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  • If The Hat Fits

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Mon, 06/03/2023 - 06:37

    Current West Ham supremo David Sullivan used to have a penchant for wearing his now politically incorrect Russian hat which is called a Ushanka, which rhymes with what many fans used to call him from the metaphorical terraces that adorn the as yet commercially unnamed Queen Elizabeth Stadium.

    Apart from the obvious 'When will you sack David Moyes?" questions being asked of him, the majority shareholder is having to field off an increasing amount of questions regarding his ownership of the club and WHETHER HE PLANS TO SELL or if indeed he might be forced to sell because of a potentially 'aggressive' take over of the club.

    Since the passing of David Gold speculation has been rife regarding his 25% ownership of the club and what will happen to his shares. Initially it was thought that Gold's family would want to continue with the status quo by retaining their shares and maybe just selling off a few to cash in on their value, however it seems that the 'cretin in the sky', as some call Daniel Kretinsky behind his back, might go behind David Sullivan's back and offer top dollar to the Gold family and become the club's majority shareholder.

    The majority shareholder of any Limited Company can, if they wish, add to the value of the company by injecting cash and bonds which the other shareholders have to match or see their shareholding become reduced in a process that used to be known as 'bear hugging'. Of course when men in suits ran the stock exchange and other strictly private financial organisations these things went virtually unnoticed but not anymore!

    Ironically it won't do Kretinsky's investment portfolio any harm if the club do end up getting relegated because he will be able to buy cheaper, conversely if the club survive he can launch his 'bear hug' knowing his investment will likely go up, a win win situation, it's what he does, in case fans forget, he is a Business man!

    Despite all the bluff and bravado, David Moyes MUST KNOW that in Kretinsky's eyes at least, he is a dead manager walking. There are few options available to arrest the club's decline at such short notice, those managers that are available ALL want long contracts, but in reality at the end of the day money WILL talk.

    How much will relegation cost the club? How much will it cost to payoff the three year managerial contract of a new face in place? Money talks, will Moyes walk? -Ed

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  • Amex Offer Refunds-Irons Don't!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Sun, 05/03/2023 - 11:24

    "That'll do nicely" was the American Express advertising copy line for decades, Brighton fans will be thinking exactly that as they pontificate their 'easy' demolition of West Ham yesterday, the 4-0 scoreline was flattering to the visiting Irons as ALL the good will of last week's 4-0 victory over Notts Forest evaporated, as the late Tommy Cooper would say "just like that".

    In fact last week's rare occurrence merely masked the fact that West Ham are a club in crisis and only the most Claret & Blue of glass wearers would admit to anything to the contrary. In the past the accusations of a lack of investment have been blatantly true, however the current squad is far from inferior, it is just that their manager has 'lost the plot' AND very obviously the dressing room as well!

    Buy a £35 Million striker and refuse to play him because he has a niggle! Well a niggle is travelling to Brighton to see your team capitulate to a team that was bereft of their manager who had guided them to continuous Premier safety and was replaced by someone that everyone thought would fail! Once upon a time players like Alvin Martin would be given a massive cortisone jab ahead of games and told to get on with it, Gianluca Scamacca is a big lad, standing at around 6'5" do you think that he doesn't want to be playing?

    There is loyalty and then there is blind faith, the Hammers board have shown SO MUCH loyalty to David Moyes that they are now blinded by their own faith in a manager who is no longer fit for purpose, unfortunately as the reality of their constant support hits home they are left in an almost impossible 'rock and a hard place' situation, who on earth who is worth their salt would want to take on a club in crisis like West Ham?

    Michael Carrick is the latest 'contnedr' to take over, but why would he want to leave a promotion chasing Boro who are on the up for a disparate and desperate team on the way down? In fact even Alan Curbishley (remember him?) and the like would give the manager's position a wide berth at the moment!

    At some point in time the penny WILL drop, it is only to be hoped that the club can somehow survive in the Premier League before a complete and total change of the management. In the short term the club should move heaven and earth in order to get Alan Irvine back to the club, since he left results have fallen off the cliff, the poor form since his departure was compounded by Stuart Pearce leaving the fold. Since the two of them left, the results have been nothing less than catastrophic with the poor form being glossed over by a modicum of European success achieved against the continent's lower ranking teams.

