Interesting to read that the Board have warned Allardyce to be realistic in his wage demands. Maybe, just maybe, Sullivan and Gold are hoping that the big headed dolt will walk off in a huff if they offer him a figure beneath his sense of self worth. Sacking Allardyce would be a huge risk. If he were to walk away…
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Will Allardyce be eased out over contract negotiations?
Posted on 26 March 2013.
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Bony to Boost Skeleton Squad
Posted on 24 March 2013.
Sorry, had to be first with the headline. After Dem Bones Ba came and went in no time, reports suggest that we have added to the spine of the team for next season by signing goal machine Wilfried Bony from Vitesse Arnhem. West Ham fans will be delighted if the reports prove to be true, but there is a …
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Allardyce looking over shoulder as QPR’s Redknapp is linked with West Ham return
Posted on 24 March 2013.
Well talk about a rabbit out of the hat! With Allardyce still sweating on a new contract, some mischievous sods have suddenly mooted the possibility of ‘Arry returning to lead us into the Olympic Stadium. Allardyce will not like that! For as long as the rumours centred simply on his going, with no realistic alternatives being suggested, he probably felt relatively secure…
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West Ham 15 Tottenham Hotspurs 0 – Work that Daniel Levy!
Posted on 23 March 2013.
Sorry it’s been a bit quiet here over the past week, I’ve been torn between laughing and crying. Of course I am sad at the imminent demise of the Boleyn Stadium. Every West Ham fan will hold a fond memory of the stadium of Ron Greenwood and Bobby Moore, the stadium of Hurst and Peters, the stadium of Brooking, Bonds and Devonshire…
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Farewell To The Boleyn
Posted on 22 March 2013.
August 23rd, 1969. The team read: Ferguson Bonds Charles Peters Stephenson Moore Lindsay Boyce Bennett Hurst Sissons Who was on the bench? I can’t remember. The players wore numbers one to eleven. Warming up consisted of a few pot shots at goal. The pre match meal was probably pie and chips washed down with a pint of…
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Idiot Louts Shame West Ham Again
Posted on 18 March 2013.
Time and again they shame our club and time and again the club fails to take decisive action. How many “fans” received life time bans after the Tottenham game? And how many will be told never to enter the ground again after this latest shameful episode? I know somebody banned from the Boleyn and I have been to an away game with him. The tickets were…
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Still Not Safe!
Posted on 17 March 2013.
Never mind events at Stamford Bridge, with Noble, Nolan and Cole all ruled out, today was always about damage limitation, and keeping the score to two meant that was achieved. Our goal difference is still decent and much better than Villa’s, Wigan’s, Norwich’s, Reading’s and QPR’s. But complacent Hammers who keep insisting we can’t go down should study the Premiership table tonight. This …
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Stevenage 4 Sheffield United 0 – Sue West Ham!
Posted on 17 March 2013.
Tevez hat trick! Oh no, sorry, it was Dani Lopez! Then sue Spain! Or El Cid. Or Sid James at least. Or Queen Isabella. Or Hatti Jaques. Or Pablo Picasso. Or Neil Pickyourarsehole! Or Salvado Dali. Or Gaudi or Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Ex Maria virgine. Gaudete! Or de Cerventes or Hernan Contes or Jose Carreras – he must be good for four tenners! Stevenage. I ask you!
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Di Canio Trying To Kill Off Allardyce Through Kindness
Posted on 16 March 2013.
Interesting to listen to Il Duce Di Canio in his BBC interview rubbishing links with Reading and talking about his special relationship with West Ham and the club’s fans. IDDC identifies the Hammers as “the one club…the one English club” dearest to his heart – the correction was for the ears of the Lazio Ultras no doubt – and then goes on to say how unfair any specualtion…
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Poor Tevez Can’t Win!
Posted on 08 March 2013.
It’s just not fair. Poor Tevez has been arrested for driving whilst banned. What was the guy supposed to do, employ a driver and sit in the passenger seat? Sheffield United would have started a legal action claiming a Third Party Agreement!
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Would Watford’s Scott Duxbury Care To Respond To Richard Scudamore’s Comments On Third Party Agreements?
Posted on 07 March 2013.
Now I have to be careful here. Watford Football Club don’t take kindly to criticism and their lawyers are especially protective of Scott Duxbury if emails I have received are to be believed. However, Watford and West Ham fans might be interested in listening to an interview with Richard Scudamore and, …
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Barry Hearn Making An Irritating Buzzing Noise Again!
Posted on 06 March 2013.
Isn’t it time somebody rolled up a newspaper and swatted him? Or better still, send one of those trucks round that suck waste out of septic tanks and train its vacuum pump into Hearn’s office? As a kid, I used to love sucking bluebottles up the hoover, hearing them buzz up the metal pipe, banging…
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Allardyce Does His Best To Depress West Ham Fans
Posted on 04 March 2013.
Just when we were smiling, Allardyce came along and wrapped his size 11 sweaty socks round our faces. It seems the choice is simple: we get relegated and Allardyce goes; or we stay up and Allardyce stays. So it’s heads we lose, tails we lose. The joy of supporting West Ham United!
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Why West Ham Fans Were Right To Boo Scott Parker
Posted on 03 March 2013.
Poor Scotty was hurt and bemused. He couldn’t understand why West Ham fans booed him last Monday night, claiming he didn’t expect it and didn’t deserve it. Well I beg to differ. Long standing friends and enemies of this blog will know I was never a fan of Parker as a player and called his selection as Player of the Year, …
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Stoke 0 West Ham 1 – A Priceless Victory!
