WHUFC vs Burnley -- March 9th, 2018

holy shit...

I was just about to say 'can it get any worse'

then a long range shot comes in... Hart goes down but doesn't hold it.. spill it out and of course only a Burnley player is bothering to run in and the ball is in the back of the net... 0-3

of course, of course... make all the excuses you want for Hart... he's completely useless...

more fans are on the pitch... other fans are leaving the stadium...

the game is on pause...

we restart...

oh I cannot wait for the post match comments from Noble, Moyes, etc...

David sullivan has left the building... well not quite... but he's gone now...


we do have some nicely printed signs... someone spent a bob or two on those...

can't see if Gold is standing strong

He was... but even he's had enough now...

not sure whether he's more pissed at the fans or the players.

85 minutes gone - Hope left a while back

I'll be honest... I'd pay for sullivan to leave if I could.

Never liked him and never will

Gold I actually think is a decent bloke... but sully holds the reigns and owns the majority of the club... so he's the one to look at.

Sir Trevor is still sitting n the now almost deserted Directors box... there better be nothing aimed in his direction.


Long ball over the top is too far for Arnie to reach - yes.. there is still a football game going on... thee's only 2 minutes left on the clock and there'll be a bit of extra for all the crowd nonsense...

but the fact remains... we get out of this game exactly what we put in...

and there you have it...

the whistle goes...

boos ring out around the stadium

this will cost us big in pretty much every way you can think of

3 defeats on the spin... 11 goals conceded in those games...

Arnie still out on the pitch, hands on hips.. hinge looks totally defeated...

there's plenty of people who need to take a long hard look in the mirror

I wondered who all the west ham fans wee applauding... turns out it's the Burnley team walking off... we just can't hate anyone in claret and blue


this was a disaster... and a disaster completely of our own making.

Burnley weren't great... they weren't three goals better... we were just that bad... that uninterested, that caught napping, that lacking in ideas and invention... that unable to manage even a half-hearted effort...


i know we've all been through this before... but if you think you've seen us at rock bottom... you ain't sen nothing yet...

FULL-TIME
West Ham 0-3 Burnley
A controversial day, marred by crowd disturbances, is over. The postmortem at West Ham will be brutal.

Burnley are back to being Burnley it seems, following last week's win over Everton with a fine away triumph.

'Fury of West Ham fans palpable'
West Ham 0-3 Burnley
Andy Rowley
BBC Radio London commentator
The level of fury is palpable. About 50 deep now, the West Ham fans who have their back turned on the game. People climbing up the barriers towards the owner, wanting to sack the board.

'You've destroyed our club' is one of the chants that can be heard.


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'Ire and antagonism at West Ham'
West Ham 0-3 Burnley

Bradley Allen
Ex-QPR striker on BBC Radio London
David Sullivan and David Gold have been forced to leave their seats now. I don't know whether they'll swerve the situation now or make a statement to try to ease the ire and antagonism amongst the supporters. West Ham have got five more home fixtures before the end of the season so it bodes for an even more uncomfortable atmosphere. As a club, they cannot afford to be relegated from the Premier League.

8:41
GOAL - West Ham 0-3 Burnley
Chris Wood
It's a dark Joe Hart moment and an even darker one for West Ham as more fans make their way onto this pitch as a third goal goes in.

Johann Berg Gudmundsson has a bang, Hart fumbles and Chris Wood turns home his second since coming on.

There is anger everywhere you look, not least across the face of Hart, who is playing a league game for the first time since November having been kept out of the side.
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West Ham are still three points above the relegation zone but the story of the day will be the fallout of pitch invasions, an awful second-half performance and a raging hatred of the owners, who were forced to leave the ground when it went to 3-0. Things really are toxic at the club now. Can they survive?


What a day in the Premier League! It might be forgotten in all this West Ham mess, which we will come to, that Newcastle have made a great stride towards survival. They were by far the better team from start to finish as Southampton showed they are really in a rut.

well... as someone once said... it's been emotional.

good talking to you all...

off to make a cup of tea and wait for the on air post mortem of this shit show...

maybe we should all ditch this place and join the West Ham facebook group... it's a mighty fun place... lots of intelligent, well rounded individuals happy to debate the pros and cons of football and all this West Ham..

it's like every single aspect of anything attached to this club is just an embarrassing dumpster fire...

Burnley did the decent thing... no, they didn't decide to play kids against us out of sympathy...

they actually let kids leave the stands and sit on their bench because of the fighting in the stands...

it'd be nice if Hart could hold onto the ball as well as he holds onto Noble...

From the Offish:

West Ham United have immediately launched a full and thorough investigation into the incidents which marred the second half of today's match and are committed to taking decisive and appropriate action.

An emergency meeting has been called with all London Stadium stakeholders. There will be no further comment at this time.


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interesting article from the Independent...

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some of the wit from the twitter...