Chelsea and Liverpool
****s
Yes needed win that
Got Chelsea and yids soon
Bring them on

Pleasing performance. Bowen made a huge difference. Haller enjoyed having Antonio and Bowen doing the hard yards.

Never seen Fab have such a quiet day.

Not usually keen on the programme but today’s had good articles on Jimmy Greaves and Paul Allen.

The BT documentary on Jimmy Greaves is superb. What a player and an inspiration re his battles with booze.

They showed his goals at Maine Road that day sparrow.

Bollox out Brady mouth
Play rest of the season later in year
If needs be
Finish what’s been started ffs
We go down cos been **** 95% of the season
So be it

Who the f@ck does she think she is ....

Sounds more like Sullivan to me... with his hand up her @rse and without moving his lips...

More important things to bother about than what Brady says or doesn't say ffs.
Even though everyone loves to hate the woman who the hell cares anyway?

Wembley? At least we’ll be closer to the pitch.

Sparrow..

Could you put up a fresh list of what we can comment on or discuss... Thanks.

Bet YOU dont want to renegotiate a new Deal...

I'll also bet Sadiq would love to discuss it....

Tom Kershaw @trlkershaw
Thursday 18 October 2018


West Ham’s vice-chairman Karren Brady says the club would consider buying the London Stadium after it was reported that it was losing £20 million per year.

West Ham pay an index-adjusting annual rent which is currently around £3 million, however, the stadium is projected to lose £140 million over the next decade.

The stadium's owners, London Legacy Development Corporation, claimed each West Ham match day costs taxpayers £250,000, but Brady responded by saying the club's offers to help have been dismissed.

"I refuse to accept any criticism that our rent is too low, because that is simply not the case. Costs are too high.

"We would like more control over our matchdays, no one knows how to do that more than us. When we first wanted to move in, we offered to buy the stadium, and we would have been responsible for all costs and that was rejected.

"The amount of expertise that we could give to (landlords) E20 to realise the potential in the naming rights, for example, which is a big part of missing revenue for them, has been disregarded.

"A naming rights sponsor is not interested on the outside of a building, they're interested in the massive global audience the Premier League club generates.

"I think the London Stadium craves direction. I think it should be a jewel in the crown for London, it should be hosting events 365 days a year."

West Ham want to convert the stadium into a full-time football ground which can host occasional events and increase the seating capacity to 60,000. That would come at a cost of £323, although the original forecast was £190 million.

The retractable seating, in particular, which allows for the Olympic Stadium's athletics track has proven to be a serious financial burden and the club has been involved in further disputes over the sale of alcohol and stewarding at the stadium.

If they were to buy the ground, Brady says West Ham wouldn't want to take on the stadium's pre-existing sponsorship agreements and find themselves laboured in the same predicament as the current owners, although the matter is yet to be formally discussed by the board.

"(Buying the stadium is) certainly something we would look at. I think if it was to become a dedicated football stadium, with pop concerts and maybe the occasional rugby match that could be a really seriously good proposition.

"The problem for this stadium is the cost of the seat moves for athletics. That is what drains the proposition of all of its revenue."

"It really should have the commercial expertise it deserves, it should have the financial controls it so readily needs, it does need investment.

"The Premier League generates enormous amounts of sponsorship revenue and this is a wonderful stadium. There is lots of great stadia in this country but there isn't one as iconic as the ex-Olympic Stadium.

"I would have thought it would be relatively easy to sell.

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Footballer that’s gave his monthly wage away
The last 3 years

Top bloke mark noble tells it how it is

West Ham still suffering from Co-owner virus

^^^^^^^^^^ says the poster who takes their username from one such product

David Moyes is taking a voluntary 30% pay cut at West Ham to help the club through the financial problems caused by the coronavirus crisis.

Moyes is the third Premier League manager known to have agreed a wage reduction, after Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe and Brighton’s Graham Potter.

The move comes as talks continue at top-flight clubs, also involving the Professional Footballers’ Association, with a view to reducing player wages at a time when income streams have dried up.

West Ham have not furloughed any staff and plan to inject at least £30m into the club by launching a rights issue.

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How many of you knew this?


A quirk alluded to in this Jacob Steinberg piece caught the eye of Justin Horton, namely that last season marked the first since 1986 that West Ham ended a top-flight season with a positive goal difference. “Can any readers come up with longer negative-goal-difference sequences than the Irons have accomplished?” he asks.

The thing is reynard to listen to some people our last season at Upton Park was a roaring success

I'm dreaming of a Frank Lampard
Just like the one at Elland Road
The ball came over
And Frank fell over
And scored the ****ing winning goal

40 years ago tonight, one of my football following highlights, memories vague now but remember the goals, being pulled up into the seats above the standing area at full time, something kicking off in the coach park after, getting dropped off by the coach at Upton Park at some unearthly hour and starting to walk home and some kind chap picking us up and dropping us in Hornchurch, stroke of luck that was... the most vivid memory of that night was the noise the Everton fans made when Bob Latchford equalised, never thought we'd recover from that, until Frank popped up, what was he doing up there anyway?

Being starved of any action I thought I would post this story of a match played by our best ever team in our best ever season.


