When I say sponsoring, we’re basically picking up the bar tab – each of the meetups coincides with a decent game of football, so it will be an afternoon/evening of football, beer and general banter.

There are more details on this post here: Football Blogger Meetups

Bloggers of Birmingham City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Brom, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Manchester City, Walsall, Stockport (etc etc) we’ll be in your neck of the woods first so have yourself a butchers are the details page linked above and get yourself over for some beer.

I’ll be at all the events – and most certainly the ones in New York, Washington DC and Madrid – so if you’re based anywhere near any of those then it would be great to catch up for a pint.

Football Blogger Meetups with FootballUnited.com

This is the thing however. It has been reported today that Olivier Kapo is to be made available from Birmingham for a fee of around £3m. With Zamora being valued at roughly the same, would it be a shrewd piece of business by Curbs to try and offer Zamora as a make weight in an attempt to bring Kapo to Upton Park?

I’m not saying this is what I want, seeing that I reckon that Kapo could very well be a player who thinks in his own mind that he should be playing Champions League football each week, and would only consider a club like West Ham as an opportunity to keep himself in the shop window.

If that is the sort of player we are going to be signing then I’m not sure we would be doing anything proative in losing Bobby as part of the deal.

Technically however, he is a gifted player and has played across the continent for teams including Juventus and Monaco. I’m very much on the fence with this one.

Actually, no I’m not. I’ve just made my decision. I would like to keep Zamora purely for his love for our club. Because I think that is a core value that should be instilled in our entire squad if we are to perform at our best.

I think.

Sam