Ok we need a left back, but £35k a week for a Romanian left back who has been plying his trade in the Ukraine? What a joke! And it gets worse. The guy is 31 for pity’s sake, and we are reportedly offering him a three year contract. Madness. I suppose the absence of a…
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A 3 Year Contract for a 31 Year Old Romanian Rat? Findus did a better deal!
Posted on 29 April 2013.
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Aston Villa 6 Il Duce’s Sunderland 1 – When did an Allardyce side last ship six goals?
Posted on 29 April 2013.
All those West Ham fans wetting themselves at the thought of Di Canio managing the club might like to reflect after tonight’s Blunderland horror show. Just like his idol Mussolini, Di Canio started well at the Stadium of Plight, but the Premiership is a 38 game season and a couple of victories count for little in the long run. The win over Newcastle was courtesy of some dreadful decisions by the…
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Allardyce Unfairly Critices Team After Manchester City Defeat
Posted on 28 April 2013.
Something must have crawled up Allardyce’s arse on his way to the game. How else can you explain his downbeat assessment of a highly creditable and passionately committed performance at the Etihad. Yes we lost, but as I said in my half time report and match report, we gave Unreal City a game, which we had no right to do when you look at the cost of…
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Are Pardew’s Newcastle too good to go down?
Posted on 27 April 2013.
It’s 0-6 at home to Liverpool as I write. And Suarez isn’t even there to bite Pardew on the arse if he drops his pants! Amazing!
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Manchester City 2 West Ham 1 – Dignity in Defeat!
Posted on 27 April 2013.
Bloody hell, we looked Unreal City’s equals for much of that second half. True Toure’s goal was brilliant and Carroll’s was bloody lucky – with Mother Superior Jussi telling that young slut Hart the virtues of keeping your legs shut after the game – but we passed the ball well, got forward frequently and played with tremendous spirit. Another …
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Half Time: Manchester City 1 West Ham 0 – Second best but not by £200m!
Posted on 27 April 2013.
Well we are behind, but only just, and only because Jussi woke up feeling a little arthritic this morning. The Unreal City goal was brilliantly worked, but Jussi spread himself like a frigid Mother Superior with cystitis, and seemed more obsessed with keeping his legs shut than getting his hands to the ball. Two minutes later, he almost handed City another…
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Paulista to feature this season and Morrison next?
Posted on 27 April 2013.
Dear God, the thought of it is probably giving Allardyce sleepless nights. He has a talented South American in his squad and, with survival all but guaranteed, he might feel under a little pressure to give the guy a game. You what? Actually play the lad? But he has the F word. He has flair! And then there’s the impending threat of the Return of Ravel…
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Sporting Life headline provokes trembles at QPR
Posted on 25 April 2013.
Dear God, the Sporting Life really should take more care with its headlines. Just imagine the anxiety in Shepherd’s Bush as the headline “Green reported to the Fraud Office” appeared on the News Now boards! “Dear God, even the authorities have seen through Butterfingers!” a voice must have squealed in the PR office. England keeper? Worthy of a salary of 50…
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Butterfingers Green at fault again as QPR lose to Stoke
Posted on 21 April 2013.
How amusing. As Jussi pulls off a breathtaking save to keep us ahead against Wigan and on course for a victory that guarantees our Premiership survival, England’s 666, Butterfingers Green, gets a weak hand to Crouch’s low velocity shot, and fails to prevent it going over the line. I’m not sure what Jussi is earning at Upton Park, but you can bet …
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West Ham 2 Wigan 0 – It’s official, Fat Sam’s singing!
Posted on 20 April 2013.
Well it was classic West Ham in one sense – we were kept on the edge of our seats until late in the game before our Premiership place was guaranteed for next season. With Sunderland, Newcastle, Norwich and Stoke all winning, the team chose the worst possible time to switch off, but switch off they did at half time, and for the bulk of…
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Half Time: West Ham 1 Wigan 0 – So Far So Safe
Posted on 20 April 2013.
Well again it hasn’t been thrilling – unlike the midweek game against Man Utd – but who cares? The chance for Maloney or McCarthy apart – I can’t remember which – we have been comfortable and we could have scored two or three ourselves. In one sense the goal was fortunate – Jarvis didn’t intend to net – but in another…
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Will Wigan’s Whelan sue West Ham over Tevez goal?
Posted on 19 April 2013.
Oh the irony. Back in the Great Escape Season, it was Sheffield United’s McScab and Wigan’s Whelan who led the protests over Tevez and who threatened to form a footballing and legal Axis against West Ham. On the pitch they did their level best to engineer the survival of both clubs, only for Tevez to drive a stake through the Warnock’s heart …
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West Ham 2 Man Utd 2 – Robbed by incompetent linesman!
Posted on 17 April 2013.
Bloody hell! That was so close to an epic victory, and yet again incompetent officials determine the result rather than brilliant football. Diame’s goal was a classic and deserved to win the game. And so it would have done had the linesman done his job, looked along the line, saw that Van Persie was beyond the last man, and raised his bloody flag. But that’s too much to …
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Half Time West Ham 1 Man Utd 1 – And Wigan are drawing at Man City!
