A terrific afternoon for the Hammers but not so good for the wannabees, Citeh and Spuds. Ha Ha! The look of horror on Harry's Jowly Face said it all. He thought that a dodgy penalty, and Keane arrogantly placing the ball IN FRONT of the penalty spot, were going to be enough to get them home. His players thought it was enough. They thought they were going to rocket into 7th place. They thought they were too good for their Chelsea-beating boots. Ha Ha! They should have asked the mighty, mighty Hammers how hard it is to beat Blackburn on their dung heap. Just a couple of yellow cards (which Palacios can't appeal) and Bob's your uncle: McCarthy and Oojier sent them packing with the help of Gomes. Justly. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch! (sorry for laying on the schadenfreude so thick mates, but ... no, wait a minute, NOT sorry).
Similar story at the Emirates. Another team that was supposed to be "going places". A team so good that the Putter-Nutter said, "I'd be crazy to turn down the offer to be part of something so big". A team that cannot score away from home! How much did they pay for Ribena? He has only scored once in 2009 - and that was for Brazil!
On this day, two young Academy products, one just turned twenty the other nineteen, showed anybody who cared to watch (not that Citeh and Spuds think we're worth watching) how it is done: with spirit, with tenacity, with skill, with style, with grace, with FUN.
THANK YOU HAMMERS FOR MAKING MY DAY!!!
Once again West ham have a great result and all they can think about is Spurs. Don't get ahead of yourselves, you have us next week and if we beat you it will be down to only 3 points. How about looking what your team does and no worry about us for a change.
ReplyDeleteAnon, you never gloat when Arsenal lose? See it as a compliment if you like. The thing is, we won thanks to our kids, you lost without a single home grown player in the side. There's the difference in a nutshell. We have given the current game Rio, Anton, Lampard, Carrick, Cole, Johnson, Defoe, Tomkins, Collison and now Stanislas (apologies if I've forgotten anybody) and you have developed...hang on, I'm trying to think. O'Hara. Anybody else? What are you going to do if UEFA push ahead with this rule about playing home grown talent? You will then be well stuffed! So, you might win more than us but you buy your success, we just shape the England team. We won the World Cup remember!
ReplyDelete"We won the World Cup remember!"
ReplyDeleteSir Alf Ramsey played for Tottenham
So WE won the World Cup!
P.S. 0-2 and you are soon in for another thrashing next week you jealous fan of a small club that will never win anything.
No home grown talent in our team yesterday ? Erm..............Ledley King.
ReplyDeleteLets face it, you need to produce home grown talent because your club is skint and you need to sell to survive every year.
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ReplyDeleteCome on guys, I've had to delete two comments because of foul language and racism. You don't win debates by hurling four letter words do you? I didn't pen the article, I've just carried it.
ReplyDeleteGood point about Ledley King, I forgot about him and, like Sol Campbell, he is one of the best English qualified centre backs since the great Bobby Moore (who Tottenham tried to buy!).
The claim that Tottenham won the World Cup because Ramsey played for Spurs is a bit rich! He was on the youth books of Portsmouth and made his League debut for Southampton. He developed his management skills at Ipswich. Of course Ramsey lost us the World Cup in 1970 with his appalling substitutions - that was probably due to his time at Tottenham! (I'm joking!!!!)
The "skint" jibe really doesn't hurt at all. I'd rather support a smaller club that develops rather than buys players personally. Look at Chelsea and City, they are destroying the game. All credit to Wenger and Arsenal for taking a different route! Of course, Tottenham's idea of a "Youth Policy" is to go out and buy kids from other clubs. Sadly, all too many of these players then fail to "train on" unless they move to other clubs.
Richards, onouha, wright-Phillips and sturridge all took part In yesterdays game for city, we give youth a chance more than most. It was also well reported that robinho had a place on the bench until Ireland picked up a knock. How are we destroying football? That's just a jealousy dig. Also, we play arsenal away, you play Sunderland at home. Difference in talent there son. I like west ham, they are a model club on how things should be done but silly blogs like this article take the gloss off your usually ok fans.
ReplyDeletei completely understand why you enjoy it - both us and citeh have thrown millions of pounds out on players to no avail. only thing i completely disagree with here is you saying that blackburn won justly, you must have been watching a different match. we comfortably outclassed them until there was an UNjust sending off. we subsequently panicked and before we knew it, we were 2-1 down. fat sam's tactics of hoof and hope win again. of course it's our fault though, we had the possession and the chances and just failed to find that 2nd goal. i blame harry for sitting on his hands and trying to hold the 1-0, which he does all too often, rather than bring on THudd or Pav and shaking things up a little.
