West Ham : Adrian, Jenkinson, Collins, Tomkins, Ogbonna, Song, Kouyate, Antonio, Noble, Zarate, Valencia. Subs: Randolph, Carroll, Obiang, Lanzini, Hendrie, Oxford, Cullen.
Southampton: Stekelenburg, Martina, Fonte, van Dijk, Bertrand, Wanyama, Romeu, Tadic, Mane, Steven Davis, Long. Subs: Yoshida, Clasie, Ward-Prowse, Juanmi, Ramirez, Gazzaniga, Caulker.
Big 'un and small 'un make the bench! - Ed

The vagaries of the Internet frame work and back bone never cease to amaze, and as such it should not be surprising that some spaced out hippy in server land decided to upgrade the sever on boxing day! Anyway, we are back and with extra sever space and speed now! Apparently they are going to name the sever AC due to it's amount of down time! - Ed Roll on the Saints

Matt Jarvis, currently injured, cost West Ham United the same in transfer fees as Dimitri Payet! And yet he is joining Norwich City for an undisclosed fee that is apparently around £2.5 Million, representing a loss of £8 Million . Jarvis was signed by Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce, as was Andy Carroll for £17 Million, a certain Mr Curtis was involved in both transfers that saw Hammers parting with a combined transfer output of over £25 Million and a combined wages bill of over £130,000 per week!

Thursday 24 December 2015

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Swansea: Fabianski, Rangel, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Cork, Ki, Sigurdsson, Ayew, Gomis.
Subs: Nordfeldt, Naughton, Amat, Shelvey, Barrow, Montero, Emnes.
West Ham: Adrian, Tomkins, Collins, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Noble, Song, Antonio, Kouyate, Zarate, Jelavic
Subs: Randolph, Jenkinson, Oxford, Cullen, Hendrie, Obiang, Valencia.

Well, it had to happen didn't it? While all others were dropping like flies around him, West Ham United's most expensive signing Andy Carroll seemed to thrive and NOT get injured, as he had previously done throughout his Hammer's career. However the striker who had recently been 'bigging up' his claim for a place in the England squad whilst at the same time 'trolling' Chelsea's now ousted manager Jose Mourinho, has succumbed to a slight niggle.

Informed rumour has it that Sam Allardyce's Sunderland are contemplating a massive £8.5 Million bid for West Ham defender James Tomkins when the January transfer window opens.

Ex - Hammers manager Sam Allardyce, now holding the reigns at Sunderland, has earmarked James Collins as a main signing when the January transfer window opens. Collins' contract expires at the end of the season , and as such West Ham might possibly recoup £2.5 Million at the absolute max in exchange for his services and think that it might be a good bit of business, in the short term!

Manuel Lanzini’s parent club Al Jazira have recruited former West Ham technical director Gianluca Nani as their new sports director, which could be a can of worms! There is plenty of bad blood between Nani and co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan, Nani was dismissed from his highly paid role at the club in a cloud of secrecy. Almost all of the deals that Nani oversaw were reversed as soon as possible when the two Davids took over, one or two of the deals were extremely suspicious to say the least!

West Ham: Adrian, Tomkins, Ogbonna, Collins, Cresswell, Song, Zarate, Noble, Kouyate, Antonio, Carroll
Subs: Randolph,Valencia, Jenkinson, Obiang, Jelavic, Oxford, Cullen.
Stoke: Butland, Johnson, Shawcross, Wollscheid, Pieters, Whelan, Cameron, Afellay, van Ginkel, Arnautovic, Bojan
Subs: Bardsley, Joselu, Wilson, Adam, Diouf, Walters, Haugaard