middlesbrough 0 West Ham 1
Posted on 29 November 2011.
So far so good! I questioned the selection of Freddie the Fly Tipper but his goal separates the teams. Middlesbrough weren’t at the races for the first 20 minutes but have come into the game more subsequently and Green has been forced into meaningful action twice. Faubert is playing well and so is Taylor; and Demel is fitting in decently…
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Demel starts, Cole & Collison benched!
Posted on 29 November 2011.
Doctor Evil shuffles the pack again, presumably because Cole and Collison can’t cope with two back to back games, even though Cole was withdrawn 20 minutes before the end on Saturday. What is wrong with those two exactly? The team is high on muscle and low on finesse as usual under Allardyce. No complaints from me tonight because we need players…
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It’s wet, it’s cold, it’s late November, it’s a long way North so….
Posted on 29 November 2011.
…the clever money is on Middlesborough to win by three clear goals! If we get a result tonight, then we will know that Allardyce has changed the club, transforming us from pretty losers to ugly winners; even a draw would represent a minor miracle! The personnel and formation don’t matter, to be honest, it is all about…
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QPR’s Fernandes – The Positives
Posted on 28 November 2011.
He signed Barton. He bought Wright-Phillips. He bought Anton and Traore. He signed Luke Young. He stood behind Warnock. He is looking for a new stadium. He has promised to strengthen the squad in January. He hasn’t sold Taraabt or Faurlin. He has given hope to QPR; and the Rs have surprised a few …
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West Ham to sign African International Centre Back in January!
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Brilliant! If the rumours are true, we are trying to sign Moustapha Bayal Sall in January. Now apart from the fact that he will be nicknamed Crap as soon as we sign him – what self respecting East Ender could resist given his Christian name? – there is the little matter of the African Cup of Nations …
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QPR’s Fernandes freewheeling and back peddling all at the same time!
Posted on 28 November 2011.
It somehow seems a little disrespectful for Fernandes to be spinning his yarns on the day after Gary Speed’s death, but the guy is bursting with bull so I suppose he couldn’t keep it in for 24 hours. Just listen to the egotistic self publicist! Talking about the wheeze of tweeting the fans to ask them to nominate potential new signings…
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West Ham’s Perfect Day – Well Nearly!
Posted on 27 November 2011.
Southampton lost, Leeds lost, Hull lost, Leicester drew, Middlesborough drew, Blackpool drew, Birmingham drew, even Millwall edged closer to relegation whilst taking two points off of Palace. Only Cardiff let the side down by beating Forest, otherwise we would have been the only side in the top half to take maximum points! I keep saying that Doctor Evil has signed…
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Why Gary, why?
Posted on 27 November 2011.
What a terrible waste. Gary Speed was a very decent player, a very decent bloke by all accounts and, based on recent Wales performances, a more than very decent manager; but at aged 42 he has thrown away his life and left a wife and two young children in mourning. What ever …
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Dozy Gabbidon Costs QPR Points
Posted on 27 November 2011.
Good to see Danny Fcuk the West Ham Fans Gabbidon playing his full part in helping QPR to defeat at Norwich. We Hammers fans are well used to seeing forwards unmarked in the six yard box with Gabbidon standing watching, so it is nice to know that Danny Boy is maintaining his West Ham form whilst playing …
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Who in this team runs with the ball?
Posted on 26 November 2011.
One of the biggest problems with the current team is the absence of players with the ability to run past opponents. Tell me, who in the ranks has the pace or ability to take on opposition players and beat them? Faubert should be doing it, of course, but he always seems to receive the …
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Tottenham’s Parker’s limitations exposed
Posted on 26 November 2011.
True Spurs won but, by all accounts they were lucky. I didn’t see the game but the BBC report reads: “The scoreline flattered Spurs, who were disappointing in the first half and lacked creativity in central areas, with Rafael van der Vaart (hamstring) and Luka Modric (ill) both out.” Now there’s a surprise. Like I keep saying, Parker is…
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West Ham 3 Derby 1 – Magnificent Mediocrity!
Posted on 26 November 2011.
The Nolan goal said it all. It was pure class, a beautiful strike, caught perfectly on the volley and drilled exocet like into the bottom corner of the net, beyond the despairing outstretched hand of former Labour Minister for Welfare Reform Frank Fielding. But what had Nolan done before that divine intervention? Absolutely nowt. Within 30 seconds of the…
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