Well what do you do with the guy? Mr PR, all smiles and on message statements and no crucial contributions on the pitch, Mark Noble gave his usual anonymous, mistake ridden performance. True he assisted our second goal with a one two and a superb driving run at the heart of the Cardiff defence before releasing Nolan to score, …
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Mark Noble has a mare as West Ham defeat Cardiff in season opener
Posted on 17 August 2013.
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Bonds award a clever ploy to set the mood for Cardiff game
Posted on 17 August 2013.
I don’t mean this in a cynical way, but making an award to Bonzo before the Cardiff game can’t do us any harm, with the fans stoked up for the battle by recognising a genuine West Ham hero. When “outsiders” are asked to nominate the West Ham greats from the last 50 years…
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Can we afford to let Vaz Te go to Nottingham Forest?
Posted on 15 August 2013.
With Forest rumoured to be interested in Vaz Te, the question arises, can we afford to let him go? He may not be Premiership class but he can play up front, and we have precious few players who can do that. Allardyce may be bluffing of course, but he claims we are not going to sign anybody else, so as things stand we have an injured Carroll, …
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Allardyce’s Midfield Headache
Posted on 13 August 2013.
(Article submitted by Stani) With the season all set to kick off, it will be interesting to see the first choice midfield Sam Allardyce chooses to go with. Personally, I think he’ll have a bit of a headache which he’ll try to relieve by cramming the midfield with 5 rather than …
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Full marks to Sullivan & Gold – Again!
Posted on 12 August 2013.
OK, I’m not a big fan of Downing, but if he is unveiled as a West Ham player tomorrow, you have to give huge credit to the owners again. After shelling out somewhere between £12m and £15m for Carroll, many of us thought that we would pad out the squad with loan signings and cheapies, but the Board had different ideas. The signing of Downing shows…
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West Ham Fight Club target Liverpool’s Sterling as well as Downing & QPR’s Barton?
Posted on 12 August 2013.
Never mind bruising the football using Allardyce’s lump it long tactics, it’s looking like West Ham are following Hull City Tiger’s example, by seeking a name change to West Ham Fight Club. We already have Andy Carroll and Ravel Morrison on the books, so just imagine what it will be like if we sign serial thug Barton, alleged girl friend beater Raheem Sterling (on …
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QPR’s Barton to West Ham, Noble to Sunderland?
Posted on 11 August 2013.
West Ham fans who have campaigned against Noble for years may be about to get their just deserts with rumours that we have revived interest in signing Joey Barton. The deal would only make sense if Allardyce is considering cashing in on Noble. Di Canio, of course, has seen a lot of Noble, watching West Ham games over the years. He understands Noble’s qualities and knows that he…
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Will John Terry offer his condolences to former Hammer, Sunderland and QPR man Anton Ferdinand?
Posted on 10 August 2013.
How the not so mighty have fallen! I admit to defending Anton when he was a West Ham player but I couldn’t believe what Blunderland paid for him, and it remains hugely ironic that Curbishley walked because the Board pocketed absurd amounts of dosh from the sale of Pug and McCartney. Nani was clueless when it came to recruitment, but when it came to disposal, his …
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Downing from Liverpool? Will we never learn?
Posted on 09 August 2013.
Dear God, let’s hope the rumour is wrong. Why the hell would any club pay £6m for that perennial underachiever? OK, I accept that we could do with some more pace in the team, but the guy is approaching 30 and has never been anything other than an ordinary player. In many ways, he …
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Will West Ham consider a name change as well as a change of stadium?
Posted on 09 August 2013.
Exciting developments at Hull, with the club moving with the times and changing their name to improve branding opportunities. Bored by old fashioned Hull City, Egyptian owner Assem Allam has decided to incorporate the club’s nickname into the official title of the club. No doubt the City will be dropped altogether in due course, …
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Braga defeat must force Sullivan’s hand
Posted on 07 August 2013.
OK, the result is irrelevant and the game will be very quickly forgotten – one of the most tepid matches in the history of football with a total exclusion zone around both goal mouths apparently agreed before kick off – but the 90 or so sterile minutes illustrated perfectly our desperate need for another striker to both back up and support Carroll. Season after season we fail to address the most glaring weakness…
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Unsporting Lisbon 2 West Ham 3 – A Ravelation!
Posted on 05 August 2013.
Am I missing something? Sporting Lisbon are a pretty good team aren’t they? And this was just a pre season friendly wasn’t it? So how comes we outplayed them, scored three times without Carroll and Diame in the team, and the match was played in a ferocious fashion with the Lisbon coaching staff doing their nuts when…
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Half Time – Lisbon 1 West Ham 0 – Anything but sporting!
Posted on 05 August 2013.