ReplyDeletebelieve it or not, i like the fact that west ham are leading the pack for that last european spot rather than wigan or fulham or one of the many boring 'physical' teams in our league. but next week is a massive game, and if we win, which we damn well should and probably will on our own turf (only lost once their since the redknapp 'revolution'), we're within touching distance, with 3 very winnable home games to go (barcodes, west brom and citeh). then the 3 away games are a bit more daunting - united, everton, liverpool - but bare in mind that our record against the big 4 this season is won 2, drawn 4, add to that our wembley performance and smashing of liverpool in the run up to it, and you'd be a fool to say we're not going to get anything out of those games. cannot wait to get down to the lane on saturday. COYS!
oh and just to add, if this homegrown rule comes in, we do have the players to make up the team (although can someone remind me what exactly classifies a player as homegrown?).
ReplyDeleteKing, & O'Hara. then we have obika, townsend and mason coming through. add to that bostock and parrett (if they count) and by the time this rule does or doesn't come in, we will be absolutely fine.
THIS STATMENT IS TRUE BECAUSE I DISCOVERED OUR LEAGUE IS FASTER AND FULL OF LETS SAY ENERGY THATS NOT NORMAL AND TEAMS ARE PLAYING WAY ABOVE THERE LEAGUE POSITIONS WITH PLAYERS COSTING NOTHING IN QUALITY TERMS AND SPURS GETTING BEAT BY A MASSIVE SAMBA AND A WALKING INJURY DUNN DOESENT SUPRISE ME I COULD HAVE WATCHED THIS GAME ON TV BUT I WENT ON THE FEILD AND HIT SOME GOLF BALLS BECAUSE I NEW THE SCRIPT EVRY TIME WE PLAY A TEAM IN THE BOTTEM 3 IT ENERGY LEVELS WAY ABOVE THERE NORMAL PLAYERS LOOKING LIKE ANOREXIC ANDREWS FOR ONE OOJER AND THE REST FULHAM LIVERPOOL AND LATE GOALS ARE ANOTHER TELL TALE SINE OF ENERGY ABUSE (EPHEDRINE )
ReplyDeleteFair points EY, but if your kids are worth a place, why do you shell out all that money?
ReplyDeleteI didn't write the article and do not buy in to all the anti Spurs stuff myself. I fact I was chucked off a West Ham forum for objecting to the racism of some of our fans and for refusing to damn all things Tottenham. You play the game the right way so I can't dislike you as a club. I just wish you would stop buying our players! Hopefully the refusal to sell Period Pains to you has signalled a new policy at West Ham.
To the City fan, how many home grown players will break through from now on? You are destroying the game by paying silly money for ordinary players. The game will implode if this continues.
David - wtf? Are you on whatever you're accusing 'Bottem 3' teams of taking...?
ReplyDeleteIn fairness Tottenham wreck players, Example Dos Santos,That poor fella scored a hat trick for Barca on his last match went to Toiletham and got flushed down too Ipswitch Town. When Berba and Keane were paired up front Defoes career was being ruined.Tom Huddlestone, another great example of a player Tottenham ruined.
ReplyDeleteTottenham have some great players on paper that they threw a ridiculous amount of money at. However, but they dont seen to gel very well, have an extreme lack of conisitancy when they do and a great deal of their players are made of glass ( King , Woodgate), this results in 2 point from eight games. Tottenhams solution: Throw more stupid money at players!!!
Defoe+Bent+Pavyochenko+Keane = ~56.5m!!! That amount is a joke and thats just taking their forwards into account! Even Harry 5m compensation to pompey!
You could buy leeds United(~8m Bates Paid)nearly eight times times over for that money! All clubs like spurs and man city do is attract mercenary players (Belllamy,Defoe, Bentley) who dont care about the club and collect huge money every week. Result: Both teams in the bottem half of the table and their fans hugely disappointed,but still carry faith becouse their mercenary players still look good on paper. We Hammers know what its like becouse last season we went through the same thing with our expensive flops. (Ljungberg, Faubert, Bellamy, Dyer and even our latest hero Parker)In my mind I thought we were great, even we werent producing many great results.(including our three four Nil defeats in a row)It was all in my head.
Now to be very honest I am delighted the Hammers dont have such silly money anymore. It seems to work in a teams favour to effectively use all the resourses available to you instead of a "spend spend spent" solution to a problem, examples: Arsenal, Everton, Villa even Wigan and Fulham this season.These are all teams I have great respect for.
And a part of me worries that West Hams new owners could have silly money and we get lowered to their level again. I dont want anymore Ljungbergs or Bellamys at my club. I want exciting new young up and coming talent.I have to say this season the west ham hierarchy are pushing all the right buttons for me in terms of progressing the club and I would be very happy if they somehow solved their financial problems and stuck with the club and their "Project Football" plan which definately seems to be working.
I for one lately am one happy Hammer.
