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Working in London does at times feels like it drags a little bit with the exorbitant costs of virtually everything, the endless tube journeys, bus rides sat in hectic yet stationary traffic, and living in a city together with such a sheer mass of people despite its numerous beautiful green parks and nature reserves.

Most Hammers fans view media 'observations' like "a snip at £24 Million" with a certain degree of sardonic humour, during the Pellegrini era such sums seemed a mere Bagatelle for him and his brown envelope loving head of recruitment Husillos. Unfortunately the club is now in the middle of paying for those excesses and questionable fees incurred during their profligacy, at the worst possible time due to the fiscal fall out from the Covid Pandemic.

Pin the Donkey, or more correctly Pin the Tail On The Donkey, was a game played by generations of kids in gentler times, when there were no mobile phones, computers nor the dreaded 'soshul' media! The game involved being blind folded, spun around and then released with pin in hand to stick it in the target, which was a Donkey's 'Arse'nal!