    "Pull the plug, get rid of the Zombie and think of England" might be the best message to the board, otherwise the AA map of England is going to be a point of reference for away fans as they prepare to visit the likes of Rotherham and Preston next season. - Ed

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  • School Team

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    Submitted by mcbikeman on Sun, 05/03/2023 - 08:46

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    Watching that utter rubbish yesterday and in the comments i did say we were like a team where the players were picked in the car park and sent out to play 11 strangers trying to work out who plays where and does what....Now just hearing and reading what Shearer had to say will anyone listen? as fans we have been saying it all season but because we have never played or managed at that level we don't no what we are on about...well for those of you who have not read it here is what Shearer had to say....i do not apologise for cutting and pasting the following.

    Alan Shearer has given a very clear opinion on where he believes David Moyes stands at West Ham after today’s defeat at Brighton and Hove Albion.

    None of us object to getting beaten so long as the Hammers leave nothing on the pitch. Today they couldn’t leave anything because they took nothing onto it.

    And don’t ask me to start getting excited about the restart of the Conference because frankly it is of little interest given the appalling form this squad is showing under a manager who scares the living daylights out of me because he is near hopeless in most areas.

    I don’t believe he is any good tactically, in the transfer market, from what I hear close to it, dull and boring on the training ground, making pointless substitutions at around the same time most games and usually finding scapegoats – usually, like today, Said Benrahma.

    Oh then of course there is the regular stuff about how we can’t score goals and “we are working on that” along with his refusal to give much team news before a game.

    He is frightened opposition manager will work out how we are gonna play but there’s one flaw in his thinking: They already know!

  • Moyes

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    Submitted by newburkie on Sat, 04/03/2023 - 23:25

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    I'll put it like this ,and its my opinion only,if Moyes isnt gone by monday morning then my theory about the board ,that they intend to take us down ,must be right , but why would they ?, i hear you ask ,the answer ,who knows , it could be a number of reasons their could be hidden incentives we know fuck all about ,i know one thing though ,no other club would put up with this garbage ,that performance today was the worst i have ever seen from a west ham team, EVER , the players out there today belong in the chumps , with the exemption of Rice ,who will be gracing some other team next year, i know i sound like a conspiracy theorist but i mentioned it earlier the only way they could have been that bad was if the players got together and in an effort to get him out played out some sort of kamikaze mission ,not a single shot on target in the second half .
    Again with the exemption of Rice ,who can nearly set his own price this team will be picked to bits by the vultures from other clubs , again leaving out ( possibly ) Bowen and Benny who would you buy if you were the owner of a football club ? .
    To finish ,thanks to our traveling supporters you have been bloody marvelous and you are a credit to this football club ,the players ??? You should be ashamed of yourselves .

  • Live Brighton v West Ham Line Ups

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Sat, 04/03/2023 - 14:01

    Brighton : Steele, Lamptey, Webster, Dunk, Estupinan, Gross, Caicedo, March, Mac Allister, Mitoma, Ferguson Subs: Sanchez, Sarmiento, Enciso, Undav, Gilmour, Van Hecke, Buonanotte, Welbeck, Veltman
    West Ham : Areola, Johnson, Ogbonna, Aguerd, Emerson, Soucek, Rice, Paqueta, Benrahma, Ings, Bowen Subs: Hegyi, Anang, Cresswell, Scamacca, Fornals, Lanzini, Downes, Zouma

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  • Brighton today

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    Submitted by mcbikeman on Sat, 04/03/2023 - 07:48

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    Can i just point out to mr Moyes that todays game is not one for bending over and touching your toes!

    Bogey side or not lets try something different like putting Ants wide on the right play Ings and Bowen together up front and Benny wide left as the invisibleman is still not fit! Pac and Rice in the middle with Oggy/Aguered/Johnson and Emerson in a flat back four with Areola or Soucek:-) in goal.

    Come on David show us you can change i'll start holding my breath! COYI.

    Altogether now that includes you Burkie...We've got super errr mmm i think i better go have a lay down.

  • Th'Ings' Could Have Been So Different!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Thu, 02/03/2023 - 18:00

    Ahead of last night's FA Cup game few people have Hammers a chance against Man U at Old Trafford, ultimately the home side prevailed with an immensely flattering score line, but things could have been SO different had the normally immaculate Nayef Aguerd not had an absolute stinker of a night AND Big Mikey Antonio hadn't fluffed his lines on at least TWO separate occasions!

    Aguerd's display was a one off that happens to even the top players in rare games, he will be fine for the next game away to 'Bogey' team Brighton & Hove Albion. However, Mikey Antonio's performance wasn't a blip, more like a continuation of a poor run of form stretching back the entire season!

    Antonio busts a gut for the club and will always give it his all, but as he will be the first to admit, a striker he is NOT! That was plain to see last night when he could have and should have scored when put clean through on goal with only De Gea to beat, but worse was when he was again bearing down on goal with Said Benrahma running into space square of him and yet he elected to go it alone with a shot from an impossible angle whereas Benrahma would have had a tap in from close range that he would NOT have missed.

