We already have two tier officiating, so what is the point of two tier VAR??Dean, Oliver, Marriner & Moss is a great name for a firm of Solicitors! You CAN'T have one FA Cup quarter final with VAR and another without. Can someone explain to me why Martin Atkinson's sending off of the Man Utd player was a clear mistake??? We ended up having to wait for ages for someone else's opinion to overturn someone else's opinion. No difference there then...as was the outcome. Manchester City got away with murder because of totally incompetent officiating. Why do all the vital decisions go the way of the BIG clubs??? When will an official be punished FINANCIALLY for obvious mistakes??? I'm almost 59...so probably not in my lifetime!

After watching the match v Cardiff it got me wondering on two points Hernandez (stupid) trying to con a penalty yet Silva for Man City won a pen v us for the exact same type of (non)challenge.
But my main point is this and the offside rule ... so how come a player in an offside position yet "not interfering with play" where the officials allow a goal to count yet a player not directly involved in play of a side defending can play a goalscorer "onside" (Fredericks a good 20 feet away from the action)?
As the rules stand Niasse' goal counts of course and I except that and many teams have suffered the same fate (though some have got away with it).

It was a fantastic occasion to be at the LS on Saturday to see a very emotional Billy Bonds officially open the main stand in his name, very worthy recipient of this honour I think we all agree.

This leaves the final stand to be named or rather, renamed. If so, who should get the final honour?

Now I know it will provoke a number of you wags with suggestions with the likes of Joey Beauchamp, Boogers, Alan McKnight etc etc. But honestly who should get the honour or what should be honoured?

Some thoughts are The Boleyn Stand, The 66 Stand, Greenwood Lyle, Noble etc etc but for me its plain Sir Geoff Hurst, second all time leading goal scorer and hat trick in a World Cup final.

Nev, would make a good opinion pole?

At last a stand named after my favourite ever westham player...good on the board for at last acknowledging what this great man means to us fans!!Billy Bonds claret & blue army

After seeing yesterdays farcical situation when chelskis GK refused too be subbed and the manager exploding with rage you have to ask has player power gone too far? of course it has with players holding clubs to ransom and then refusing to play if they dont believe in the managers philosophy which normally means they aint getting picked so they spit the dummy...Sarri has had his legs chopped off yesterday by backing down and letting the player stay on the pitch...how can he continue after the world saw that...moanrino has form for it but players shown they are prepared too down tools unless they get there way Puel by dropping vardy was only going to end one way with the player openly questioning the manager and he too has paid the price with a string of bad results and the players again not buying into what the manager wants.
Sarri by letting the GK stay on undermined his own position he is the Boss what he says goes and any respect players may of had for him is gone....

We constantly hear that line from El Pel and he gets very annoyed and frustrated when our players perform as they do against wimbledon/bournemouth/wolves and so on so what can he do too change those players who simply refuse to not believe in his idea and do not believe a club like ours can or ever will be able to perform like a big club which in El Pels mind is to go out regardless of the opposition and go to win not snatch a draw or roll over and let the other team win.
The reason Teams like citeh etc win is because there managers refuse to accept and think of any other result and yes of course they have top top players but have you noticed that any who are not producing are simply out of the side no matter who they are and such ruthlessness has worked on the likes of Aguerro/sane//sterling all household names and walk into any side but they had a rude awakening and if you don't produce on the pitch you are out and that drove those players on now to be better than they ever were.
If players perform and get beat this you accept as the other team on the day were better than you but players going out already beaten before a balls been kicked is totally unacceptable and try as he might with some of our current squad we simply do not produce enough decent displays specially away from home so where will he start the culling in the long summer ahead? and where does he find the players he wants with the mindset he wants to produce a much more consistent side? injuries of which we have had and get too many El Pel has a big summer ahead reshaping and revamping certain parts of the squad if he expects next season too be any different to this one after all it is WEST HAM.

The weird part about the Daily Express’ claim that Tottenham want to sign Declan Rice is that they suggest he will be a replacement for the outgoing Christian Eriksen.

They tell us ‘Spurs are preparing for the possible exit’ of the Dane, and that ‘Rice has been on Tottenham’s radar for some time’. Yeah, but not as a creative midfielder.

Anyway, West Ham apparently ‘face a battle’ to keep Rice despite him signing a five-and-a-half-year contract at the club two months ago. Liverpool want him and Manchester United have previously been linked, but it is Spurs who are ready to firm up their interest with a £35m offer.

As an aside, that bid is mentioned only in the headline, not in the actual story body. Seems legit.

Heard an interesting thought about this whilst in the shower listening to Talksh**e this morning and it is all about the revenues that can be made from new tv deals etc and when asked what his thoughts were Simon Jordan i think made a number of peoples jaws drop when he said that the Premier League should become like the Netflix site and have there own channel and have subscribers pay £8/10 a month too watch the Premier league now he estimated with its worldwide popularity compared to other leagues around the world you could be looking at potentially making and eye watering £10billion a year A YEAR not like now £8.25 billion over3/4 years and i just wondered yeah that sounds great but what will happen to the rest of football in this country because the prem certainly would not want to be sharing that kind of income with lower league football and sky/bt/amazon? etc would not fork out anywhere near the kind of money they do now too show lower league football and it could ruin the game here for everyone.
Simon Jordan voiced this and i am pretty sure people are even now crunching the numbers or have been for a while to see how viable this would be and if the projection is anywhere near what he Predicts we could see the game transform once more in front of our eyes.

So the players got some measure of respect back after actually turning up for a match for the first time in a couple of bad weeks the question is will they do it at Palace on saturday? the worry is they dont and palace without i believe Zaha for the game(overrated imo)will be looking at our last 3 away matches 2 goals scored 9 conceded and must be thinking 3 points there for the taking and unless we start from the first whistle that will probably happen! not going to mention injuries and who or who may or may not play but the one thing that those players who do start saturday at 3pm(bygone era makes me weep and nostalgic)have to understand that the liverpool games in the past and as much energy and intensity must be shown for this match as any other...got many a friend who are Palace fans and they think we are easy prey right now and any kind of effort by Palace will be enough to see us off....Palace Palace who the Fu*k are Palace is my retort i do hope come 5pm saturday that West ham prove me right COYI