Over the many years we have become accustom to West Ham, the nearly boys, good football but not quite there in terms of the upper echelons of the "Big League"?

Well, the stats say we are the 20th most wealthy club in the World. In terms of attendance / ticket sales the 11th best supported team in the World.

We spend nearly £100M on new faces in the squad in the last transfer window.

So, the question must be, is it fair to accept that a team bottom of the third league should even come close to beating us?

I think we can discuss and debate the strategy of El Pel but at the end of the day each and every player that pulled on the shirt that night needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.

A win tomorrow and all is forgiven? Umm... not for me!

The FA Cup is special and this season, or more precisely right now, we are not in danger of the drop and a fantastic chance to push for silver and a European slot fades away... yet again.

Reveling in the spuds spiral out of cup competitions and watching it slowly dawn on the spud fans dense grey matter something we all new before a ball was kicked and that is they are gonna win FUC*A*l out comes there man Poch who claims winning trophies/silverware is just an ego trip finishing in top four and champs league far better....ok fine but whats the point? even if you could win it you dont want too as that leads to big egos so happy to win some money for the board but not trophies for the fans..what a sad Wan**r he is.

His brother rocked the boat he waved goodbye he sulked not picked for two games and then bam nice new fat contract on the table.....so What will the club do if say Declan Rice decided hey i am worth more than the new deal i just signed and then go knocking on the boards door Agent beside him spouting citeh interested so give us £££££££'s or we will be off....big old can of worms the board have opened there.

El Pels words not mine....so i hope he puts the Desire into them pretty quick because they do it way too often...and El Pel when looking back on the Wimbledon disaster take a long look at yourself and make the changes a lot quicker and put a rocket up one or elevens backsides when they just stroll round the pitch for there £80/90 grand a week...simply put hard choices need to be made about certain players and they need to be shipped out PDQ...

Far be it from me to bring up the antics of another football club on our site but I sure am getting pissed off with the media going all out with Oli and his magical 8 ,as far as I can remember footballers going on strike is strictly frownd on by the F A and to put it mildly that's just what happened under Marino ,don't get me wrong ,I'm no lover of this mega poser but to refuse to play because you don't like the Manager is to me a disgrace ,now all of a Sudan their a different team ,winning 8 on the trot ,I really do think that club should be the subject of some sort of sanction by the powers that be even if it's only a fine or points deduction ,just because it's them they are allowed to get away with this shit ,their even being made to look like hero's by some in the media ,motd and sky to mention two

Lanzini back with the first team squad doing some light but well monitored training as he continues his recovery from the injury last summer....he may MAY be in line for a spot on the bench and some action in a little over a month, if he keeps up with his recovery/training regime.....i hope his recovery keeps on track and when he comes back he is still the player that we all no and love.

£100million spent in the summer the team slowly gelling and getting better still work too be done on the defence and midfield and now we suddenly are in a full blown striker crisis...Arnie and Hernandez both want out Carroll/Perez clearly not good enough Silva too young to carry the burden on his own so just what are the club going to do?if Arnie is to get his Brothers wish and go to china the said money for his transfer will be made available for an immediate replacement if one of any worth can be found....thats all well and good but that also means come the summer we will need another two minimum and they do not come cheap and off course that will take money from other areas of the squad that need strengthening we will see a number of departures as well but not players that will bring in decent money so where will the board find the Cash? if we are too keep on moving forward....getting Carroll/Hernandez/Arnie off the books will of course free up the wages that can be offered but i do worry that the board will try and go back to there old ways of bargain buys and freebies.

been linked by mr ssn himself jim white for £15million....Genoa striker been banging the goals in he is 23 from poland i will leave it too Burkie to find a you tube link for the player...chicarito goes then this guy looks nailed on to come in apparently

David Wagner has left Huddersfield Town as manager by mutual consent with the club bottom of the Premier League, Ze German, 47, took over as Terriers boss in November 2015 and led them to promotion to the Premier League in 2016-17 via the Championship play-offs. Huddersfield were one of the favourites for relegation last season but somehow Wagner kept them up with a 16th-place finish, but he couldn't work his magic this season, with just 11 points from 22 games, and eight points adrift of safety.

Antonio saying everyone at west ham knows Arnautovic wants to go - then get rid asap. His performance against Arsenal was poor anyway and we did fine without him in the matches before. The question here is - who do we bring in to replace him? Lets hear the realistic candidates.