Fat Lady Starting to Sing

Well what was that all about? Bit pointless turning up really if we're going to play like that. I think we are all agreed that this looks like the end of the road for the Premiership this season. But if Curbishley is going to be so negative about the whole thing then how in Hell can you expect any different from the players?
Pardew on the other hand is giving out positive vibes all the time, and listening to the players, the Charlton boys are all fired up for the battle ahead.
In my 41 years as a Hammers fan, in all our other relegation battles (Yes. Even the Roeder season) I believed we could escape. I saw the teams fighting. I saw a game plan of sorts, desire, passion and a belief in the players and the manager that we were not going to go down. Curbishley on the other hand is all doom and gloom, with comments such as this is a "must win" game. Well excuse me Alan, but I happen to think ALL fcuking games are a must win game. And now the Fat Lady is walking up to the microphone getting ready to sing, maybe we can have a go at winning whats left of the most dire West Ham season I've ever had the misfortune to have been involved in.
For my part I'd like to see Curbishley walk away from this club he claims to love so much, but more likely he will wait for the sack and become and instant millionaire like the other managers here who got the boot. Jeepers, where else can so much money be earnt for being such a failure

Big Mouth

I see Eggert has just reportedly slagged off Alan Pardew according to that quality newspaper, The News of the World: "The key factor was that something was just not right in the dressing room" says our Biscuitman
Well thats as maybe. Personally I'd have waited till we had beaten Charlton before opening my big gob like that wouldn't you? Maybe Eggert will end up with egg on his face?

And while I'm on the subject, who's supposed to be in charge here anyway? The manager or the players? I mean....Curbishley is doing really great eh?

Mucky Tabloids

Ensconced happily on the Royal Shitter at work where the mucky tabloids end up for the common people to read are left, I noticed that the Daily Mirror is kicking off again at West Ham. Having happily dug the knives in for Alan Pardew, they devoted three whole back pages to picking on Curbs and the players. Admittedly there were lots of pictures for those who can't read properly. Its quite amazing where some of these stories generate and even more so how small the apologies are, like the recent story over Shevchenko being a snitch to his boss, when it is proved to be a total fabrication.

Anyone who looks at the BBC 606 Have Your Say site will know that I said Curbishley was not the man for the job before we took him on, but the fact is we're stuck with him at the moment, and after the Watford game things are looking truly awful. With that in mind Wigan are NOT uncatchable yet so I think we should ALL PULL TOGETHER. That is the fans, the players and the management. Lets get out of this shit and come the end of the season safely tucked up for another year in the Premiership, then, and only then, start kicking off, leaving, sacking or throwing tantrums.
Starting with our next game against Charlton lets get behind the team with non stop vocal support, and players, lets have a response. Lets Blow those bloody Bubbles.

Up or Down?

Twiddling my thumbs here this afternoon I decided to try to predict the results of ours and our closest rivals matches to the end of the season. I don't normally do this till the Easter period when all sorts of permutations can be made, and realistically you know what sort of team you can field. Who knows Carroll might break a leg giving Green a chance again and Ashton will start playing tomorrow.(Flying pigs etc).
Anyway, we have played 26 games and amassed a hefty 20 points. This is, of course, half the magic figure of 40 points which seems to be the accepted safety net. So we need 20 points from twelve games........ three of which are against Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, so shall we say 20 points from 9 games? See where I am going with this?
Added to the fact that I fully expect Charlton to turn us over, probably with Darren Bent getting a hat-trick after Reo Coker gets sent off in the first half with Pardew doing an over elaborate celebration in front of Biscuit man.
Mind you...I never have been very good at predictions.

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?

Olympic Stadium

According to yesterdays report from the totally unbiased BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/6320267.stm it would appear that after the olympics the Olympic Stadiums capacity will be cut from 80,000 to 25,000 which is some 10,000 less than Upton Park can hold at the present. This news means that the stadium will not be a feasible or viable option for West Ham no matter what the biscuit man wants. Now, I dont really have a problem with this as I have no desire for the club to leave Upton Park, and seeing as we have planning permission already for extending the East Stand feel that that is the way forward.
My problems run like this:-, Who in their right minds would build an 80000 seater stadium for one event?
Who would build an 80000 seater stadium and then take 55000 seats away afterwards?
This surely is another example of the utmost stupidity that can only come from a person like a politically motivated one. Brains are not a requirement.
Biscuit man should really stay away from people like that, but I dont doubt the physical value of the Upton Park ground as a building development has already been valued up.

You've been warned.

Upson

So the Upson deal is now done and dusted which means when fit we will have 6 centerbacks to call on. Collins, Davenport, Ferdinand, Gabbidon, Dailly and now, Upson which is a bit more than Chelsea have by all accounts. Point I'm asking -is who is going to be the best pairing? I thought we only got Davenport because it didnt look like we were going to get Upson, who, incidentally, in my opinion, is the only half decent signing Curbs has done. Come on be honest. We all go out and buy in the January sales stuff that we regret. Usually with our own money though. For my part in all this, I'd go for Upson and Gabbidon.