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Finally common sense prevails, West Ham United manager Slaven Billic has seen the writing on the wall and confirmed what just about every West Ham fan on the planet already knew, Chadwell Heath is a training ground from the dark ages and that the club need to move their training to Rush Green, home of the development and youth teams! Based on real experience of the place, we can confirm that Chadwell is like a cast iron leaf spring compared to an adjustable carbon ceramic damper when it comes to location and facilities. As we have banged on about before, it 'beggars belief' that an incredibly well assembled squad of multi million pounds worth of talent trains on the modern Premier League equivalent of a turnip pitch!
To be fair, most of the recent catastrophic injuries have been sustained on the pitch during a Barclays Premier League game, but the injuries to Manuel Lanzii and Winston following on so soon will obviously draw attention to the issue that needs to be addressed. Next season West Ham move in to one of the most iconic and best football stadiums in the entire world! Surely does it not make sense to back up that facility with a training ground that is commensurate? Imagine how new or potential new players feel when they arrive in the underwhelming little road that leads to Chadwell, and their horror when they see the 'deluxe' bijou portacabins as they enter the training ground?
This article is not meant to detract from the fact that the co-owners of the club, Messrs Gold and Sullivan have backed their team to the hilt financially, and that they do have to rob Peter to pay Paul on a regular and unrelenting basis to keep everything afloat, but even wise men can sometimes not see the the weather for the stormy seas!
In the great scheme of things, the additional investment required to bring Rush Green up to a decent standard one year ahead of when it was originally scheduled for seems small potatoes in the bigger picture! - Ed

Just when West Ham fans were hoping for a festive respite from injuries, comes the news that saturday's man of the match against Manchester United, Winston Reid, is going to be unavailable to play until the beginning of February next year due to a hamstring injury sustained in training. It does beggar the question, what on earth are they doing during training? Have they invoked some anglo saxon gladiatorial challenge ethos whilst out on the already treacherous training pitches at Chadwell? Years ago an associate of the Org was down among the portacabins that represented the height of luxury for the players, and as they made their way to the dodgy pitches he was most amused that Sergei Rebrov, who had not that long ago been a very expensive player, stumbled on the concrete interface between the cabin and the pitch. The manager at the time, now Crystal Palace's Alan Pardew, laughed and then went in to a minor diatribe about Bobby Zamora's head not being in the 'right place'. Highly paid players getting injured needlessly through poor facilities did not seem to bother him or the hammers hierarchy at all, and it seems that a bit more attention to detail is going to have to be employed if what was a very promising season is not to go off the rails. Reid joins: Dimitri Payet, Diafra Sakho, Manuel Lanzini and Victor Moses on West Ham United's burgoning long term injury list - Ed