Seeing on SSN this afternoon Bolton and Bury have been given until 5pm today to prove there financial viability and if not they could well have there opening day fixtures and others suspended....with the Multi Millions of pounds in the Premier league do you really care about what is going on in the lower divisions...When you go back to the dark days when our club was in serious financial trouble and close to going to the wall its a case of there but for the grace of god go i.....when the seasons on i always make a point of recording the highlights of the football league and enjoy watching the national league on BT as well but when you see so many clubs struggling you must wonder how long can it keep going in its present format...so would it bother you if the football league started to lose clubs or is it just the inevitable side affect of the Premier League being the be all and end all for the money men.

£1million a week yup just read that whilst you have your cornflakes this morning and don't spit them everywhere but an scrabble winning score of a name for a football club(china of course)is apparently happy to offer Bale that amount to attract him to play in china....Bale being treated terribly by Madrid and Zidane IMO should take it..he's won the champions league he's won the spanish league liverpool/citeh will not want him spuds prob could not afford his wages manure a busted flush so he will not win the prem wales will never win the world cup so if that kind of money is being offered i think his family could put up with that for a couple of years....but £1million a week the world has gone crazy...you can hear Ronaldos agents on the old abacus right now totting up how much he could earn!

I think we have to say well done. Formal and haller are quality players. They have spent big again so well done

Well I think it used to be me before I ran off to me caravan in the new forest. But I have to say I think Carlos Sanchez has stolen the crown. I've never seen a worse player pull on a hammers shirt in the 49 years I've been a supporter. Including Allan McKnight.

So who is the worst Hammer ever??

latest news is we are seriously considering this but the guy says he wants to stay in Italy? another Gomez deal then? that aside, would he be a good signing, didn't pull any trees at Chelsea. my view is, he's a good player and probably one Pellegrini knows a lot about and if given good service could do well.

52 years young as of yesterday and i still rmbr being behind the goal when he buried a rebound i think past Schmeichel and a memorable 1-0 win that cost manure the title to Leeds Fergies quote that it was obscene lingers long in the old memory bank...still got the picture of Kenny striking that ball from the Daily Mirror back page ahh good days of course we were relegated a few days later but hey thats West Ham for you and sticking it to Fergie was always a god thing..happy belated birthday Kenny.

Just been reported....next please

Bryan(pop)Robson...David Cross...Paul Goddard...Frank McAvennie...Tony Cottee...Dean Ashton...Freddie Kanoute....just naming a few here who most West ham fans will have fond memories of along with the many nightmares such players as Frédéric Piquionne... Jonathan Calleri...Modibo Maïga...Nikica Jelavić...Marouane Chamakh...Benni McCarthy...Mido.
Just reading those names sends you into a cold sweat...but for me having seen all these players play and the T.C. Mcavennie double act that was without doubt the best strike force we have ever had in my lifetime i have to say Dean Ashton is my Favourite striker and the big What if comes about following that career ending injury on England duty...for a big fella he could score all kinds of goals and if he had kept playing and scoring as i don't doubt he would of then in true west ham traditions we would of promptly sold him and for peanuts to!...so who is your favourite striker? does not have to be any listed above could be any striker thats played for us the only condition here is you have to of seen them play.

£29million for Gomez Valencia bid the same and also accepted...£13million for Jordan....Wow looks like we are really going for it again this summer.

We all now about it and we all hold our breath when we hear a player has suffered a "slight" knock in training as we know that means a minimum 6 weeks and with rehab make it 9 weeks before the player returns...so as much as i hate to mention it how long before Pablo falls victim to our curse?