Oh dear. QPR fans came so smug upon the mart when I warned that over confidence down to a goodish start would prove dangerously premature ( http://thegamesgonecrazy.blogspot.com/2011/09/qpr-beware.html ). I warned that the fate of Blackpool should be noted after their brilliant start to last season and pointed…
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QPR hit for six as reality bites!
Posted on 02 October 2011.
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Oh For Ba’s Broken Knee!
Posted on 02 October 2011.
I admit I was opposed to his signing, fearing the worst given his catalogue of injuries, but what would we give to have Demba Ba in the team right now? With Ba scoring for fun, and Newcastle sitting in a crazy third in the Premiership table (a place higher than ours in the Championship!), it is becoming…
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Better going forward; Worse at the back!
Posted on 01 October 2011.
How do we react to a 2-2 draw at Palace? Like a 0-0 draw at Millwall, not the worst result in the world perhaps? Or another two points dropped? According to Doctor Evil we dominated the game, but we had to come from behind twice to draw it. Yes we had 55% of the possession and yes we…
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Time for Sam’s Yobs to Smash up the Palace
Posted on 01 October 2011.
In the good old days, East Enders marching on the Palace would bring to mind images of passion, fury and threat. The mind might turn to the Peasant’s Revolt and the King meeting the common yobs at Mile End. Angry faces, combative voices, clenched fists…it all sounds right up Doctor Evil’s street. But West Ham were always the …
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The Great West Ham Rip Off
Posted on 30 September 2011.
I’ve just received my tickets for the Blackpool game. One each for my son and I and one for my 13 year old Grandson at £24. You can imagine how pleased I was to see on the OS that this game is now “Kids for a quid” I see they did…
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Que? Manuel Almunia arrives looking for his hamster!
Posted on 30 September 2011.
Remember the outrage along Green Street when somebody mooted the possibility that Manuel Almunia might be selected for England, replacing England’s 666, Robert Slippery Fingers Green? How ironic, therefore, that the blunderful Arsenal keeper has arrived on a month’s loan to replace the injured Green. Now as regular readers will know, I am no fan of…
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Captain Nolan still talking the talk!
Posted on 29 September 2011.
You have to love the guy don’t you? Hot on the heels of another inept personal and team performance, Captain Kev has come out and told the OS how we are targeting victory at Palace on Saturday. Or are we? Sadly not. Nolan talks about digging people out and waving the finger in the dressing…
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Tottenham’s £17million support funding for new stadium is a disgrace!
Posted on 28 September 2011.
What the hell? When libraries and swimming pools are being closed, when public sector workers’ pensions are under attack, when life saving drugs are being withheld because they are too expensive, why in the name of YHWH is public money being pumped into support infrastructure for a football club’s new stadium? …
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Come Home Tevez!
Posted on 28 September 2011.
After his latest blow out with Mancini, Tevez is as welcome at Unreal City as genital warts at an orgy. But where can he go? The transfer windows around Europe have slammed shut and so, other than a loan to a lower league club, Carlito may have no escape route. Unless we offer him one! Bellamy shocked the football world when…
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KUMB in the rear
Posted on 28 September 2011.
On September 22nd, I posted an article entitled “Nolan the obstacle to 4-4-2” and 6 days later KUMB have caught up and are asking “Is Kevin Nolan part of the problem?” Whilst Mr Dale may be delighted that KUMB is in the rear, I am shocked at how long it is taking for the penny to…
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West Ham 0 Ipswich 1 – Hammers on course for promotion!
Posted on 27 September 2011.
So there you have it! We played Cardiff at home and lost 1-0. We played Leeds and were lucky to draw 2-2 courtesy of an own goal. We played Pompey and needed a player sent off to win the game. We played Peterborough and needed a dubious penalty to steal three points. So I was critical. I warned …
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You heard it here first, Baldock starts!
Posted on 27 September 2011.
Exactly as revealed by TGGC, Sam Badock makes his first start tonight, although it remains unclear if this is truly 4-4-2 or an adaptation of the 4-5-1, with Baldock pushed wide. My money, unfortunately, is on the latter. The side reads: Green, O’Brien, Tomkins, Faye, McCartney, Lansbury, Noble, Nolan, Bentley, Baldock, Cole. The absence of Taylor through injury suggests to me …
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Beware the Law of the Ex: Bullard returning home, and Bowyer is back too.
Posted on 27 September 2011.
Two of football’s bad boys may line up for Ipswich tonight against former employers West Ham. Bullard never really got a break at Upton Park, never kicking a ball in anger for the club. For a few seasons, he looked the real McCoy at Wigan and Fulham and even made it into the England squad, so it…
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Baldock Starts Tonight!
