'Sir' Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore, the greatest defender of all time, was born this day in 1941. Sadly England's World Cup winning captain succumbed to cancer, and despite battling bravely, died on the 24th of February 1993.
In recent years a new breed of successful football players have become much younger, and the stars we see can only get better with age. Just imagine: Erling Haaland is just 20, Killian Mbappe is 22, so their potential peak is in the future. And there are so many examples of leaders in PL teams below 23 years old, like Bukayo Saka (19, Arsenal), Phil Foden (20, Manchester City) or Mason Mount (22, Chelsea), that you should be ready to support talents from the very young age.
The end of Hammers 3-2 win over Leicester City was like the Alamo, again!what is it with West Ham? Are the club secretly trying to kill off a large amount of fans with suspect hearts? There can be no other explanation as to why a hugely over achieving team can go in to matches devoid of their best players, and then race to a three goals a game advantage and then have to battle through the rest of the game to survive!
West Ham: Fabiański, Coufal, Diop, Dawson, Cresswell, Masuaku, Noble (c), Souček, Fornals, Bowen, Lingard Subs: Martin (GK), Trott (GK), Fredericks, Johnson, Balbuena, Alves, Coventry, Benrahma, Odubeko
Leicester: Schmeichel (c), Pereira, Amartey, Evans, Fofana, Castagne, Praet, Tielemans, Ndidi, Vardy, Iheanacho Subs: Ward (GK), Mendy, Albrighton, Fuchs, Thomas, Daley-Campbell, Leshabela, Tavares, Suengchitth
David Moyes made over 550 league appearances in his career as a player before becoming coach at Preston, since then he has managed over 575 Premier League Games, pushing him towards an incredible 1000 games in his managerial career, the figure currently stands at 974!
Jarrod Bowen has escaped major sanction, but has been warned by the Football Association over a tweet from 2012 that contained a racist term. The 24-year-old will also complete an FA education course for the tweet, which he made when he was 15. Bowen apologised for the content of the post earlier in April, describing it as "offensive and immature".
Not individuality but the whole team and teamwork keeps us up and alive ⚒ #team #crew #coyi
Ne individuality ale celý tým a týmová práce nás drží nahoře a naživu ⚒ pic.twitter.com/5XaWbtHSQv
Becoming a 'global brand' was one of the reasons behind the club's contensious move from the beloved Boleyn Ground to the vast wide expanses of the 'unfit' for football, as yet unnamed London Stadium. Well, the club has an awful long way to go, but it has to start sometime, beyond the competition lies the golden chalice of 'proper recognition', the last time the club received it was in 1966 having provided the back bone of England's only World Cup winning team.
For some reason, injuries in football tend to occur in multiples for teams, and West Ham United are a prime example. Having had to deal with the 'continued loss' of Michail Antonio due to his extremely temperamental hamstrings, the club had been coping relatively well, but injuries to Angelo Ogbonna, Authur Masuaku, Pablo Fornals and finally Declan Rice have served to illustrate exactly how paper thin David Moyes's squad really is.
There appears to be an under swell of fetid comments regarding West Ham United's 'bromance' with Jesse Lingard, his arrival at the unnamed London Stadium, let's call it the Teslar Stadium and pretend the club's sponsors are electric rather than eclectic, has been nothing short of 'Payetesque'.