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There is life without Dec
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One man cannot make a team no matter how special he is and so like many who feared a battering after hearing he was out of the bindippers game the team managed quite well without him and although we did not win we did alright it actually showed how much we missed having a proper STRIKER who surely would of buried at least one of our chances..by not being there and so not the focus for the whole side we were not overrun and we aquitted ourselves quite well.
Will he stay or will he go? like yourselves i do not have a clue and if he looks at Grealish and just how few games he has played this season for Citeh maybe he will think nope i will give it another year but at the end of the day why worry our Massive club will still be there and new heroes will come to the fore but it is a TEAM sport not a one man band.
Biased Blinkered Bull!
If ANY West Ham player had stopped a Liverpool player with a clear run on goal by fouling them they would have received a red card, somehow Diego Jota got away with a yellow. Andy Robertson 'took out' Jarrod Bowen and may have effectively ended Hammers pursuit for a trophy this season and received nothing at all.
John Moss had an appallingly biased game roared on by the chattering masses that ate up ALL his leanings towards their team and had a thoroughly wonderful day, the fact that they cheered when Bowen was injured showed just how little style they have.
As an ex-Liverpool player once said "I will love it, if they fail" that is the sentiment of many Hammers fans as the scousers ponder being able to attain success in FOUR competitions. There should really be no surprise as to the bias shown in their favour by officials, after all the Vernon family used to provide holiday villas for officials back in the day and their connection continues, although it WAS thought that John Moss was beyond their influence. Perhaps the bin dippers found out the address of Moss's record shop and threatened to burn it down, it is not inconceivable.They probably also found out the address of the VAR adjudicator as well, IF a similar decision that OK'd the hometeam's goal had been given against them, their would have been uproar.
IF West Ham had not been so profligate in front of goal, this rant might have been somewhat tempered despite the bias shown by the match officials, David Moyes' refusal to add a striker has really come back to bite savagely and the club now go into it's most important week in 40 years devoid of it's most prolific front man, because there is NO WAY Bowen will be fit for the Europa Cup tie against Sevilla on Thursday, indeed there are doubts as to whether he will play again for the entire season if his Achilles has snapped as feared!
So well done Liverpool, get a player's ex-team mate to cripple him, pay off the Ref and sanction your crowd's obscene treatment, we wish you all the best, NOT! - Ed NB: Sour Grapes? You Betcha!
Live Liverpool v West Ham Line Ups
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Konate, Robertson, Keita, Henderson (c), Fabinho, Salah, Mane, Diaz. Subs: Kelleher, Milner, Gomez, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Elliott, Jones, Minamino, Jota, Origi.
West Ham: Fabianski, Johnson, Dawson, Zouma, Cresswell (c), Soucek, Fornals, Bowen, Lanzini, Vlasic, Antonio. Subs: Areola, Diop, Fredericks, Masuaku, Okoflex, Chesters, Noble, Kral, Benrahma.
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West Ham have Sham69 Chelski have Madness the spuds have
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Dec Knows Best!
“I am just trying to enjoy my career. It is going quick already. I think of three years ago, when I won Young Player of the Year, it has flown by since. There have been so many good moments. Hopefully, my career can keep progressing and WE can start adding some big trophies as well.”
So said Hammers in demand central midfielder Declan Rice who has been hailed as the best in Europe and possibly the World! Rice along with his manager David Moyes picked up a gong at the London football awards, recognition of the superb progress the player, his manager and their team have made in the last 18 months.
West Ham have endured a torrid spell ever since the last International break, results have not been good but they haven't been good either for Hammers Champions League chasing competitors either. Every time it looks as if hopes of a champions league slot have disappeared, the clubs around West Ham, particularly Tottingham and Manchester United conspire in failing to take advantage.
Obviously the luck will run out at some time and a daunting visit to Anfied this afternoon will not fill fans with anticipation of anything other than a resounding defeat, but stranger things have happened in the past!
The Press love 'deciding' which club Declan Rice will join, completely omitting to mention the fact that Rice has two years remaining on his contract AND the club have an option to extend by a further year. The 'WE' Declan was referring to wasn't about Chelsea, Man City or their poorer neighbours, it was about WEST HAM UNITED.
There will be plenty of time for analysis and conjecture come the end of the season, but right now the players focus is on the club finishing as high as possible in the Premier League and to try and progress in the Europa League Cup, the winners of the trophy of course directly qualify for the Champions League.