Yes you have given the game many good players but "given" is the key word. You have sold most of them. Isn't it a bit annoying to think of the side you could of had if you had kept them? I'm quite comfortable with this new law if it comes in. We fielded 5 English players yesterday which is what I think it will come down to. Personally I think the foriegn players are good for the game, it's getting the balance that's important. Unsurprisingly Arsenal really annoy me in this respect. Let me ask you this. Who almost singlehandedly kept you up a couple of years ago? Carlos Teves so don't become all high and mighty about home grown players. Yes it's a good thing to have but not the only one.
ReplyDeleteColm, like you I don't want to see us spending silly money again should we be bought.
ReplyDeleteBrad, I'd like to see us keeping our home grown from now on. Perhaps Zola and Clarke can build an Empire out of the Academy - with clever signings thanks to Nani. If all fit, our present squad is pretty exciting. Add in three quality additions for a total outlay of about £20m and we could be a force next season.
I think with just the edition of a decent striker with a natural eye for goal who can play off cole we will the a the force you speak of Hammersfan.
ReplyDeleteI still fancy a new right back with genuine pace and a replacement left back as well as a goal scoring striker. Remember the squad with shrink when Kovac, Di Michele and Tristan move on, unless we buy them. I would only keep Kovac personally.
ReplyDeletei don't know why we keep shelling out! if i had it my way, this so called left-wing problem we have would be solved by giving some of the many young left wingers we have a chance - dos santos, taarabt, bale, o'hara, townsend, rose. but instead we know the tottenham way, and harry isn't changing that at all. we will spend double figures on stewart downing (if he'll even come to a club that might not be in europe??) and i'm sure harry will ignore hutton and gunter and probably go for glen johnson too, so he can continue the love in. makes no sense to me though, corluka is better than johnson even if he's supposedly a centre back.
ReplyDeleteis di michele still not liked down your way? i thought he was starting to make a difference. what about this savio fella? he seems like a bit of a flop, although it's early days. i watched the match against west brom and he looked well out of his depth. same thing happened with both taarabt and dos santos when they came over, hence why they're off on loan now.
Ok Perhaps a new right back even though Neill has been good lately hes playing for a contract and isnt getting any younger. However I dont agree about our left back situation, Ilunga has been great this season and we have Joe Widdowson behind him in the ranks, to me at least widdowson has proven to be solid and showed good potential during preseason, therefore I think thatposition is well covered.
ReplyDeleteI agree we meed another striker although I'm still curious about Zavon Hines who also had a great pre-season and scored on his debut in the league cup until his injury.
screw you all u sum bags spurs deserved to win ! ! ! and would be in a better league position if we started the season under redknapper he knows he has a chance to manage a really team for once with ambition instead of you pathetic culb !
ReplyDeleteA well-deserved win for Rovers given Spurs' spectacular casual attitude. Even without the ref so blatantly on their side (ususal 'big' club bias) they should have seen out a game against Rovers' reserves. How stupid is Palacios to make a challenge like that just two minutes ater having been booked. ( He could and should have been booked earlier for leaning into Mokoena's shoulder and rolling about like he had been pole-axed ). In true Harry fashion he had to find someone to balme but himself - his move-on is already overdue and I can see Sven wasting Spurs' money in the near future - a match made in Heaven!
ReplyDeleteoh my dear lord, anonymous above me has to be the most blind, ignorant football-watcher on the internet. what an abolsute pillock.
ReplyDeleteEY, the Jury is out on di Michele, literally if you believe what's in La Republicca about him being cited over illegal betting. Not sure if it is true. He is very patchy: looks like a World Beater one week, then like a stiff the next.
ReplyDeleteI can't see 'Arry moving aside fr Sven. The Ulrika Moment is more likely to end up at Sunderland I wold have thought.
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/data/data.html
ReplyDeleteA pitiful return for the fifth highest net spending since the inception of the Premiership. Tottenham are basically the Newcastle of the south. A laughing stock.
Looking at West Hams run in, Villa Away, Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton Away, you could be made to look an stupid for this coloumn.
ReplyDeleteSpurs are the wannabees, The only acheiviement West Ham have in last few years is finishing above spurs last season.
And although spurs spent £70m in the summer, we made £90m on player sales, so really we didn't spend a penny of our own money.
where as West ham might not spend big because players worth anything will not really want to play for West Ham (even Darren Bent!!)but you pay average players like Lucas Niell £70,000 a week to play for you, and your not in europe. So how can you moan about spurs spending a lot of money on player transfer fees but don't pay stupid wages when you pay wages that most teams in the Champions league don't pay their players?
All fair enough Aninymous, but how much have you spent since you did your balancing sums? What is your net outlay now?
ReplyDeleteWe do have a difficult run in and have been devastated by injuries. But where-ever we finish, this has been a great season for us because we have shed Curbishley and brought in an exciting management team. Europe is irrelevant in my book. Next season, with the addition of a couple of players and a modicum of luck with injuries, we will have a squad capable of pushing the big boys. Watch!