The forgotten story of ... Alvin Martin's hat-trick past three goalkeepers

On 21 April 1986 the West Ham defender scored a historic treble against an injury-ravaged Newcastle in an 8-1 win at Upton Park




On 21 April 1986 West Ham welcomed Newcastle United for the 37th and, as it turned out, most memorable match of their greatest league campaign. They were fifth in the table but with genuine title pretentions, holding as they did between two and four games in hand on those above them, and had won six of their past eight matches.

Newcastle’s previous seven games had featured 30 goals at an average of 4.3 each and the Guardian’s chief football writer, David Lacey, in his report on their relatively dreary 1-1 draw at Chelsea two days earlier, had concluded that “if Newcastle’s defence repeats its sluggish performance West Ham should net a shoal of goals”. It was quite the prediction: at Upton Park, in a state of complete, injury-enforced disarray, they conceded eight.


The match is most commonly remembered for Alvin Martin’s hat-trick, the first of his career and the first scored in the league against three different goalkeepers, and for the exuberant attacking of a West Ham team that would eventually miss out on the title by four points (and a bit of goal difference). “It was,” Robert Armstrong wrote in the Guardian, “an extraordinary performance even by the high standards of skill, pace and finishing power the Hammers set themselves.” But as that hat-trick statistic suggests, it was a night of wild misfortune for the visitors. As the Hammers’ Newcastle-born assistant manager Mick McGiven put it after the match: “United should forget all about the result – I can hardly remember a team having so much bad luck in one game.”

Jeff Clarke, an ever-present all season at the heart of defence, was out with a knee injury; Glenn Roeder, who had recently recovered from food poisoning, scored an own goal and conceded a penalty; Chris Hedworth, a 21-year-old academy graduate whose five previous first-team appearances had come at centre-half or right-back, was crowbarred into midfield; John Anderson started in defence but because of a strained achilles and with the team’s one permitted substitution used up ended hobbling uselessly on the right wing, unable to do such basic activities as running and kicking.

In goal, at least at the start, was Martin Thomas, who had suffered a shoulder injury in training in early March and missed seven games before coming back and promptly injuring the shoulder again. Gary Kelly, his back-up, had only just had his plaster removed following a knee operation and Kelly’s replacement, David McKellar, who arrived on loan from Hibernian having not played a first-team game for nine months, had picked up hip and groin injuries in that draw at Chelsea, forcing Thomas to prematurely return. “Really there was no way I should have been playing but it was a case of having to because Dave found that the hip injury he had picked up at Chelsea had spread to his groin,” Thomas said. “He could hardly walk.”

Thomas’s fragile fitness lasted all of two minutes, when he “landed awkwardly and tore all the muscles in my shoulder”. Two minutes later Hedworth fouled Neil Orr, Alan Devonshire floated a free-kick into the area and Martin volleyed in. In the 11th minute Ray Stewart’s long-range drive went through Thomas’s hands, then a similar if more central effort from Orr did likewise. Roeder’s backheeled own goal made if 4-0 at the interval, which was when Thomas gave up.

   

Peter Beardsley, who would occasionally play in goal during training sessions, volunteered to replace him but the manager, Willie McFaul, refused to allow it. “I was not prepared to throw in the towel,” he said. “I wanted him to stay where he was because there was always a chance that he could have pulled a goal back for us.” Hedworth was chosen instead. “I haven’t played in goal since I was a schoolboy, but I had injured my knee early in the game and I felt I had no alternative to give it a go,” he said.

Ten minutes later he fractured a collarbone in a collision with Tony Cottee; he persevered for a while, but after Martin headed in a 64th-minute corner he also gave up. He moved to left midfield, forming with Anderson the game’s all-time least mobile pair of wingers. “It took guts to do what he did,” said McFaul. “How he carried on does not bear thinking about.” (Three weeks later, and without making another appearance, Hedworth was released on a free transfer.)

Ironically it was only after Beardsley finally went in goal that Newcastle pulled a goal back, through Billy Whitehurst. It took until the 81st minute for West Ham to score their sixth, but the seventh came within two minutes and then the referee, Bob Hamer, spotted a handball from Roeder a few seconds after the restart. Stewart was the team’s official penalty taker, but Martin insisted he get a chance to complete his hat-trick.

“I got a rollicking from [the manager] John Lyall when we got back into the dressing-room,” he later said. “I’d never taken a penalty before. In fact, it was the only one I ever took in my career … I have to say, Peter did not fill me with fear as he stood there. I stared at the bottom left corner and stared again. He thought I was bluffing but that’s where I put it. He dived the wrong way.”


The match ended with West Ham’s fans serenading Beardsley with chants of “England’s No 1”, while Newcastle’s own supporters refused to let the scoreline deter them from celebrating an impressively gutsy if wildly unfortunate display. “All the lads had a go and in the circumstances I just wished we had kept it to five,” concluded McFaul.

For one visiting player the discomfort did not end with the final whistle: England were due to play Scotland at Wembley two days later, and Beardsley had arranged to stay with a friend in London in case Bobby Robson decided to call on him. With hindsight, however, he would probably have asked someone other than Alvin Martin.