Posted on 17 April 2013.
As I keep warning, this bloody relegation battle could yet get messy. You look at all the permutations and you think, surely we can’t go down, but should Wigan get a result at the Etihad, the nightmare may yet happen. Unless we can get something tonight! To be fair, we did not look like relegation candidates during that first 45, but we all know how the …
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Why is Princess Brady desperate to justify money spent on Jarvis?
Posted on 16 April 2013.
There’s no doubt that Gold Sullivan and Brady have done a lot of tidying up regards the financial side of our club in order to stabilise us, so they should be given credit for that. But let’s not ignore the fact that it was first and foremost in their own interest that they did so. With that positive acknowledged, what concerns me with them is their tendency to make huge…
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Will Financial Fair Play scupper West Ham’s rise or make it easier?
Posted on 15 April 2013.
The Financial Fair Play rules are on their way and are already being offered as an excuse for not buying Andy Carroll. However, the club must be in a much healthier state now than when Sullivan and Gold took over. Heavy weight wage earners such as Dyer and Parker have been shown the door, and a …
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How bad is Pogatetz?
Posted on 15 April 2013.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Southampton’s Rodrigues as a player and think we were bloody lucky he didn’t start because of a virus, but Messi or Ronaldo he aint, and Pogatetz made him look like a world beater after his introduction. How long was the former Miserableboro man on the pitch? About 20 minutes? And in that time he was done all ends up, collected…
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Sunderland’s Victory Over Newcastle Means West Ham STILL Need Another Win and QPR are Down!
Posted on 14 April 2013.
Oh dear God, this season is beginning to shape up like 2002/03! How many points are going to be needed to stay in the Prem? I certainly wouldn’t fancy staying on 38 and Zola’s 35 certainly wouldn’t have kept us up! Those draws at Liverpool and Southampton are now looking so, so, so precious. Still it could we worse, we could…
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Southampton 1 West Ham 1 – Allardyce passes acid test thanks to virus in Saints camp
Posted on 13 April 2013.
Well it was never pretty – in fact we played more football at Anfield – but who cares? Another point and we would be incredibly unlucky to go down from here, even if we contrive to lose 4 home games on the bounce. Jussi was superb today. Those who insist Green is a better…
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Sothampton Game An Acid Test For Allardyce
Posted on 13 April 2013.
After the excellent draw at Liverpool, today’s game against Southampton will be an interesting acid test for Allardyce. His supporters argue he has done a superb job, keeping the club just above the relegation pack, but Southampton have climbed above us in the table, and should we lose today, will pull clear …
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David James and Shaka Hislop Put Jack Boot into Sunderland’s Di Canio
Posted on 09 April 2013.
Interesting to read both Shaka and David James chipping in their five pennyworth in the Il Duce Di Canio debate. According to Shaka, Di Canio is not a racist – not that anybody has ever suggested he is – but he does question the Italian’s ability to manage in the Prem and suggests he walks a narrow line between “genius and insanity”. David James goes further, saying that he always regarded Di…
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Which Liverpool Game Was Allardyce Watching?
Posted on 08 April 2013.
Don’t get me wrong, I thought we were superb as my match report reveals, but Allardyce’s analysis of the game on Match of the Day was utterly perverse. No mention of the brilliant defensive work of Collins and Tomkins – that was left to Hansen – but instead a strange claim that we had…
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Liverpool 0 West Ham 0 – Brilliant Defensive Display!
Posted on 07 April 2013.
My God we nearly won! If only Collison’s header had cleared the defender on the line! That was one of the best West Ham displays I have ever seen. Over the years I have grown royally sick of our lay down and die attitude at Anfield, and Allardyce’s critics might like to reflect after that showing. Collins and Tomkins were immense. I lost count of the number…
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Half Time – Liverpool 0 West Ham 0 – Next 45 minutes or so could be dangerous!
Posted on 07 April 2013.
Well that’s the best 45 minutes West Ham have played at Anfield for as long as I can remember. In fact, with a decent number 9 leading the line, we could even be ahead! That said, the defending has been brilliant but last ditch on too many occasions. Vaz Te put in a superb tackle …
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QPR and Reading are down, but 40 points still needed to avoid drop
Posted on 06 April 2013.
Thank God we beat West Brom. Had that game been lost or even drawn, I would make us amongst the favourites to join the Hula Hoops of QPR and Reading in the Championship next season. But that victory has given the division a false look from a West Ham fan’s point of view. We sit in middle table, but we sit on a…
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Di Canio, Sunderland, Facism & West Ham’s Lucky Escape!
Posted on 04 April 2013.
Well, I go away to the mountains for a week and it all happens. I posted last week that I couldn’t see a club managed by O’Neill being relegated, and the Black Cats promptly sack him after a defeat at home to Man Utd, courtesy of a cruel deflection. Mad or what? But that as just the beginning! The appointment of Il Duce Di Canio to replace…
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