OK, so we could take the “Get in there” approach. It was a win. It’s another 3 points. It’s back to back victories. A few weeks back, consecutive games against Brighton away and Leicester at home looked threatening so 6 points is an excellent return for the last 6 days. We are second. There is a 3 point…
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3-2 against Leicester. As many questions as answers!
Posted on 30 October 2011.
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Allardyce Outfoxed at Half Time by Caretaker!
Posted on 29 October 2011.
You have to wonder why these managers are paid huge salaries. Half time, two goals to the good, Leicester on the ropes and no manager to sort them out; the second half should have been like stealing crisps from a kid. But far from it! The caretaker put down his broom, changed Leicester’s tactics …
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4-4-2 Sam Going For It!
Posted on 29 October 2011.
So it seems as if a dual strategy is emerging: 4-5-1 away from home seeking 1-0 victories, and 4-4-2 at home, looking to force the opposition onto the back foot. The team today reads: Green O’Brien, Faye, Reid, McCartney Faubert, Noble, Nolan, Colison Baldock, Carew So, Diop is not used to hold which suggests that job falls to Noble. Let’s hope he shows…
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West Ham Fan Power Frustrates Allardyce!
Posted on 29 October 2011.
He’s admitted it! It was the pressure from the fans that blocked the Diouf deal! Explaining why we didn’t sign Hell Hadji, Doctor Evil said: “Obviously I had to bear in mind the situation at the club with the fans. It was sensible to take everything into consideration and the most important thing is we…
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Green and Tomkins back for Leicester – But does that help?
Posted on 28 October 2011.
So Green and Tomkins are back in contention for the game against Leicester, although personally I doubt that either will be risked. What’s the point of pitching them in too early, only for them to break down? It seems more likely that both will start on the bench, not least because their …
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Allardyce decides to spit rather than swallow!
Posted on 28 October 2011.
Well thank God for that! Doctor Evil has decided to send Diouf back to the sewer from which he crept. Apparently the decision is based on Hell Hadji being out of condition, but that sounds like an excuse to me. The pressure of the blog sites may well have been a critical factor as Gold and Sullivan – attuned …
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Remember The Shining – Beware The Leicester Caretaker!
Posted on 27 October 2011.
Ok, Jack Nicholson hasn’t been linked with the Leicester job yet and all those in the running are more like the two dimensional cartoon villains in Scooby Doo, but nevertheless, the sacking of Sven may not be to our advantage this weekend. Remember the last time we came up against a team with a caretaker manager? O’Neill had just parted company with …
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Grant, Zola & Curbishley all neck and neck for Leicester job!
Posted on 26 October 2011.
Well the headline is a little misleading I accept because all three are well down the field of candidates, but Avram, Alan and Franco are all listed at the same price by William Hill at 20-1. And with O’Neill likely to rule himself out over the next 48 hours and Grayson saying he isn’t interested, one of the …
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Hall Earning His Oats At Oxford
Posted on 26 October 2011.
One of the depressing things about Allardyce is his reluctance to trust the kids. I can’t remember what his record was like at Bolton and Blackburn when it came to blooding youngsters, but I seem to remember Bolton being packed with a collection of old lags. Whilst we are stuttering, lacking…
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QPR v Chelsea: John Terry You ******* White ****, You ********
Posted on 25 October 2011.
I’m not sure where I stand on this one to be honest. Leave out the word black and what Terry is alleged to have said to Anton seems fair enough to me. Even when he wore a West Ham shirt, many Hammers fans would have agreed with Terry’s character appraisal of a guy who is certainly an A1 twat at…
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Five Points Above 13th Place!
Posted on 25 October 2011.
The Allardyce acolytes, suplicants at the throne of Satan in my book, keep pointing to the table as if Allardyce is working a miracle at West Ham; but the fact is, we sit in second place only on the basis of goal difference and Leeds, Hull and Birmingham all have games in hand which could…
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Give Allardyce the credit he deserves!
Posted on 25 October 2011.
(Article submitted by Kevin in Manchester in response to “Allardyce shows his true colours”) You are wrong on so many levels to criticise Allardyce on the back of lat night’s victory over Brighton. F irstly Sam laid out his plan even before the season started … play like security dogs away and more …
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Allardyce shows his true colours
Posted on 25 October 2011.
In the Wife of Bath’s Tale, the Knight is given a choice: does he want to be married to a beautiful woman who he can never trust, or would he rather have an ugly hag for a wife who would never sleep around because nobody would ever fancy her. Well, I know what I would …
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Leicester Hit Panic Button Sending Sven Flatpacking!