Hang on a mo, somebody should tell both sets of players that this is a pre season friendly, not a winner takes all show down. Some of the tackles have been distinctly tasty and at one point, both teams were on the point of a mass brawl after Maiga was trampled on. Very unseemly. Up until the award of the dodgy penalty in the last seconds of the half…
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Why is Remy on his way to Newcastle?
Posted on 05 August 2013.
So what the hell is going on? Why are we letting Loic Remy join the French Foreign Legion in Newcastle rather than snapping him up for the bargain £2m that the Barcodes are rumoured to paying for his services for a season long loan? Once again, we are playing brinkmanship as the new season…
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Danny Gabbidon returning to Prem with Crystal Palace!
Posted on 05 June 2013.
Incredible, you can’t keep an old yard dog down it seems. Despite Doing a Dyer and spending most of the season in the treatment room, ex Hammer Danny Gabbidon has been given a one year contract extension and will be playing in the Prem again next season. Palace were already nailed on favourites to go down. This news should shorten their odds still further! What’s Upson up to? Perhaps…
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Negredo bid shows intent and Liverpool’s Suarez would be happy!
Posted on 05 June 2013.
Ok the bid was rejected, and ok, Negredo was, like Carroll, reluctant to make the move to the Boleyn, but the fact the bid was made shows the determination of Sullivan and Gold to push on from last season. Was Negredo seen as an alternative or as a partner for Carroll? If…
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And the winner of the second prize at Leeds…
Posted on 04 June 2013.
Good to see the Yorkshire club honouring at least one of its promises to the fans with the Official Site announcing the winner of the competition to win two season tickets for 2013-14. Mind you, if the first prize was two season tickets, we are left wondering what the second prize was? Five season tickets perhaps?
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West Ham hold all the cards as Liverpool and Newcastle cold shoulder Carroll
Posted on 03 June 2013.
So Liverpool don’t want him. And Newcastle aren’t interested either. Which leaves Carroll with nowhere else to go. Now, given we hold all the cards, it’s time to offer Liverpool a revised deal. First off, they should be required to meet a percentage of Carroll’s wages. They were bloody foolish enough to pay him 100k per week and they are …
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West Ham to sign the Spanish Rob Green?
Posted on 03 June 2013.
Anybody know anything about Adrian? Apparently he is on a free transfer. And apparently he improved over the course of last season. And apparently he is only an understudy to Jussi anyway. But Jussi’s arthritis has to cut in soon surely, so we need an understudy capable of doing the job full time if the need arises. Not one to set the pulses racing but if …
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Reading’s Kebe to West Ham?
Posted on 31 May 2013.
Really? Jack Collison will break his nose every time Kebe bends down in the dressing room to pull up his socks! I prefer Vaz Te personally.
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The return of the Bentley boy from Spurs?
Posted on 29 May 2013.
David Bentley anybody? Thought not. But with bloggers desperate for news, the former Arsenal, Norwich, Blackburn, Tottenham and West Ham dud has been linked with a return to the club. If ever there was a guy who flattered to deceive, Bentley is the man! Even his name has pretensions of grandeur. Most …
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Insane business at West Ham?
Posted on 29 May 2013.
Has anybody ever heard of Ludovic Sane? It sounds like a made up name to me but according to one tenuous report, we are chasing the defender come holding midfielder come butt of all sorts of punning newspaper headlines. Sane business or otherwise? Anybody got any idea? How good is he on Championship Manager? I understand from my …
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Martinez to Everton? Who cares, it’s the badge that counts!
Posted on 28 May 2013.
So, unless he backs out as he backed out when offered the Villa job, Martinez is destined to be the next manager of Everton FC. It is, at the very least, an interesting appointment. I wonder, when was the last time that a manager, who had just overseen relegation, given the chance to take over a top 6 team? …
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Joe Cole in Dreamland!
Posted on 27 May 2013.
I’ve heard it all now! Joe Cole was never really good enough even in his prime, but now he has set himself a target of being in England’s squad for Brazil! First of all, England have to qualify, and that’s no forgone conclusion, and then there’s the little matter of Cole being too old, too slow…
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Watford’s Zola admits he deserved the tin tack at West Ham
Posted on 26 May 2013.
Good on GianFredo. He had the opportunity to criticise Gold and Sullivan and gloat about our subsequent relegation under Avram Grant, but he resisted, confessing that he lacked the experience necessary and therefore that the decision to remove him was right. Of course, some West Ham fans will still argue that Zola could have gained that experience whilst still managing the club – and let’s face it, he couldn’t have…
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West Ham must stop signing players from Arsenal!
Posted on 25 May 2013.
Dear God, if reports are right on the net, we have been paying 40k per week for Marouane Chamakh to do next to nothing for the last 5 months. What a monumental waste of dosh! And it’s not as if the guy is an isolated case. Arsenal FC stitch us up almost every time we go shopping in North London! The most famous example …
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