Morning Hammers

And what a poxy morning it feels , the chance to go 5 pints clear last night and as per usual We fucked it up . Five finguck one against a lower league team they should be hanging their heads in shame this morning and I hope Big Sam gives them a right bollocking and sorts this bloody mess out . This is just not good enough if we want automatic promotion , there is too many teams within a good chance of overtaking us , Saints seem to be having problems at the mo but brum and the sheep shagers are right up our arse . Sort it out Sam we want the chumps league title

Nicked from the Telegraph


The self-titled Academy of Football tends to produce its own starlets. On transfer deadline day it gambled on one from the mighty Manchester United youth factory as 18-year-old Ravel Morrison laid down his baggage at West Ham in the hope of turning his life around.

One of the most gifted United young midfielders since Paul Scholes, Morrison dropped from the Premier League to the Championship and passed from the care of Sir Alex Ferguson to Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager: a mentor to some of the game’s more awkward and unusual characters.

Morrison passed his medical on Tuesday after an initial reported fee of £650,000 rising to £1million had been agreed with United. Newcastle United was his other possible refuge but for once he is thinking several steps ahead. Sources close to the deal say Morrison is desperate to play regularly to help keep him out of trouble – and believes he can achieve a regular starting place in a side who are hot favourites for promotion.

Either way, Morrison’s rejection by Manchester United is a rare setback for a club who have framed their identity around guiding the best boys from the training fields of Carrington to the turf of Old Trafford.

But Morrison is not like Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville or Scholes. Witness intimidation and a dispute with his girlfriend that ended with her mobile phone being thrown through a window are on his police file and magistrates have warned him he will go to jail if he offends again.

Away from the courts Morrison was frequently AWOL for training and used Twitter to express disdain for a club awards dinner and anger at what he saw as his lack of first-team opportunities. Ferguson’s coaches gave up on him: a rare acceptance of defeat at a club where youth cultivation is a religion.

Morrison scored twice in the 2011 FA Youth Cup win over Sheffield United and dazzled observers with his poise and skill. Two days later he was being fined £600 for throwing his girlfriend’s phone. At 15 he scored in an FA Youth Cup tie against Chelsea and made his first-team debut in 2010 in the Carling Cup against Wolves.

But his disciplinary lapses blocked his path and now Allardyce has invited him to settle in a stable team coasting towards promotion. He said: “Ravel is a talented lad and if he really wants to be a player then we will help him as much as we can along the way. Perhaps a change of environment will be beneficial to him and help him make that step up to first-team football quicker than perhaps would have been the case at Manchester United. There is no doubt he has exceptional talent.”

West Ham have always cleared space for free spirits and mavericks. Ian Bishop and Paolo Di Canio are just two examples of Upton Park idols who tended towards nonconformity.

Allardyce is a mostly functional coach who likes to roll a dice around the margins. He added Jay-Jay Okocha to a long-ball Bolton team and took Joey Barton to Newcastle. At West Ham he has dismissed the old conceit of losing prettily in favour of a more muscular and calculating approach. Over the summer — before Morrison and Ricardo Vaz Te entered his thoughts — Allardyce recruited the likes of Abdoulaye Faye, Kevin Nolan, Papa Bouba Diop and John Carew.

This romance-kicking pragmatism has propelled West Ham to the top of the Championship and the acquisition of Morrison is a cheap investment in the kind of midfield artistry the Hammers will need if they come back up in May. The initial risk runs to £650,000 and £10-£15,000 a week in wages. There is little danger of Morrison upsetting the promotion push. If he returned to his old ways the senior pros would merely ostracise him and plough on with their jobs.

Seldom do United’s educational and coaching programmes run into such insurmountable obstacles. Boys from deprived or troubled backgrounds are often transformed at Carrington. Many move successfully to lower league clubs.

The FA Youth Cup-winning player is especially valued. Matt Busby’s babes won the competition five times and Ferguson’s class of ’92 was the launch pad for David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Gary Neville and Giggs. Scholes and Phil Neville were also of that generation.

Morrison leaves behind Will Keane, Ryan Tunnicliffe and Paul Pogba, team-mates from last year’s victory over Sheffield’s Blades. The idea is that playing regularly will be his salvation while the move to London liberates him from the bad influences of his youth.

There will be no entourage heading south, his aides say: just a teenager with a nose for trouble and the kind of fluent, instinctive skills United have built a tradition around. Big Sam Allardyce loves a test. He will want the good angels on his side.

Morning all.

Bloody freezing in East London.

I want to know how in the hell they scored from OUR corner

morning all

lets hope our new boys can hit the ground running

bit chilly here in Hants

and Terry in the dock today

Just back from the gym, very very cold and dry here in Naarfolkshire, gonna get worse and I feel a real chill coming on, thats cos I'm a West Ham fan and we got f****d again last night

Good afternoon, peeps.

Cold but sunshiney here in Norf East Kent!

Morning all

a bitter -7 out there this morning

just seen a brass monkey crying his eyes out

Only -2 in a very sunny Naarfolkshire, but feels colder, heres to a good weekend, a good win over the pikeys, London Scottish to thrash Esher in the RFU Championship and England to whop the jocks in the Calcutta cup (great when you can play for both side sometimes )


COYI's

cant make the colour thingie w**k

I've told him!........Too complicated for the likes of us innit Motts....

i can select a colour but there is no way to execute that to the text head scratch smiley as there is no arse scratch smiley


edit i was being an arse

Jiggs wrote:I've told him!........Too complicated for the likes of us innit Motts....

What is it with you two , tsk . Its simples innit . You click on the " Colour box " and up comes a larger box , you adjust the colour you want with your mouse by pulling the two arrows in the narrow middle box up or down , then you can fine adjust in the least hand box with your mouse again , just move the little circle around . Then when you have the colour your happy with , click on the little coloured circle in the bottom left hand corner and you should have something that looks like this " " then just place your text in the middle of the two ][ . Cor blimey guvna

wot like this Boo

Got it now boss

:party:

that just leaves Jiggs to w**k out how to use the Dulux box now

That could be a job and a half

I'll pop round and help her wiv the paint pot!

Should,nt that be


FUCK ORF !!!