Posted on 24 October 2011.
Well, you Foxes fans can’t say I didn’t call it. My post on Saturday about Sven’s imminent dismissal made it to the top of the Leicester City News Now board and on October 16 I asked, “How long before Leicester plat pack Sven and send him back to IKEA?” Irate Leicester fans told me then that I didn’t know what I…
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Brighton 0 West Ham 1 – A Shameful Display of Crude Cowardice
Posted on 24 October 2011.
That was truly shameful. The pragmatists will say it is all about the win and credit a “brilliant defensive display” – but they are kidding themselves. Brighton are a poor team. They made poor decisions all night and, despite the good footballing ethos of Poyet, couldn’t pass their way around a set of M25 bollards. But we are not …
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4-5-1 Again – No Baldocks!
Posted on 24 October 2011.
So Doctor Evil is as scared of Brighton as he was of Southampton – even more so in fact because he isn’t even starting Baldock for this game! So, it is 4-5-1 with the goal threat offered by…well Carew and Nolan who can’t hit Faubert’s arse from three feet at the moment. Faubert and Collison on …
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Allardyce Laments Loss of Arab Investor
Posted on 24 October 2011.
Doctor Evil was speechless this morning as he stroked his white cat and lamented the loss of a potential Arab investor whose billions would have taken West Ham “to the next level”. Talking ahead of the journey down to the South Coast for the head to head battle with play off contenders Brighton and Hove Albion, a…
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QPR Stun Chelsea
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Well played Warnock’s boys! I must confess that I expected Rangers to get a spanking, but the form book in the Prem was turned upside down as the Rs took a giant stride towards safety. That is certainly three extra points banked against anything achieved by Grant led West Ham United and gives QPR real hope that they might make…
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Allardyce Sums Up Diouf Perfectly!
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Anthropologists from around the world are hurrying to Chadwell Heath after Doctor Evil alerted them to the fact that Hell Hadji Diouf is the man they have been looking for since time immemorial. Explaining why he is having a “good look” at the Spitting Fury, Allardyce honestly said that Diouf “could be” the “missing link”! …
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The Championship Table Screams Mediocrity and Allardyce Incompetence!
Posted on 23 October 2011.
OK, we have a game in hand but it is away to Brighton and, after our tame performance at Southampton, does anybody genuinely feel confident that we will take more than one point from that one? Let’s just consider the table on the basis of a share of the spoils with the Seagulls shall we? At the top sit …
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Leicester to sack Sven?
Posted on 22 October 2011.
I asked last week how long it would be before Sven would be flat packed back to IKEA; and one smart arsed Leicester fan came on and posted, “I’m not going to get too worked up about one defeat (away at Birmingham, yeah that’s always easy) seeing as though we …
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Ilunga Excelling at Doncaster!
Posted on 22 October 2011.
Apparently Doncaster are paying Ilunga £2,000 a week whilst we meet the other £24,000, but boy are we getting value for money just to keep him 169 miles away from Upton Park! Since Rita was drafted into the team, Doncaster have shipped 8 goals in 3 games, losing all three matches in the process! …
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QPR’s Dyer Aiming for December Return!
Posted on 22 October 2011.
You have to laugh. Kieron Dyer is apparently five weeks ahead of schedule in his latest recovery programme and is already out of his protective shoe according to the increasingly desperate Warnock. Protective shoe? This guy needs to be in a protective bubble and should never set foot outside of it. As we speak, Kieron is coming under attack from…
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QPR Teetering on the Edge of the Premiership Abyss
Posted on 22 October 2011.
QPR host Chelsea tomorrow, with the handshake between the gnarled and belligerent Warnock and the suave and sophisticated Villas-Boas serving as the perfect metaphor for the gulf between the two teams. Chelsea have a swagger in their play at present, QPR a stagger. Chelsea’s reserves could probably give Warnock’s boys a run for their money and not…
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No Tevez, Diouf Instead!
Posted on 22 October 2011.
One looks like an ugly troll and is the most reviled footballer on the face of this earth, and the other is the devil incarnate. So, missing out on Tevez and replacing him with Diouf is, in many ways wonderfully appropriate. The trouble is, Tevez is a genius and Diouf is just an out and out…
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Here comes Frankenstein’s Monster!
Posted on 21 October 2011.
It was always inevitable. You appoint Doctor Evil and it is only a matter of time before you will have a stable of evil bastards, all spitting fury. Diop and Faye were the outriders, crude mechanicals paving the way for the arrival of the sperm, or phlegm, of Satan. And so it …
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