If West ham aren’t careful they will be tip-toeing their way to the Championship. Maybe Curbs saw the looming credit crunch coming that has knocked the Hammers for six, and did a runner. We should have seen it coming. The squad was “trimmed” in the close season in an attempt to cut costs. West Ham are owned by an Icelandic banking consortium which have gone as bust as “XL” the club sponsor. continue reading

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getting to the sharp end of the season, really exciting is n’t it? Do we play Carlton Cole as a lone striker or Carlton Cole as a lone striker? it’s mind numbingly dull at the moment being a west ham fan. bring back the brinksmanship of last year, a non goal here, a unreistered player there. beating manu and arsenal home and away. great times. Are the injuries just becoming an excuse? Maybe Curbs needs some new ideas and be a little bit more adventurous at home. roll on next year.

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Is it me but I find the international breaks a little bit of a distraction from the real business of league football. I miss my (bi) weekly fix of the mood altering drug that is being a West Ham United fan. The highs and lows produced on the whim of the fates is only good enough until the next time. continue reading

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Being a team that perennially need to sell their big name players due to our regular dalliances with relegation, I have compiled a list of ex- Hammers and my attitude towards them. Normally these opinions are formed by the terms they left the club, with honour, putting club on a par with their own interests or slinking away in a vile self-serving cowardly manner. continue reading

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What must it be like to the the fans boo-boy? You can do no right in the eyes of the hard core. Having a good match is seen as an aberration rather than an improvement. Perhaps being the scapegoat is just the embodiment of the frustrations and dashed hopes of the fans, whose expectations have been raised? Maybe, but Carlton Cole is still rubbish.

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Green for England call up. The campaign starts here.

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Finally was able to make my debut at Upton Park this season for the match yesterday against Middlesbrough. I chose to be “embedded” amongst the away fans and learnt many interesting sociolgical facts about Geordies in general and Alan Shearer in particular.

Being sat near the West Ham fans, one particularly obese gentleman dressed in claret and blue was asked plaintifly whether in fact it was he who ate all the pies. continue reading

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West Ham United, vintage 2007.

New money, new owner, new West Ham squad that doesnt yet feel like a good fit. It seems the hand-me-downs look like they were bought for someone else. The squad looks uncomfortable and a bit scratchy the only constant in a changing world is Curbs. But will he know what to do with such a disperate bunch? I hope he can or he’s at risk of taking the helm of a bunch of over paid merceneries. We will wait and see if they can be melded into a footballing unit that can deilght as well as win?!

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Looks like we are certain for relegation, even before the Spurs match. Still hard to see why we have had such a bad season. Suffering from the “deficlt ” second season syndrome it seems. I think last year our batch of average players over achieved and this year the opposite has been the case. I think it’s continue reading

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I happened to be cycling past Upton Park yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the Liverpool game. The buzz was already building , the souvenir shops were set up and the burger bars had already overcooked the onions. It’s at moments like these that all seems well in the world. The approaching storm clouds forgotten and we remember why we love this game. No matter what happens.

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Playing well, scoring goals but having decisive decisions going against us resulting in draws instead of wins and cries of “unlucky” or the kiss of death ” too good to go down”all point to the fact that West Ham are toying with a quick return to the championship. The fact that continue reading

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The roller coaster ride of being a West ham fan provides a good grounding for life. I learned from an early age that winning doesn’t come automatically, you work hard just to maintain an even keel, become stoical through the rare highs and frequent lows. Even when we beat Man U this week, a win that allowed us just to keep in touch with fourth bottom Middlesboro! barely registered as a flicker. The ghost of Kenny Brown past was visiting Fergie and the Man U defence so scrooge like became generous to a fault.Who knows, West Ham may now be able to throw away their Tiny Tim crutch and fulfill their potential.
Merry Christmas Fergie, Merry Christmas one and all!

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Now we have champions league qualification assured following our take over this week, I’m worried. It’ll mean I’ll have to go to the pub more often, increasing my alcohol intake and expenditure. I’ll have to watch all the matches on tele, time that i could be using more profitably. I’ll get worried when about whether we reach the knock out phase or not, increasing my stress levels and turning my hair grey.
Already I’m feeling nostalgic for the good old days, when we yo yod between divisions, only made cup finals once in a generation and were best known for winning the ‘66 world cup final. We were everyones favourite second team, played attractive, attacking foootball. Soon we’ll be hated/envied all through the land. Every kid aged 7 and under will be hammers fans and the “northern irons” fan clubs will stop me from turning up at 2:50 and being certain of getting a seat to the game. All we need now is an air crash to decimate our first team squad for our transformation to be complete.

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when Pards claims our 1-0 defeat to Chelsea was one of the best performances of the season when we didn’t have a shot on target all match and are one point above the relegation zone. Looks like the Icelandic consortium have had their bid accepted to take over the club. Watch this space, we can only hope.

Read the BBC story on the takeover at West Ham here

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we need ashton back pronto - would be nice to score a brace now and again (today)

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