A video has shown up on C&H with transcript this morning. All I can say is that it is a disgrace to West Ham Fans. Of course I can understand their anger. DS was probably angry too -- but he kept his cool. Still, he's a lot shorter on video than I thought, and older too, so to me the approach of those fans looked bordering on an assault. And the expletives were pretty hard to take. Look, I feel the same fundamental view as those fans felt -- Big Sam has to go -- but I wish they could have approached the co-chairman with a little more grace and dignity. Anger is OK, but the personal abuse is uncalled for. And the abuse hurled towards KB uncalled for too. What do you think?

http://t.co/TTmJOm8f6X i doubt if this link can be accessed or not , probably not because im tosh at computers but i came across this on twitter yesterday and ive got to say its one of the most mind boggling photographs ive ever seen , if it doesn't come up then Google the" pale blue dot" ,the late, great Carl Sagan gives an unforgettable talk , it shows the earth at about 6 billion Kilometers from space its the actual photograph taken by Voyager 1 25 years ago as it was passing Jupiter on its way to Saturn , talk about insignificant , someone wrote " i would love to take every terrorist , extremist, fanatic , religious fundamentalists , dictator and every one else who thinks spilling blood for a tiny fraction of this place is worth it , and lock them in a room with this image for 24 hours

So much to talk about recently and thought this forum was never coming back! Nice job Nev looks fantastic, just need to get used to the changes.

puts today result into perspective

What happened to the purple FA Cup shirt? was that a bad omen not wearing it?

Booked a romantic table for 2 for me and Mrs Boogers tonight cos that's the type of bloke I am......Best of 5 Frames....

i cant think of a single game in our history where we collapsed completely like that , or is collapsed the wrong word seeing as we were never in the ascendancy, God only knows what the spuds will do to us next week , we were unlucky in one sense , unlucky it was live on the telly

That was grim watching today and hard to stomach. Totally outplayed and outthought in all areas. We were so ineffective and lethargic, lacked creativity. West Brom wanted it more. Nolan Song and Noble useless. Cresswell and Tomkins also out of sorts. Quite the worst I have seen this season but not sure when we played well last discounting the heroic defending against Southampton. We just look cack.

Discussing the Adrian red card affair has made me think about how the offence of handball is treated by referees. The rule book says:

"Referees are reminded that deliberately handling the ball is normally punished only by a direct free-kick or penalty kick if the offence occurred inside the penalty area.
"A caution or dismissal is not normally required."

But I'm struggling to think (and maybe this is just my crap memory!) of an instance where handball is given, and the ref HASN'T booked the player. What do people think? Is my perception that refs are harsher than the rules specify, or am I just wrong and do refs often not book players who handle?
And if I'm correct, did this influence the thinking on Adrian's red card; because many Hammers fans actually thought it was a fair sending off! What I mean is: did people think it should've been a red card simply because even dodgy handball calls always seem to be given yellows, so as this seemed "worse" they thought a red was somehow warranted, even though it's certainly not in the rule book?

England collapse!
Aussies on fire in the cricket world cup.england are 76-5!Jeez at least show some fight england-pitiful....