Posted on 02 March 2013.
Make no mistake, this result was huge. Had we lost it, the anxiety would have been unbearable; had we drawn it, the tension would still have ratcheted up; but coming away with three points has pushed the relegation genie deeper down into the bottle; the cork is still a little loose, but with Reading and Southampton both losing and Norwich getting thumped, we can all breath a little easier tonight. To …
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Half Time Stoke 0 West Ham 1 – Replacements Combine!
Posted on 02 March 2013.
It hasn’t been pretty but what football that has been played, has been played by ourselves. In the battle of the long ball merchants, Pulis has so far stayed true to type, whilst we have tried to play it through midfield much more. First off, the goal, which was superb. Vav Te ran at defenders, pushing them back on the …
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Toxic Claret & Blue Waste Dumped In Portland
Posted on 01 March 2013.
We tried to dump him in Doncaster but the local environment committee objected. There was talk of Leeds but that came to nothing. Wolves had a sniff but the pungent aroma of sulphur made them look elsewhere. But God Bless America, despite all their toxic loans, Freddie The Fly
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Allardyce or Di Canio?
Posted on 28 February 2013.
(Article submitted by Steve Heighton) The big question BFS v PDC . There holder v the pretender . The experience v the new boy . The drab v the flair and so I could continue but I won’t . The important thing is here is to forget the press and the clamor of isolated…
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West Ham 2 Tottenham 3 – Narrowly Mullered!
Posted on 25 February 2013.
Well if we are honest, Tottenham could have scored six in that second half. Jussi was truly inspired and kept Spurs out time and time again as Tottenham created chance after chance from corners and we chased shadows as Bale went into overdrive. Allardyce did a great job of motivating Arsenal when he said they couldn’t cope without Van Persie and he repeated the trick for this one when claiming Spurs were over reliant on Bale. Wouldn’t we just love to have a player like him to be overly reliant on? Until we went ahead we were in the game, but …
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Half Time: West Ham 1 Tottenham 1 – Rare Upton Park Assist For Parker!
Posted on 25 February 2013.
Well it could have been worse! Allardyce opened his big gob pre match to announce that Tottenham are overly dependent on Bale, so that guaranteed the Welsh Ronaldo would score. And sure enough he did, courtesy of a strange intervention from Demel which sent the ball across his own box right to Bale’s feet. But, and I’m whispering this, thus far, Tottenham haven’t threatened that much, the goal apart – except for a superb save from Jussi to keep out a Caulker header. When we have the ball, we have stretched Spurs. The movement of Joe Cole and …
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Depressing Team Screams Allardyce Conservatism
Posted on 25 February 2013.
Give Osborne control of the economy and the nation loses its triple A rating; let Allardyce run your club and austerity bites deeper and deeper when in comes to attacking intentions. Tonight’s team makes depressing reading. No Noble – is he injured? O’Neil plays ahead of Collison. Tomkins doesn’t even make the bench. Demel starts so Bale will be licking his lips! Where’s Vaz Te? Injured or jettisoned? The OS tells us nothing! Does this team inspire? Jussi Demel, Collins, Reid, O’Brien O’Neil Diame, Nolan Cole Jarvis Carroll I would love to be proved wrong but it looks the wrong team to me. Is Paulista still at the club?
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Sliding Closer to Catastrophe
Posted on 25 February 2013.
When I warned a few weeks back that we still faced a battle to stay up, the optimists scoffed. We were sitting comfortably in mid table. Reading had started winning but wouldn’t keep it up. Villa were useless. QPR couldn’t hope to catch us. Wigan were doomed. Well it’s looking very different now. The gap is down to six points. Reading will end up with 36 points at least. Wigan have begun their annual Great escape…
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Doris in tears as West Ham trial Bolton tea lady
Posted on 21 February 2013.
With news that Ricardo Gardner may be about to join the Bolton émigrés at Upton Park, 88 year old tea lady Doris Garnett was found in floods of tears yesterday morning after discovering that Allardyce is thinking of bringing in Nora Bates from Bolton as her replacement. Husband Reg, 93, a life long West Ham fan, told reporters: “Doris was inconsolable went she got home yesterday afternoon. She arrived at work to find a strange …
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Should Allardyce Start Sweating Following Di Canio’s Resignation From Swindon
Posted on 19 February 2013.
Well he lasted 12 months longer than I predicted, but Di Canio has walked away from the Swindon job, exactly as I said he would do. There’s no denying that, based on results, he has done a fabulous job, but in terms of high maintenance, he is Joan Collins, Liza Minnelli and Jordan rolled into one. Talk about flouncing in and flouncing out again, in a little over 18 months, the Italian …
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Sheffield United Prove There Is A God!
Posted on 14 February 2013.
So West Ham continue to underwrite Shafting United’s flounderings in the old Division Three! With the final stage payment of the Tevez compensation due this year, the Blunted Blades sit in fifth place in the table, adrift of the mighty Bournemouth, Doncaster, Tranmere and Swindon, and level on points with Brentford and Yeovil Town! All that money, and what good has it done them? …
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West Ham can’t afford to sack Big Sam
Posted on 12 February 2013.
Allardyce is no doubt smiling at reports that Poyet might succeed him at Upton Park. Apart from the fact that the Uruguayan has achieved nothing as a manager to date, Doctor Evil might point to an aggregate score of 7-0 in head to head games between them last season. West Ham fans might not like Allardyce’s style of football, but his teams…
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