This is one game that I think everybody looks forward to. Two of the best teams in Europe giving their best. While the game wasn't too bad I couldn't get over the amount of diving and faking of injury in the game, it was embarrassing to watch. I watched the match with my father who is ninety this year and all he could do was laugh at the different incidents. Are they men or mice, he would say to me or, why is he holding his face when he got a tip on the shin. I couldn't answer him. It's beginning to creep into the Premiership and sometimes it would make me reach for the remote and watch something else. Its fast approaching wrestlingmania standards. It's not helped either when I saw Alan Shearer on motd one night giving his views on the awarding of a penalty, he came out with the statement if there is contact he's ENTITLED to go down. I always thought you went down when by the laws of gravity it was impossible to stay on your feet. The law makers will have to do something about it or else the ordinary punter will stop watching the game.

Essentially the FA are to tighten up work permits, reduce the number of non-EU players, and require the minimum number of homegrown players to be 12 out of the 25 man squad. And the definition of "Homegrown" will be tightened up too. I can see this as a double-edged sword. While we all might like to see more homegrown talent get a chance, this could affect West Ham adversely; the core of our first team now contains: Sakho, Valencia, Kouyate, Adrian. So what do you all think?

Sunderland match,I did not see it live only on MOTD.just highlights.Now I did not see any long ball fromWest Ham only from Sunderland as well as 2 penalty shouts which are regularly not given,but advercrap implied we use the long ball tactic and they could not play football (which is why they are 4th bottom).Please tell me what happened did we or not ?.

On Newsnow we're apparently linked with "Superstar" striker Adebayor and a deal is close to completion for the summer. So to whoever is sanctioning/persuing this deal here's my question. Are you (expletive) serious?

So Stevie G has apologised for his stamp (would he have done had it not been seen and he was not ordered from the field of play?) Skirtel stamped on De Gea erm hello SKY no mention of that one eh, I hope they both get the book thrown at them ... Skirtel has got away with thuggery for ages , Slippy as we all know is well past his sell by date and how on earth did he win over 100 England caps is English football really that bad? I hope teams in the States have shin guards tied to the goal posts because they will need them.

http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/the-best-sunday-league-quotes

made me laugh....

A way must be found to stop the clubs with almost infinite amounts of cash from simply buying up all the best players. I watched Man City v West Brom yesterday, and the gulf in class was ridiculous. Admittedly the Baggies had a man sent off early, but it was like watching a practice game: defenders against attackers. West Brom, literally, barely even got out of their own half, and had one chance in the whole game, City had 26 chances in the first half alone!

Refereeing decision are getting ridiculous. We all witnessed the abysmal performance of the ref in our match yesterday but other matches had the same ridiculous decisions. In particular the Palace game where Palace were given a penalty even though the keeper didn't foul the attacker who should have been booked for high feet anyway.

This was the answer to the goal scoring problem Westham were experiencing last season,the appointment of Teddy Sheringham to work with the forwards.A top striker who has played at the highest level and who knows a thing or two about scoring.This was Sullivan's comments on the appointment:

West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan insists Teddy Sheringham's arrival as attacking coach does not undermine the position of manager Sam Allardyce - but admits the club must target a top-six finish.

The Irons' board backed Allardyce following showdown talks in the summer sparked by a campaign which ended in 13th place, but only after a late pull clear of the relegation scrap.

Sullivan believes 48-year-old former England international Sheringham, who enjoyed a three-season spell as a player at Upton Park, can bring a cutting edge to the team and work well alongside the manager, who sustained a third campaign in the Barclays Premier League following promotion via the 2012 play-off final.

"Yes, we suggested the idea, but Sam liked it. We didn't undermine him at all," Sullivan said in the Daily Mirror.

"We had a lot of people approach us to become our attacking coach and Sam picked the one he wanted.

"I think he has analysed the performance of the team last year and agreed that we would like to score more goals. It was a weakness of the team and he has brought in an expert to try and improve that.

At present Westham are the 8th highest scorers in the league with 40 goals..Of that number 29 goals were scored in 17 games before Christmas,but only 11 goals in 13 games since then.Over that same period Westham conceded 18 goals in 17 games and 19 goals in 11 games.It was looking very bright up until Christmas, Westham were playing some of the best football fans have watched in a long ,long time and then it all starts falling apart,the results ,the performances apart from a few exceptions,and the slide down the table.So what has gone wrong ?

I knew I'd seen the name Lee Mason in the headlines before ! He made a horrendous decision in sending off Gabriel Agbonlahor, which was immediately overturned, and he's one of 4 referees who have been said should be axed by former top class referee Keith Hackett as not fit for purpose.