Aston Villa 1 West Ham 0

So another three points down the pan. I would have liked to have written what I thought was going to happen but I couldn't get the team sheet early enough. The fact that Harewood was the only sub on the bench tells me that Curbishley had no intention of "going for it", even worse was that when he came on he took Kepa off. Belatedly Etherington came on for Boa Morte but as in the past we had to chase the game. Admittedly I only saw the highlights but that was enough. The Upson injury is a fiasco. If you were writing a fictional football story with centerback injuries like that it would be scrubbed as too unbelievable.
It also seems that our voices at Upton Park for Greens reinstatment in goal has been heard. Apparantly as Curbishley says you can hardly not hear it and reports of a bust up between the pair are just not true. So he obviously is in the minority who thinks Carroll is better.
So on to next week with Watford. With Charlton and and Wigan away to Manchester United and Arsenal the points against Watford assume greater significance. I wonder if Curbs will pick Shaun Newton again?