Musings
Stoke a disgrace. Mike Jones awful. FA worse.
First of all, apologies for not writing as regularly as usual. I’ve been working on a new project which you can find at BoleynGround.com. It’s shaping up to be a historical photo archive of the Boleyn Ground and Upton Park, so if you’re sitting on any photos you’re particularly proud of, whatever era, please do [...]
Are Walcott and Diouf really of the same human race?
“Are Walcott and Diouf really of the same human race?” It’s a good question. No really it is. The question refers to the weekend that Walcott confessed to diving in Arsenal’s FA Cup tie against Leeds – the confession came with an apology and remorse. It is the same weekend that Diouf stood over Jamie [...]
Sullivan & Gold. Cowards.
All was going to plan in the Sullivan & Gold offices at Upton Park. Slowly but surely turning the screw, increasingly making Avram Grant’s position as manager untenable. Avram himself wasn’t helping with results, it must be added. “O’NEIL TO BECOME THE NEW MANAGER OF WEST HAM”, we hear immediately prior to Grant taking charge [...]
Big Sam would be good fit at West Ham
The managerial merry-go-round may have seized up in the opening half of the season but after two sackings in a week I get the impression it may spring into life once more. With the crucial Christmas Livescores to come in and then the January transfer window approaching club chairman are getting restless. If their club’s [...]
New blow for Hammers
Any fan would admit that, despite a Carling Cup thrashing of Manchester United that saw them reach the semi-finals of the competition, West Ham have struggled this season. However, perhaps their biggest problem at the moment is an element of delusion in some quarters. Avram Grant appears to be the main culprit in this respect [...]
Wally Downes’ a Hammer, he wears a West Ham hat!
On one hand I’m absolutely speechless. On the other, there is so much to talk about. Spector, Cole, Tomkins, Obinna, Upson, Green……where do you stop with talking about player performances? Kovac maybe – not at all, he put in a very good shift last night. But I want to start with one man. Wally Downes. [...]
More life in a tramp’s vest
I’m not going to waste my time writing about one of the most disgusting performances of the last decade. And I’m not going to waste your time asking you to read it. The players and the manager do not deserve our time. Instead, I’ll leave you to enjoy this song – written for Avram For [...]
An utterly dismal future?
It brings me absolutely no joy criticising West Ham. I take no pleasure in it in the slightest. On the terraces I always look for a positive, I always want to sing and to support – seriously pointing a critical finger is usually the last place I turn. When I’m let with no other option. [...]
Grant’s optimism won’t die
Avram Grant insists that this West Ham side will climb out of the Premier League relegation places, but what has to be worrying for Hammers fans is the fact he seems make this claim after every single game. The side are rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table and have not win in [...]
Hammers to be hit hard by Noble’s absence?
Defeated by a last-gasp goal at the Emirates in a clash that and rooted at the foot of the Premier League table with just six points from ten games, the last thing West Ham needed was another piece of bad news. Unfortunately for the Hammers, that’s exactly what they received this week when it emerged [...]
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