Can’t help but contain my excitement about the call ups of three West Ham players to the England squad for the upcoming friendly against Spain. OK, it’s only a friendly and I suppose when you look at it they may not all get a start…but…there are no Spurs players in the squad. Neither are there any Arsenal or Liverpool and there are only two United and three Chelsea. All things considered, there are 9 ex and current West Ham players who have been named (if my memory serves me correctly, Terry played as a youth player with us).

I’m not going to go on about it, but what a sign of how Zola and Clarke have change things around for us…after all, each one of those players was under the management of Curbishley too.

Anyways, here’s the team news for today’s much anticipated game against United:

West Ham:

Once again, we have no knew injury concers to worry about. Dyer, Ashton and Gabbidon all remain sidelined.

Kovac is available for selection if necessary, although I can’t see Zola wanting to change our midfield from the start.

Man U:

Gary Neville is out with a cold, but unfortunately Rooney, Evra and Brown are all back in contention

I personally think that we are perfectly capable of winning this game, although I’m not necessarily sure that we will. We are unbeaten in 6 League games and as everyone knows, United are not only unbeaten in 12, but have also failed to concede along the way.

It’s going to be a tough game (as is to be expected) but I think the confidence and resilliance that we are playing with will see us through.

Prediction: It seems too peculiar to predict us to beat United, so I think I’m going to have to settle for a 1-1 Draw.

Live Streams:

As I will be resuming my usual postition this weekend in the Centenary Lower, I won’t unfortunately be able to gurantee a live stream on my streaming page. What I will be posting is a list of all the best places to catch the game online, and the chat room will naturally still be open.

There’s been some quality banter going down in that little chat box these last few weeks, so if are going to be watching the game online why don’t you keep one window with the chat box open for some regulation Hammers based banter. IRONS!

Live West Ham v Manchester United Streams and Chat Room here

COYI!

Sam