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Currently remaining tickets for tonight's crucial game against Freiburg for a place in the Europa League 1/4 finals are still available on General Sale, but with prices starting at £35 for Adults and £15 for Juniors.

Quite frankly that is ludicrous! With nearly 10,000 tickets unsold, surely the adult price should have been £20 or even lower and kids should have been only £1.00. OK, some people would moan about having paid more than late comers, but surely filling the Stadium is more important given the opportunity it gives the team to progress.

Hot on the heals of Rafa Benitez being sacked by Celta Vigo, after less than nine months. Lazio manager Maurizio Sarri has resigned after a fifth defeat in six games in all competitions, Sarri jumped before he was pushed so essentially was sacked!

63 year old Benitez and 65 year old Sarri have both been linked with managing West Ham over the years, but surely given their age and their recent underwhelming results attained, neither will be on Tim Steidten and David Sullivan's short list to replace David Moyes.

Sometimes it's hard to be a 'realistic' Hammer, the reality of being a mid table team is that the club more often than not has to feed off scraps. So when the next transfer window opens, Tim Steidten will be set the unenviable task of making a 'silk(man) purse out of a sow's ear'!

He will have a bunch of players who have little to no value that he has to move on, while trying to retain the better ones, including the club's 'jewel in the crown' trio of Jarrod Bowen, Mo Kudus and Lucas Paqueta, not forgetting 'El Machin' Alvarez as well!

Unless your club happens to be one of the Premier League's 'top six' elite, you have to be prepared for all sorts of injustices during the course of the season in the hope that "things will even themselves out' by the time the last game is played.

Well, as it stands teams will have to play for a month of Sundays before fans witness anything like a level playing field when it comes to match officials, particularly VAR. Loathed and despised by ALL, VAR has taken fan frustration to a new level!

West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Cresswell, Soucek (c), Phillips, Kudus, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen. Subs: Fabiański (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Zouma, Álvarez, Earthy, Ings, Antonio, Mubama.
Burnley: Trafford, Assignon, O'Shea, Esteve, Taylor, Vitinho, Berge, Cullen (c), Odobert, Fofana, Bruun Larsen. Subs: Murić (GK), Cork, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Benson, Amdouni, Trésor, Delcroix

Ultimately Freiburg 'got away with one' in last night's Europa League game in Germany. The penalty that 'never was' given being a source of much frustration for fans and those within the club.

However the fact that so much hung on a penalty that was contentiously denied is a classic example of why 'Moyesball' doesn't always work.

Setting your team up with a vast distance between defence and attack for a massive European game beggars belief, especially from a manager of David Moyes experience, but the serial defensive man did exactly as many feared and played for the draw!

Freiburg: Atubolu, Sildillia, Ginter, Gulde, Günter ©, Höfler, Dōan, Eggestein, Höler, Grifo, Sallai Subs: Müller (GK), Uphoff (GK), Szalai, Weißhaupt, Keitel, Kübler, Adamu, Muslija, Philipp, Makengo, Röhl, Gregoritsch

West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Zouma ©, Mavropanos, Emerson, Álvarez, Souček, Ward-Prowse, Paquetá, Kudus, Bowen Subs: Areola (GK), Anang (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Casey, Cresswell, Phillips, Earthy, Orford, Ings, Antonio, Mubama

Intermediaries have offered the 30-year-old World Cup winner to Barca, meanwhile, the AS Roma attacker is supposedly a target for West Ham United, are you sure?

Now, don't get us wrong, Paulo Dybala has been among the best players in Serie A for over a decade. The Argentine international rose to fame after joining Palermo in July 2012, Juventus signed him in 2015, and he enjoyed an excellent seven year stay with the Bianconeri before becoming a free agent in 2022.

Not having consumed recreational drugs since being a young ill-advised Musician, it is really easy to use the wrong street vernacular for drugs that are currently in use, but what ever their names are they ALL lead to some form of Psychosis with outcomes ranging from the humourous to the tragic!

Once upon a time, before 'soshall' media and a plethora of online media outlets, managers were generally given a 12 match window in order to be judged, as were strikers. Go back even further to pre-premiership days and that window was even longer!

Football is a results driven game now, no longer is a 'beautiful on the eye' observation good enough to sustain a club and its manager among football's elite clubs unless they are being bank rolled by a Pariah state or owned by investment Cartels that have huge fiscal resources.