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got home from a long days work on the road and my son Harry comes running up to me and says 'dad! dad! mum's bought us a present - tickets for the Chelsea Game at Upton Park. BEAMING SMILE ALL OVER HIS FACE! she spent 50 minutes on the phone this morning bless her. luv her to bits
Looking for a ticket for Watford away if anyone has a spare.
Please let me know lads!
Can we talk about beating City, Liverpool and Arsenal a bit more, I haven't had enough yet?!
So, 6 games in, we're on 12 points. What now? 28 points to safety or 78 to become champions?
The Newcastle game (and the Boys of '86) reminded me of the night that we won 8-1. I was walking him from youth club with a West Ham supporting mate, and we were discussing whether or not this could be our year. In those days, it wasn't a pipe dream. If there was a 'big four' in those days, they didn't have a monopoly on the league and certainly not in the cups. In recent years Forest had won the league and Villa the European cup. Anything and everything was possible.
I have watched with dismay as the money has flowed in to top tier football and how it has created a divide where small clubs from the TOP DIVISION winning something is an upset and if they do dare to have a good season, they are mercilessly stripped by both the big clubs and mercenary agents.
Having said that, I have never lost that faith, albeit it has usually been vastly misplaced. This season though, we seem to have a team that can not only give anyone a game, but also a strength in depth that I have never ever seen in a West Ham team, I mean c'mon, our record £15m striker was an unused sub! On that note, BFS would probably have stuck him on in the second half against City, rationalising by saying that we could have lumped the ball up to him to relieve the pressure. Instead, we relied on pace and intelligence along with our backs to the wall defending.
So, a great team, quality depth, a tactically astute away formation and an amazing start to the season. All the newbies seem to have settled.
Has it revised where you think we will finish. Bear in mind everyone else's start as well. Liverpool, Spuds and Southampton have stuttered, whilst Swansea and bizarrely Leicester are right up there.
My fiver (and my heart) had us as champions at the beginning of the season. My head would have been happy with 10th again.
Now? I want 5th. Realistically Citeh, Chelski, Arsenal and Man Utd will finish above us. Can we maintain form and stay ahead of Spurs and Liverpool? Overtake Southampton and Swansea?
Bilic seems to have a system in place that works well away, I know we won't always win and he seems to have learnt from the mistakes at home.
So depsite early days and forget the 'party line' of securing our Premier League status for the all important debut system at the Olympic, after those three incredible away wins, what do you want us to achieve this season?
Bwahahaha... Lawro the mug put us down for a loss this weekend - look at him trying to big up Liverpoo's draw v Norwich! He really is a desperate and deluded man:
I, like many other fans would like to see us have a decent cup run this season and considering our depth this appears to be the season. However I would rather us go for the FA cup rather than the League Cup. Anyway considering that the team just won an exhausting encounter at the Etihad against City the question becomes who starts against Leicester. Unfortunately for us Jelavic and Antonio are cup tied. This would have been a great opportunity to get them out and playing. I fully expect Randolph, Collins, Oxford, Zarate and Carroll to start. We may even see game time for Hendrie and Cullen. However if we throw out a team of youngsters and barely fit players we could struggle against Leicester so what 11 do we pick??
I cannot believe it MOTD actually gave us praise...begrudgingly but praise and Shearer was apoplectic about his beloved Necastle...also can I just give massive praise to the way Super Slav conducts himself and interviews...a real breath of fresh air and brings a huge amount of gravitas, honesty and morality to our club and indeed the premier league.
Quck up date after 6 league and Euro games..... Moi (Plaistow) £1 per goal ..... £21 for Great Ormond St. Hospital.
Burkie 10 euros pre penalty for and against .... 20 euros for Dogs Trust , Ireland.
NT Hammer £10 for every place above relegation.... (thus far looking at £160 for Make a Wish Foundation)
Bullyhammer £1 a point ..... £12 for McMillan Nurses !
So far well done guys .. any more takers?
With our terrific start to the season and who would have predicted 3 away wins out of 3 (only our second win at The Emirates "first since the great escape season", our first win at Anfield in 53 years and our first ever win against the Billionaires of Man. City at The Etihad) 3 huge wins against 3 sides that finished above us last season and two of those were top four finishers. Now I've got the obvious out of the way my concerns are how long before the so called "Big Boys" come sniffing around Reid, Payet, Adrian, Tomkins... ? but my biggest concern is how long before we play sides who will try and kick us off the pitch? we all know that will come around at some time. I am over the (Blue) moon at our start and hat's off to Allardyce, Gold, Sullivan and Brady for keeping hold of Winston Reid who must be the Leagues top performer so far (I know it's only 6 games) Arsene must be wishing he offered a lot more than £4m for his services. The board will be busy but we seem to have a happy camp with a team ethic and well done Slaven Billic who seems to have found a style that suits and is having some meaningful success , very happy, very proud and it will make going into work on Monday all the more pleasurable.
Beating Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City!
Up to second in the league.
Soak it up fellas!!!
Both kumb and who Fans are saying kouyate hasnt travelled to the city game and is out for 2 weeks