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Manuel Pellegrini looks certain to 'wield the axe' ahead of the london derby against Arsenal at the Emirates this weekend, having seen his team trounced 4-0 by Liverpool on the opening day of the season followed by the lame 2-1 capitulation to Bournemouth at the London Stadium, change is afoot. The 'nice' man will not be so nice in the future, the results will have opened his eyes up to the size of the task ahead of him although he must have had a pretty good idea of what was to come!

Manuel Pellegrini was an angry man during his post match press conference following West Ham United's 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth at The London Stadium, he blamed the players for 'feeling the fear' and the fans for deserting the ground in their droves well before the match was due to end. However the 64year old Chilean reserved his most scathing criticism of his players for the spanish speaking media, he declared that apart from showing fear some of the players believed that the match was won by half time, and that his warnings were ignored by 'some players who should have known better'.

The London Stadium, packed house, the dawning of a new era, after an initial early flurry from the visitors which include Fabianski having to make a very good save Hammers eased in to the match and were playing 'expansive' attractive football, unfortunately there were some worrying signs of defensive naivety showing early on.

West Ham: Fabianski, Masuaku, Ogbonna, Balbuena , Zabaleta , Noble, Wilshere, Anderson, Snodgrass, Hernandez Arnoutovic.
Subs: Adrian, Fredericks , Yarmolenko, Diop, Antonio ,Obiang...

West Ham United have been drawn an away fixture against Wimbledon, or The New Dons as they are now called, for the second round of the Carabao Cup, or League Cup as most fans refer to it, with the fixture to be played during the week commencing Monday the 27 of August, TV schedules permitting.

Part of Manuel Pellegrini's brief on arrival as the new manager of West Ham United was to run the rule over the club's youth and academy players as well as the senior squad. Youth players, with the exception of Declan Rice, hardly got a look in last season due to the constant battle against relegation, Slaven Billic and then his replacement David Moyes were totally reluctant to throw the youngsters in to desperately fought matches.

Fresh from the televised mauling by liverpool last Sunday, Manuel Pellegrini's West Ham team debut at the naming rights unsponsered London Stadium keen to make amends for the 'brutal' events up at Anfield. A four nill loss would normally force a manager, not least a new manager, to reassess their approach but that is not the Hammers manager's way.

The question was going to come about sooner or later, and it turns out that a controversial decision in the first game week has sparked a discussion as to why VAR won’t be used in the Premier League this season.

No this is not a 'click bate' headline although West Ham fans will think so, news has reached us at The Org regarding Tottenham Hotspur's attempt at extricating themselves from their uncompleted White Hart Lane Stadium dilemma by negotiating to play one game at West Ham United's London Stadium. Hammers london rivals had been expected to play their first game at the new ground on 15th of September against Liverpool but that match has now been switched to Wembley, their following home game against Cardiff on 6th of October has also been moved to Wembley.

Three goals in four minutes either side of half time changed the course of West Ham's Premier League 2 opener against Tottenham at Stevenage tonight, everything was looking like Spurs would win comfortably at the Lamex when they took an early lead through Samuel Shashoua, they created more chances after that and looked likely to add more goals.