Posted on 27 September 2011.
Word on the street has it that Little Sam will get the nod from Big Sam to start tonight’s game against Ipswich. With fans growing restless about the lack of forward momentum and none of Carew, Cole nor Piquionne looking like goal machines, Allardyce is set to turn to the new…
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QPR’s Warnock Wins Preliminary on Points
Posted on 26 September 2011.
Bristling with rightful indignation, Neil The Gob Warnock won a crucial preliminary bout with cruiser weight Armand “Dangerous” Traore on route to his title showdown with Joey “The Cnut” Barton yesterday. Enraged by Traore’s dismissal for a “stupid” foul, Warnock promised to fine his young defender the “maximum amount”. The world …
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The Big Fat Allardyce West Ham Love In
Posted on 26 September 2011.
Ah, Doctor Evil has suddenly come over all mushy. Never mind recent results – Uncle Sammy focuses on the four goals scored at Forest and Watford anyway – what matters is that the players have bonded socially and enjoy each other’s company apparently! True the team hasn’t gelled, but no matter, the buzz word for this…
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Nussbaum on KUMB Knocks Hammers Fans
Posted on 25 September 2011.
I’m not a big fan of KUMB – it plays the party line 99.9% of the time – but Daniel Nussbaum’s latest article really takes the biscuit. According to the Allardyce brown noser, the fans don’t understand what is going on and shouldn’t be criticising the negativity displayed in playing 4-5-1 at home to little old Posh. We should marvel at the genius…
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Our loss is Newcastle’s gain. Sacking Pardew is where it all went wrong!
Posted on 25 September 2011.
The blame has been dished around. It was Eggert’s fault. It was Brown’s fault before him. It was Turds and Nani and Zola and Grant. Spector was to blame. Noble is to blame. The players couldn’t be arsed. The tactics were wrong. Blah, blah, blah. Well I have maintained all along …
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Why have we bought Baldock exactly?
Posted on 24 September 2011.
If there was ever a game that cried out for 4-4-2, with Baldock up top alongside a big man, it was today’s game against Peterborough. We went into the game on the back of a sterile performance at Millwall but were still clear favourites to put Posh to the sword; not surprisingly, given Peterborough arrived with an…
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West Ham 1 Peterborough 0 Well that was pathetic!
Posted on 24 September 2011.
I didn’t see the game but a 1-0 win care of a dubious penalty is not good enough. The die hards will claim we haven’t gelled yet but when are we going to gel exactly? Next season? Nolan still isn’t firing. Cole was replaced by Carew but there was no attempt to go 4-4-2 again. Faubert was pulled off again…
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Team Speculation – Much ado about nothing!
Posted on 24 September 2011.
Still 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 with no change from the team that started against Millwall, except Faye replaces Tomkins who is presumably still feeling his injury. Baldock, Carew, Tomkins and Bentley on the bench. Has Collison been abducted by aliens perhaps?
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Fry Mocks QPR
Posted on 24 September 2011.
It comes to something when an overweight intellectual homosexual intrudes a digit into the ocular orifice of your association of football practitioners. Verbalising his cerebration on the One Show last night, Stephen Fry compared the reaction in Norwich to promotion to the muted response to winning the Championship in Shepherds Bush. In effect, Fry suggested that QPR are not a proper football …
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What is it with Noble?
Posted on 23 September 2011.
Why is it that Mark Noble divides so many West Ham fans? I don’t think any of us believe he is a future England player now, but it comes to something when people claim he isn’t good enough to play in the team in the Championship! Some would have you believe that Noble is the cause of …
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Under Allardyce, the Champions League is just around the corner!
Posted on 23 September 2011.
What a sensational start Doctor Evil has made as manager. Picking up the chaos left behind by Zola and Grant, he has transformed the club from top to bottom in a matter of months, and built a squad of players equipped to storm through the Championship and challenge for the Champions League as soon as we have claimed …
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Nolan the obstacle to 4-4-2
Posted on 22 September 2011.
With Doctor Evil apparently contemplating a switch to 4-4-2, the thorny issue of what to do with Captain Kev resurfaces. Just as Parker posed selection problems because managers refused to use him in his best role – as a holding midfielder…
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Reality Check Two – Look who West Ham have played so far!
Posted on 21 September 2011.
People really are getting carried away. Why did we start last season so dreadfully? Well, loads of us predicted it when we saw the fixture list. Villa away, Bolton at home, Chelsea at home, Man Utd away…
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