West Ham United FC V Spurs

Incidentally does Diame ever attack people or does he always try to do a drag back and lose the ball?

Yeeeeeeees, get in,
I said it was a training ground move so Carroll missed the free kick, went for the corner and we scored
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirons !!

Adrian gets clean clearance... but can't even get the ball to the halfway line... we should stop him kicking the ball.

ooooh....

dined cross into the area... just misses the player on the far post

corner to West Ham

Noble to take.

why haven't we played with this much bite in the last 9 or 10 games?

do we save it just for the spuds?

oooh.. solid midfield... cuts out a spuds attack...

ball comes out wide to the left... it always does... not sure why we get away with the same thing over and over again...

ball looped in... Loris gathers.

Spuds trying to play it out from the back.

I'm glad Reid's back in the team.

Jeez... Loris just edges Nolan... blah balh,,, shot comes in low and hard... Loris just tips it round the post

quick corner... Reid hustling in the pop corner and we get it back out for another Downing corner... or was it? no... spuds free kick for something or other

nice run form Diame

end with throw to us pop the spuds penalty area

e're definitely the better team at the moment... but will it last?

not looking forward to one of our regular second half slumps.

It's great to see the team playing with this uch bite... but in a way that just makes it so much more frustrating that they've been so piss poor recently.


Does it really take a London derby and/or the last home game of the season for them to actually bother?



Good save from Loris. Despite the Loris being the cutest and slowest animal on the planet... the goalkeeping version is all over the shop and keeping spuds in the game.

Nice to Noble running at people through the middle and on the floor!

And that's why we should do it more often Sam! !

why're all the Championship games lunch time kick offs?

can't the powers that be leave things alone and let footie be footie?

Spuds with a succession of throws down by our touchline...

we're defending in numbers but Spuds are trying hard

we have the ball back in midfield and a throw to us on the halfway line.

we need to keep this tempo going... it's got spuds a bit rattled

if we slack off they could come back into this

yellow card as Dawson clatters Noble on the edge of the box... nice... get all their defense of cards... then keep pummeling them.

free kick to us on the edge of the box...

Carroll to take again?

what the fupp?

while everyone is watching Carrol... Downing steps up and almost passes the ball into the net...

He seemed almost as surprised as everyone else....

the ball went straight through the wall... what a lard...

2-0 to the cockney boys...

I'm actually feeling ok about having had no sleep and being up at the - not even - butt crack of dawn...

holy crumbs... Carroll digs the ball out from under him and his shot from the edge of the area just slips past Loris' post...

we HAVE to keep this up.

This is how you play, this is how you WIN.

please don't fupp it up at half time...

we're 2-0 up

the spuds are down to ten men

c'mon... let's do this!!!!!!

Pleased with the 1st half ...... squirts up to their usual dirty play , more yellows and maybe one more red for the 4x,s , dont bugger this up now West Ham ...... more of the same in the 2nd please  

watching the replays of the goals at half time...

priceless headed own goal for our first...

but the 2nd takes the biscuit.

watch it wherever you can but the looks on Paulinho and Adebayor's faces as they both turn away from Downing's shot and let the ball, waist high, fly between them and into the empty goal...

shockingly horrible from a defensive point of view but absolutely hilarious from everyone else's

I'm pretty chuffed so far...   

West Ham 2-0 Tottenham
BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra summariser Bradley Allen at Upton Park: "West Ham's intensity and application has been far superior - this could easily have been three, four, five or even six-nil. They have been right in control from the very first whistle. Spurs have been sloppy defensively - and since the red card they have fallen away. West Ham will be delighted with what they have seen."

I'm not sure I'd go as far as 5 or 6... but we're good value for the lead and that's all I care about.

Of course... we can't win for losing... and if it keeps as it is, then ManUre have the potential to get into Europe by winning their last three games...

But pleeeeeeeeeeeease... football really needs ManUre not to have any european football... or spuds... is that really too much to ask?

2nd half underway and we're kicking towards the south bank, I mean, Bobby Moore stand.

what is Adrian doing running out towards the corner flag and leaving an open goal?

fortunately Spuds can't even whip a ball into the box...

49 minutes gone...

free kick to us in the middle of our half... Adrian takes

Diame tap dancing in the area but is eventually bundled off the ball

good Loris save - again. this time from a Diame(?) bicycle kick

Just going to quote Michael Owen for posterity "Sensational football from West Ham!"

corner to us.

everything seems to be played in front of the west stand.... so Jarvis gets all the action in the first half and Downing in the second... it's predictable as hell but Spuds don't seem to have any answers today

Nolan unmarked... six yards out... awesome save from Loris who is looking rightfully pissed at his defense...

Spuds are trying, I guess, but they really don't have much of a clue today.

brilliant run down the wing by Downing (see earlier) but then a dreadfully weak pass robs us of a great shooting chance.

we're still well on top but really should be getting another one of those goal things...

heh heh.. piss poor "shot" from Spuds.


the crowd seem very happy.

Do you really think there'll be a Geordie walk out at Cardiff today? (yeah, sure.. let's get Pardew back)


Adrian isn't having one of his best days... spills an easy cross around the post for a Spuds corner.

We clear it... spuds throw

30 minutes to go to complete a memorable third victory over the spuds...

blimey... an attack in front of the chicken run... very unusual, but nice to see.

free kick to us... kinda midway in their half...

Low shot from Taylor is smothered by Loris.

funny old game. Loris is playing a blinder and they're losing.

Adrian is having a bit of a mare and we're quite comfortably on top.

Another Spuds shot into row Z

subs warning up for Spuds...

Paulinho off
Soldano - on

Sandro - on
Siggurson - off

corner to west ham - noble

another corner to west ham - downing

we get it back from midfield and Noble can't curl it back in like he wants so it loops way over the goal.

halfway thru the second half...