    For once David Moyes cannot be blamed for the 'Antonio' situation because new signing Danny Ings was cup tied, oh and how he was missed! It is not beyond comprehension to envisage Hammers could have left Manchester as victors if only Ings had been playing, he would have had an absolute field day against the complacent home team.

    Hammers could have been at least two up, possibly three before the break, such were the proliferation of chances on offer as Hammers completely dominated the home team. Alas it was not to be, Mikey huffed and puffed until he was replaced by a clearly unfit Bowen and the team played deeper and deeper until it was too late.

    Gianlica Scamacca was brought on for the remaining five minutes which saw Hammers concede two goals which gave the final score such a false reading. The Premier fixtures on the same evening proved to be rather good and hopefully if the team can put in a shift like they did last night (errors excluded) there is every chance the club can claw itself away from the bottom of the table and begin to think about next week's 'Con Cup' game in Cyprus. - Ed

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  • Now Live Man Utd v West Ham Team LIne Ups

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Wed, 01/03/2023 - 18:54

    Man U : De Gea, Dalot, Lindelof, Maguire (c), Malacia, McTominay, Sabitzer, Fernandes, Antony, Garnacho, Weghorst Subs: Heaton (GK), Martinez, Varane, Wan-Bissaka, Casemiro, Fred, Pellistri, Elanga, Rashford.
    West Ham : Areola, Johnson, Aguerd, Ogbonna, Emerson, Rice ©, Souček, Paquetá, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio Subs: Anang (GK), Cresswell, Kehrer, Swyer, Downes, Lanzini, Bowen, Scamacca, Mubama.

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  • Defeatist Moyes Might As Well Not Turn Up!

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    Submitted by nevillenixon on Wed, 01/03/2023 - 18:52

    Ahead of tonight's FA Cup game David Moyes was hardly the man to inspire his troops ahead of them going over the top! "I am hoping we can give them a good game, we have to defend against so many good players in the Premier League," Moyes told the media. "Rashford is one of them and we played them earlier in the season and we were really unfortunate. David de Gea played really, really well to keep them in the game or we could have had a positive result. It was very close in the league, and I am hoping we can give them a good game this time around."

    Talk about negative Nancy, the way Moyes was talking was like the beginning of an Autopsy, NOT inspiring his team ahead of a fixture where the opposition might be vulnerable due to winning the Moose Cup at the Weekend and ahead of a crucial Premier League game against bitter rivals Liverpool!

    Setting your team up to survive might have been valid when there were replays in the FA Cup, but there aren't replays anymore! Games go to extra time and Pens now, so why play for a draw by being defensive? Moyes might as well go for it, realistically no one expects a Hammers win so why not let his players have the freedom to express themselves, you never know what might happen. - Ed

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  • Fabo Crocked

    Submitted by Louis Nixon on Wed, 01/03/2023 - 10:24

    Hammers keeper Lukasz Fabianski may require surgery after suffering a fractured cheekbone and eye socket caused by an 'over zealous' tackle from Forest's Jimenez. The 37-year-old Poland international sustained the injury during Saturday's 4-0 win.

    At the time of the Injury defender Nayef Aguerd was furious with the Wolves forward for what he saw as an unnecassary follow through of the ball when it was clearly the keeper's!

    Manager David Moyes was unsure how long Fabianksi, who has started all 24 Premier League games this season, will be absent for."We don't quite know whether it'll be operated on or heal itself, or a time-span at the moment," Moyes said. French International Alphonse Areola replaced Fabianski after 69 minutes at the weekend and was immediately called into action, producing a string of fine saves. He is set to continue in goal for Wednesday's FA Cup fifth-round tie against Manchester United.

    The Irons, who travel to Brighton in their next league match on Saturday, are 16th in the table, only two points above the relegation places. It looks like Areola is set to feature in plenty of games with the Con Cup games following shortly as well as the massively important domestic games which are coming thick and fast.
    Areola has been 'champing at the bit' to start as many games as possible INCLUDING all the Premier League games, but as part of the goal keeper's Union would not have wished for his opportunity to come in this way. 'Fabo' is likely to be out for some time, although the full extent of his injury cannot be properly assessed until the swelling around his eye has reduced.

    It is however feared the very popular Fabianski could be ruled out for the remainder of the season, not what the club wanted or needed, but at least the silver lining is that Areola IS a top keeper and let's face it, Hammers need one at present! - LN

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