No one gives Hammers a prayer for a positive result against Jurgen Kloppp's Liverpool, but the players who take to the field will NOT be intimidated by the 'Anfield roar', after all they are used to playing week in week out in front of a far bigger crowd at the Stratford Stadium.
Including today's game, there are 11 Premier League games left to play against Villa, Tottingham, Everton, Brentford, Burnley, Chelsea, Arsenal, Norwich, Man City and Brighton. The games against London rivals Arsenal and Tottingham will be pivotal as to the club's fortunes, hopefully they won't fade and die. - LN
Well don Dec
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Another 10 million on the asking price .good man Dec
Knives Out For Irons
The absolute glee with which Hammers FA Cup exit away to Southampton has been reported does go to show how envious many are of what David Moyes and his West Ham team have achieved in the last two years. The transformation from regular relegation fighters to genuine top six contenders has been nothing short of miraculous, especially so given the limited resources Moyes has had at his disposal.
Exiting the League Cup at the 1/4 final stage and reaching the last 16 of the FA Cup are significant signs of a club 'on the up', Hammers are also due to play Seville next Thursday for the first of their two legged Europa League last 16 Cup tie. Why anyone would lead with headlines like 'Hammers season nearly over' is quite beyond us, perhaps many were concerned that little old West Ham might upset the elite Old Guard at the top of the League?
Yes things could have worked out better, but they could also have worked out a lot worse! The players and the manager were not right at the top of their game against Southampton, but to read the reviews you would think the team played appallingly, which they didn't.
Instead of highlighting what has gone wrong, it might be preferable to concentrate on what has gone right over the last two years. The club's chronic lack of recruitment IS a salient lesson in how to do things wrong admittedly, but take a look at some of the Premier League's recent big spenders and see just how well their spending sprees have affected their success.
David Moyes constantly talks about building the club on firm foundations, to a great extent he has succeeded in that quest, but he never said it would be easy did he? Sometimes it is easy to forget what a disparate and desperate club West Ham were before his arrival, it hasn't been all plain sailing but we would suggest that fans be careful what they wish for, as the grass is most definitely NOT always greener on the other side. - Ed
Live Southampton v West Ham Line Ups
Southampton: Caballero, Walker-Peters, Valery, Stephens, Perraud, Diallo, Smallbone, Ward-Prowse ©, Djenepo, A.Armstrong, Long Subs: Lewis (GK), Livramento, Bednarek, Romeu, Walcott, Redmond, S.Armstrong, Adams, Broja
West Ham: Areola, Johnson, Dawson, Zouma, Diop, Fornals, Rice ©, Souček, Lanzini, Bowen, Antonio Subs: Randolph (GK), Alese, Král, Ekwah, Chesters, Okoflex, Vlašić , Benrahma, Perkins
Saints In Sight Says Moyes
David Moyes gave one of his 'vague' pressers at Hammers Goose green training ground ahead of tomorrow's fifth round FA Cup tie away to Southampton, the gist of what he was saying is that he wants the club to be near to the top of the Premier League as possible because those near the top invariably win.
"We've been involved in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, got to a good stage of the FA Cup, and we're involved in Europe. The Club's doing a really good job. We want to be more around the Cup Competitions, but even through history, it's been the top teams who have tended to win the competitions, so we have to try and get ourselves in a position where we've got more of a chance of reaching semi-finals and finals and hopefully winning them as well."
The manager then addressed his thoughts on the impending game against the Saints. "I think Southampton's form recently has been very good. The Premier League at different times of the season does that. We've had interesting games against them over the years. They came out on top last time, so we know it's going to be a really difficult game. A good run of form keeps you in there all the time. They're recovered from a difficult start and I think they're doing very well at the moment."
Last season Souhampton were on fire at the beginning, but fell away atrociously towards the end of it, sounds familiar? Hammers fall from grace has not been as acute as that of the South coast club's, but a poor run of form, injuries and of course 'Kittygate', all conspired to derail what promised to be an astonishing season.
Those elements and the 'phantom of the transfers' almost sucked the life out of the indomitable spirit Moyes had engendered in his squad, Sunday's vital victory over Wolves might have been a bit scrappy, but no one cares about the style when the points are added up at the end of the season!
We expect David Moyes to 'go strong' with his team selection for Wednesday's game, it may mean sacrificing players ahead of the Liverpool game, but realistically it is highly unlikely that the game will be anything other than a dead rubber. Mind you, whoever gets to play at Anfield will be able to do so knowing that ALL they have to do is give it a REAL GO, fans can forget a poor result, but tend not to forgive a lack of effort. - Ed
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