Paul Ince of all players has labelled Woy Hogdsons continued omission of Mark noble from the England Squad as "An absolute joke".
Following yet another passion fuelled, energetic, in your face performance from the Captain the the defeat of Spurs, the clamour for including Mark in the squad for Euro 16 is getting louder with every passing game.
Now no one more than Mark splits opinion on the Org and those debates are well documented throughout, however, from a personal POV his omission would probably see the final nail in the coffin for me watching England in major tournaments.

I gave up many years ago watching England friendlies and qualifiers. The continued baffling decisions by a succession of overpaid numpty's to include players not fit to lace the boots of past and many present quality players did it for me.
But the continued failure of England in major competitions, no more so than our woeful performance in the last WC really is sucking the last of the passion out of International football for me. The ridiculous, continued comments by the press and players that they could actually win one of these is nothing short of hilarious given our almost guaranteed failings. Yet the manager and previous managers continued with the same players game after game, qualification campaign after qualification campaign, tournament after tournament almost defied logic.

With the Euro's just around the corner and after a Premier League campaign that has had me jumping out of bed in the early hours more than most in recent years, I was actually looking at the Euro summer as the perfect opportunity to catch up on some sleep. The clash with Wales is probably the only game that may have me waking in the early hours, UNLESS, one of our own is finally included. And he's earned a shot I feel. I can't think of too many English midfielder's who drive on their teams more than Mark. Sure he's got his shortcomings but sometimes the difference between winning and losing is passion.
It's time for Roy to wake up and smell the coffee on this one and if he doesn't well, I'll be sleeping like a baby and not worrying how Engerrrland will be going.

Toff turds v west ham saturday 3 pm Satanta

Just got in from work and flicking through the channels, caught part of an interview by Slav on Barclays Premier League World on Sky. The programme is being repeated later tonight at 11.15pm, Sky Sports 1. He continues to impress with his candid honesty and I hope he gets the backing from SUGO to continue to improve us and we become a major force to be reckoned with.

Well well well!! I knew the site was back up but for some reason I have not been able to log in. Turns out I'd used an old mail adress. Genuinely interested to hear how the sites doing and if any of the old faces are about. I've missed the site loads and even contemplated joining kumb but am very happy to be back, especially after last night!!

We really are a bunch bar stewards aren't we! Ha ha.

Imagine the scene, spuds coming to our place on a decent run thinking they are unbeatable. "We will go top here tonight lads, bring it on champions" thrashed in the first game no worries. Deluded supporters saying their "firms" are gona take us. The statue is at threat, people's lives are and so is the old girl we sit in every week. Nobody at West Ham took this serious, but spuds fans the council and police did.
Council boarded up bobbys eyes, police arrived in force on horses, helicopters over heard! The team arrived and they swaggered in like it was a formality.
But they were ambushed like a nerd at a frat party! We got into them early pulled their pants down slapped their arse and tied them to a lamp post for the night!

In return the media, fans and manager have been desperately looking for straws to clutch at. We all heard of lasagne gate and boy have we laughed for years at that ,this time Spurs have improved by giving us more excuses than we can handle! The pitch was poor and they struggled with our direct style says the ponch. A couple of injuries say motd dembele and alli. Tiredness say their supporters! Kane's form is hampered by his mask.

Oh please yawn give us a break, maybe even some credit. Firstly the pitch yes it's poor but it shouldn't be beneficial to us either and of course we have all seen worse! Injuries? We they had no dembele but Ali was on the bench and they have largely escaped injuries all season plus we had Reid, Valencia, byram, Tonka, obrian, Moses, out and sakho not match fit in this game alone. Tiredness? Well I'm sure they have played a lot of games but our season started in July! They have had options to rotate due to lack of injuries whereas we don't really know our best 11 as we have never had a full squad! As for that mask well Costa does ok in his, plus if he is struggling play another option. It makes him look better anyway.

We really are a bunch of bar stewards aren't we

Did anyone see the whole game last night? Be it at the game or a stream. Both emenike and obiang have been mentioned on other forums as having great games with the latter nominated as motm. So what's the general opinion on here to their performances?

i think he's fast becoming the key component in our side alongside payet. must say when i first saw him thought there was a lot of work to be done here and the fee paid was pretty high. looking at how he has adapted to the prem league now i can say that we need to hang onto him for as long as possible. he's different to most players, he has great physical strength and energy. he gets up and down the pitch endlessly, always throwing himself onto the end of chances in the box, is great in the air…in short the mans a beast on the field. whoever scouted this man out did a great job, and well done to the club for bringing him in. teams can't handle him.

1-0 but let's be honest it was the last time we will play them Spudulikes at the Boleyn and we just wanted the win.
What a wonderful time to be a Hammers fan God bless West Ham and all who sail in and with her/him? who cares great night, COYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS.

PS I love Bilic, and Antonio is one helluva find.

like many I have a natural dislike for that club and its fans always harping on about how big they are etc etc if you have to brag about something then plainly its not true....and after this mornings love in on spudsport enough is enough...I want us to rip into them destroy them as DITM says....completely ruin there title challenge nothing would be sweeter then we can hear them bleat on the radio......horrible horrible club better the gooners or citeh if Leicester don't but levy and his mob pffff lets make there last memory of upton park yet another nightmare....lasagne anyone:-)

What do you think the chances are of picking up a ticket on the gates for tonights game?